| 21-1102 |
Oklahoma v. Shaynna Lauren Sims |
Oklahoma |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federalism indian-country native-american-rights non-indian-crimes state-prosecution tribal-sovereignty |
Whether a state has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country |
| 21-1160 |
Alfred Morin v. William Lyver, et al. |
First Circuit |
GVR |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection firearm-regulation gun-rights licensing-requirements misdemeanor-restrictions second-amendment standing state-regulation |
Whether a state can impose a lifetime ban on purchasing handguns against anyone who has been convicted of a nonviolent misdemeanor involving guns |
| 21-1190 |
Ramon Rios, III v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment arrest fourth-amendment home-search law-enforcement plain-view-doctrine protective-sweep surveillance warrantless-search |
Does the Fourth Amendment prohibit a warrantless protective sweep of a home following the arrest of a resident outside his home under surveillance? |
| 21-1210 |
Scott County, Tennessee v. Tammy Brawner |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process medical-care objective-standard pretrial-detainee pretrial-detention subjective-test |
Whether this Court should apply the subjective test for deliberate indifference set forth in Farmer v. Brennan to claims by pretrial detainees of inad… |
| 21-1215 |
Gun Owners of America, Inc., et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
2nd-amendment administrative-law agency-interpretation bump-stocks chevron-deference criminal-law criminal-statute firearms machinegun-definition rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation |
Whether the definition of 'machinegun' found in 26 U.S.C. §5845(b) is clear and unambiguous, and whether bump stocks meet that definition? |
| 21-1225 |
The Estate of Dillon Taylor, et al. v. Salt Lake City, Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights excessive-force jury law-enforcement material-dispute qualified-immunity summary-judgment tenth-circuit |
qualified-immunity |
| 21-1243 |
City of Oakland, California v. Oakland Raiders, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
antitrust-standing associated-general-contractors clayton-act judicial-limits lexmark-international proximate-cause prudential-balancing zone-of-interests |
May a court deny a plaintiff with an antitrust injury proximately caused by a defendant's antitrust violation a Clayton Act cause of action based on a… |
| 21-1256 |
Robert M. Athey, et al. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
american-rule attorney-fees common-law costs equal-access-to-justice-act federal-circuit fee-shifting statutory-interpretation |
Did a panel of the Federal Circuit err by entirely exempting the United States as a matter of law from liability for such fees and costs pursuant to t… |
| 21-1274 |
Bobby Lee Ingram v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
GVR |
Relisted (4) |
criminal-justice-reform district-court-discretion first-step-act judicial-discretion legal-developments retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court must or may consider intervening legal developments when deciding whether to impose a reduced sentence under Section 404(b) o… |
| 21-1283 |
Animal Science Products, Inc., et al. v. Hebei Welcome Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
antitrust antitrust-law federal-rule-44.1 foreign-conduct foreign-law judicial-interpretation prescriptive-comity sherman-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether U.S. courts may reinterpret the Sherman Act using a discretionary ten-factor balancing test under the doctrine of prescriptive comity |
| 21-1292 |
S. Baxter Jones v. City of Detroit, Michigan |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination public-entity rehabilitation-act respondeat-superior standing vicarious-liability |
Whether public entities can be vicariously liable for ADA-Title-II-violations |
| 21-1307 |
Santa Ana Healthcare & Wellness Centre, LP, et al. v. Rubyann Mondragon |
California |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
arbitration-agreement california-private-attorneys-general-act class-action employee-rights federal-arbitration-act iskanian-rule iskanian-v-cls-transport lamps-plus-v-varela representative-claims supreme-court-precedent |
Does the Federal Arbitration Act require enforcement of a bilateral arbitration agreement providing that an employee cannot raise representative claim… |
| 21-1310 |
Garnet Turner, et al. v. Allstate Insurance Company |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
appropriate-equitable-relief benefit-claims civil-action concrete-injury eleventh-circuit equitable-relief erisa erisa-section-502(a)(3) fraud-claims fraud-in-equity statute-of-limitations |
Did the Eleventh Circuit critically err by applying the limitations period at 29 U.S.C. § 1113(1)(A)? |
| 21-1313 |
Martin Gottesfeld v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
|
appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split due-process judicial-discretion judicial-recusal procedural-due-process speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether a different judge can make the requisite 'ends of justice' findings to support a continuance under the Speedy Trial Act |
| 21-1319 |
Mark Nordlicht and David Levy v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
credibility criminal-procedure discretion district-court-discretion evidence-weighing federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure jury-verdict new-trial new-trial-motion rule-33 standard-of-review witness-credibility |
Whether district courts have discretion to weigh the evidence, including the credibility of witnesses, when deciding to grant a new trial under Rule 3… |
| 21-1323 |
Fredy Omar Gonzalez Hernandez v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
None |
|
| 21-1327 |
Apple Inc. v. Qualcomm Incorporated |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
article-iii article-three-standing inter-partes-review license-agreement medimmune patent-challenge patent-validity qualcomm-dispute standing |
Whether a licensee has Article III standing to challenge the validity of a patent covered by a license agreement that covers multiple patents |
| 21-1333 |
Reynaldo Gonzalez, et al. v. Google LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (79) |
civil-rights communications-decency-act editorial-functions immunity information-content-provider interactive-computer-service section-230 targeted-recommendations |
Does section 230(c)(1) immunize interactive computer services when they make targeted recommendations of information provided by another information c… |
| 21-1340 |
Lynn D. Becker v. Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure contractual-consent federal-jurisdiction state-jurisdiction tribal-exhaustion tribal-sovereignty |
Whether a federal court may force a non-consenting, non-Indian plaintiff to exhaust his claims in tribal court |
| 21-1344 |
Christin Campbell-Martin and Adam Scott Leiva v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
|
and established the arrestee's identity secured the arrestee in a police car 4th-amendment arrest-search criminal-procedure established-identity false-identification fourth-amendment incident-to-arrest police-procedure probable-cause search-and-seizure search-incident-to-arrest secured-arrestee vehicle-search |
Whether police may search a vehicle incident to arrest when the officers have arrested a recent occupant for providing false identification, secured t… |
| 21-1346 |
Friends of Merrymeeting Bay, et al. v. Central Maine Power Company |
Maine |
Denied |
|
administrative-agency administrative-law civil-procedure federal-aviation-administration federal-preemption judicial-review no-hazard-determination regulatory-determination state-law |
Whether the issuance of a non-binding 'No Hazard Determination' by the Federal Aviation Administration preempts the application of state law, despite … |
| 21-1355 |
Santiago Alejandro Diaz-Esparza v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
None |
|
| 21-1357 |
James S. Tyler, III v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Louisiana |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
capital-defendant collateral-review criminal-procedure mccoy right-to-counsel sixth-amendment substantive-rule teague-bar |
Where a capital defendant objected to his attorney's concession of guilt, does the explicit text of the Sixth Amendment and longstanding right to coun… |
| 21-1360 |
Mike Kowall, et al. v. Jocelyn Benson, Michigan Secretary of State |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
candidate-qualifications civil-rights due-process electoral-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment legislative-restrictions political-participation standing term-limits |
Whether candidate qualifications should be subjected to heightened scrutiny |
| 21-1364 |
Mordechai Korf, et al. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
attorney-client-privilege civil-procedure department-of-justice filter-team government-attorneys judicial-review search search-and-seizure work-product-protection |
Whether filter-team procedures like the ones in this case are invalid because they undermine the attorney-client-privilege |
| 21-1368 |
Old Dominion Electric Cooperative v. PJM Interconnection, LLC |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
arising-under-jurisdiction civil-rights federal-preemption federal-regulatory-agency filed-rate-doctrine substantial-federal-question supremacy-clause tariff-regulation well-pleaded-complaint-rule |
Do state-law claims that allegedly conflict with federally filed tariffs involve a substantial federal question; or does the filed-rate doctrine merel… |
| 21-1372 |
Hollie Adams, et al. v. Teamsters Union Local 429, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
affirmative-consent agency-shop civil-rights due-process employment-contract first-amendment union union-dues waiver-requirement |
Whether the affirmative consent waiver requirement set forth in Janus v. AFSCME applies to nonmembers currently or previously employed in agency shop … |
| 21-1376 |
Mary Alexandre v. National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, PA |
First Circuit |
Denied |
|
accidental-death civil-procedure employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa insurance insurance-policy presumption state-of-mind suicide suicide-presumption trial-procedure |
Should the trial court apply presumptions against suicide and in favor of an accident when the insured's state of mind is contested in an ERISA-covere… |
| 21-1384 |
Florida v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights discrimination due-process federal-government federalism remedies standing state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation title-ii |
Whether Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act authorizes the United States to sue the states in its own name |
| 21-1391 |
Robert Kelly, Jr. v. City of Mount Vernon, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights court-ruling due-process judicial-duty legal-information oral-decision oral-rulings pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-rights standing |
To what extent do courts have an affirmative duty to fully inform pro se litigants of courtroom decisions and rulings issued orally from the court, an… |
| 21-1397 |
In Re Grand Jury |
Ninth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (16)Relisted (2) |
attorney-client-privilege circuit-split civil-procedure communication-protection confidentiality federal-rules-of-evidence legal-advice non-legal-advice professional-communication significant-purpose |
Whether a communication involving both legal and non-legal advice is protected by attorney-client privilege |
| 21-1398 |
Nelson Daniel Centeno v. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico |
Puerto Rico |
Denied |
|
acquittals constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure judicial-precedent non-unanimous-verdict puerto-rico puerto-rico-law ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment |
Does this Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana bar Puerto Rico from continuing to authorize non-unanimous acquittals? |
| 21-1399 |
Ali Al-Maqablh v. Crystal L. Heinz, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
GVR |
|
42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process favorable-termination legal-remedy malicious-prosecution section-1983 sixth-circuit standing thompson-v-clark |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's decision should be vacated and remanded for reconsideration in light of Thompson v. Clark |
| 21-1404 |
Sunoco Partners Marketing & Terminals L.P., et al. v. Perry Cline, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-jurisdiction burden-of-proof civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court-order finality finality-doctrine good-faith-appeal protective-appeal |
Whether a court of appeals can refuse to exercise its jurisdiction to determine its own jurisdiction |
| 21-1405 |
Lester J. Smith v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (8) |
accommodation circuit-court-review circuit-split civil-rights deference penological-interests prison-policy prisoners-rights religious-freedom religious-liberty rluipa |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in applying RLUIPA when it held that Georgia need not grant a religious accommodation offered in 39 other prison sy… |
| 21-1408 |
Peter Efo v. Diane Fondjo |
Maryland |
Denied |
|
13th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-order damages due-process employment-law labor labor-rights restitution thirteenth-amendment |
Whether a Court Order for refund of paid labor cost for work ordered by an employer and was completed by a laborer violates the U.S.C. Amendment XIII … |
| 21-1411 |
James Milton Dailey v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
brady-v-maryland capital-murder criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review materiality materiality-standard perjured-testimony perjury prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the State's knowing use of perjury is relevant to determining whether the perjured testimony was material to the verdict |
| 21-1416 |
Christopher Orr v. Christian Brothers High School, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-rights employment-discrimination employment-law first-amendment ministerial-exception racial-discrimination religious-discrimination religious-freedom title-vii |
Whether the ministerial exception applies to a lay principal who is not a spiritual leader of his religious high school |
| 21-1419 |
Hong Tang v. Kurt L. Schmoke, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling federal-procedure jurisdictional-dismissal maryland-law saving-statute section-1983 statute-of-limitations |
Whether federal equitable tolling rather than borrowed Maryland state limitations and tolling rules should apply to the subsequently re-filed 42 U.S.C… |
| 21-1422 |
Brett Ferris v. Chrystal Scism, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Joshua Scism |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
2nd-amendment civil-rights deadly-force due-process fourth-amendment lethal-force police-procedure qualified-immunity self-defense standing use-of-force |
Does the doctrine of qualified immunity shield a police officer from suit |
| 21-1426 |
Kirby Ingram v. Louis Kubik, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Dismissed |
|
ada americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-disability-law standing statutory-interpretation title-ii vicarious-liability |
Whether vicarious liability is available under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act |
| 21-1428 |
Donald L. Blankenship v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation circuit-split criminal-procedure due-diligence due-process exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-disclosure self-help |
Whether a defendant must show inability to obtain suppressed, exculpatory evidence through independent efforts to establish a Brady violation |
| 21-1429 |
Zhang Jingrong, et al. v. Chinese Anti-Cult World Alliance, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
civil-rights constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech legislative-history place-of-worship religious-discrimination religious-freedom statutory-interpretation |
Whether the statutory text and First Amendment permit FACEA's protections from violence at a 'place of religious worship' to apply only to places reli… |
| 21-1430 |
James K. Collins v. Michell R. Zolnier, dba CKC Properties, Top Star Leases |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
actual-fraud bankruptcy bankruptcy-code creditor creditor-rights debt-discharge discharge fraud fraudulent-transfer section-523 |
Whether the 'actual fraud' bar to discharge under Section 523(a)(2)(A) of the Bankruptcy Code applies when transfers made by the debtor were deliberat… |
| 21-1432 |
K. S., Father v. Iowa Department of Human Services, et al. |
Iowa |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection juvenile-court parental-rights procedural-hearing standing termination-of-rights |
Does the consolidated hearing violate petitioner's rights to procedural-due-process, substantive-due-process, equal-protection |
| 21-1435 |
Martin H. Leaf v. Nike, Inc., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights consumer-protection deceptive-conduct deceptive-practices free-speech internet-content pleading-standards standing state-of-mind subliminal-advertising |
Whether Michigan citizens are required to make a payment to be protected under the Michigan Consumer Protection Act |
| 21-1436 |
Leon Santos-Zacaria, aka Leon Santos-Sacarias v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Fifth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (3) |
administrative-exhaustion administrative-law circuit-split exhaustion-of-remedies immigration-law judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirement removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 1252(d)(1)'s exhaustion requirement is jurisdictional, or merely a mandatory claims-processing rule that may be waived or forfeited |
| 21-1437 |
Carol M. Kam v. Dallas County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process judicial-conduct judicial-misconduct non-final-orders probate-court rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-court-orders state-court-ruling |
Can the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine apply to non-final state court rulings? |
| 21-1441 |
Emanuel McCray v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-rulemaking constitutional-authority constitutional-interpretation executive-authority federal-constitution legislative-power occupational-safety public-health separation-of-powers |
What is the appropriate constitutional authority embodied in Articles I and III and the Tenth and Thirteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution that … |
| 21-1442 |
In Re Adriano Kruel Budri |
|
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure brief-dismissal civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-litigation timely-filing |
Did the Panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit err by dismissing for want of prosecution a pending Appellant's Opening Brief filed i… |
| 21-1443 |
Edward Ronny Arnold v. Bob Oglesby, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of General Services |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment sovereign-immunity state-authority wage-withholding warn-act |
Whether the Defendant, as Commissioner of the State of Tennessee Department of General Services, can use the defense of sovereign immunity |
| 21-1444 |
Dolgen California, LLC v. Tricia Galarsa |
California |
GVR |
|
bilateral-arbitration employment-law federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration iskanian-rule preemption private-attorneys-general-act representative-claims |
Does the FAA require enforcement of a bilateral arbitration agreement providing that an employee cannot assert representative claims, including under … |
| 21-1445 |
Ellen T. Thatcher v. Department of Veterans Affairs |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-rights due-process jury-determination materiality perjury summary-judgment veterans-administration |
Did the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals make a clear error when they termed perjury 'meritless,' failed to consider the materiality of Thatcher's perjur… |
| 21-1447 |
Estate of Gabriel Miranda, Jr., et al. v. Navistar, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
emergency-exit federal-preemption legislative-history legislative-intent motor-vehicle-safety school-bus-safety state-law statutory-interpretation |
Does FMVSS 217 preempt state law safety requirements? |
| 21-1449 |
Glacier Northwest, Inc., dba CalPortland v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local Union No. 174 |
Washington |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (17) |
labor-dispute labor-disputes labor-relations national-labor-relations-act preemption property-destruction property-rights state-tort-claim tort-law union-activity |
Does the National Labor Relations Act impliedly preempt a state tort claim against a union for intentionally destroying an employer's property in the … |
| 21-1450 |
Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S., aka Halkbank v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (9) |
18-usc-3231 28-usc-1330 28-usc-1602-1611 criminal-prosecution district-court-jurisdiction foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunity sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether U.S. district courts may exercise subject-matter jurisdiction over criminal prosecutions against foreign sovereigns and their instrumentalitie… |
| 21-1454 |
The Ohio Adjutant General's Department, et al. v. Federal Labor Relations Authority, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (7) |
civil-service-reform-act constitutional-interpretation constitutional-structure federal-agency-regulation federal-executive-agency federal-labor-relations-authority labor-practices militia-clause state-militias |
Does the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 empower the Federal Labor Relations Authority to regulate the labor practices of state militias? |
| 21-1455 |
Northport Health Services of Arkansas, LLC, dba Springdale Health and Rehabilitation Center, et al. v. Department of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
administrative-law arbitration-agreements chevron-deference disfavored-treatment federal-arbitration-act health-and-safety long-term-care-facilities medicaid-act medicare-act medicare-and-medicaid-acts |
Whether the FAA allows states and federal agencies to penalize the use of arbitration agreements |
| 21-1460 |
Cynthia Sue Mary, et al. v. QEP Energy Company, fka Questar Exploration & Production Company |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
continuing-trespass disgorgement-of-profits federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-circuit louisiana-law oil-and-gas-pipelines summary-judgment trespassing-pipelines |
Did the Fifth Circuit erroneously fail to determine and apply the substantive law of Louisiana with respect to 'disgorgement of profits' from trespass… |
| 21-1463 |
Missouri, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
administrative-procedure-act anti-commandeering reliance-interests spending-clause statutory-authority tenth-amendment vaccine-mandate |
Whether the CMS vaccine mandate for healthcare workers violates the Administrative Procedure Act, the Spending Clause, the anti-commandeering doctrine… |
| 21-1465 |
Austin Channing McGraw v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment self-incrimination warrantless-search |
Whether the government can advise a jury that a Defendant invoked his right against self-incrimination, and refused a consensual, warrantless search o… |
| 21-1466 |
Lenard Johnson v. Richard Winfrey, Jr., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment affidavit civil-rights damages-claim franks-v-delaware law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity section-1983 warrant-affidavit |
Whether a law enforcement officer violates clearly established law under Franks v. Delaware if the officer does not include information in an affidavi… |
| 21-1467 |
Archie McCoy v. Hawaii Department of Human Services, et al. |
Hawaii |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
constructive-service due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-representation legal-notice parental-rights service-of-process termination-proceedings |
Does the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause require further efforts by the government to locate an absent father before permitting constructive… |
| 21-1468 |
Erickson Meko Campbell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process judicial-discretion party-presentation sineneng-smith standing sua-sponte |
Whether a court of appeals violates the principle of party presentation |
| 21-1469 |
Samuel Armstrong v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment due-process emergency-powers executive-order fourteenth-amendment jacobson-v-massachusetts judicial-review public-health roman-cath-diocese-v-cuomo |
Did Governor Newsom's Executive Order N-33-20 violate the Due Process Clause? |
| 21-1470 |
Curtis Chun v. City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights employment employment-lawsuit fitness-to-proceed hawaii hawaii-law judicial-tolling statute-of-limitations |
Whether the District Court and the Court of Appeals failed to properly consider the full extent of Petitioner's lack of fitness to proceed in unrelate… |
| 21-1472 |
Claudia J. Rohr v. Hawaii Crime Victims Compensation Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
ada-amendments-act administrative-law americans-with-disabilities-act board-action disability-discrimination false-evidence judicial-procedure judicial-process statute-of-limitations summary-judgment |
Whether the statute of limitations accrued upon service of Commission Decision and Orders or upon first communication of the concurring vote of all th… |
| 21-1473 |
J. M. O. v. United States, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
None |
|
| 21-1474 |
Candace Owens, et al. v. Lead Stories, LLC, et al. |
Delaware |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights contract contract-law defamation first-amendment free-speech marketplace-regulation tortious-interference |
Should the First Amendment provide a defense to claims of tortious interference and similar torts that involve speech? |
| 21-1475 |
Maria Vazquez-Javier v. Union de Tronquistas de Puerto Rico Local 901 |
Puerto Rico |
Denied |
|
eeoc eeoc-charge employment-discrimination federal-claims federal-regulatory-framework retaliation state-claims statute-of-limitations tolling |
Whether the federal statutory and regulatory framework provides that any employee that files a Charge of Discrimination and Retaliation before the EEO… |
| 21-1476 |
Stephen Loftis White v. Nicholas B. Cox, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
birth-certificate-trust civil-rights commercial-law corporate-fiction due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge prosecutorial-authority redemption secured-interest standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court had subject-matter and personal jurisdiction over the petitioner |
| 21-1477 |
Sylwia Ewelina Madej Manchanda, et vir v. Andrea Lewis, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority judicial-bias judicial-proceedings organized-crime systemic-bias |
Does the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and Catherine O'Hagan Wolfe routinely and arbitrarily exercise authority beyond the proposed function and jur… |
| 21-1478 |
Nicholas Honchariw v. County of Stanislaus, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-interpretation due-process finality-requirement finality-ripeness knick pakdel ripeness-doctrine supreme-court-precedent takings takings-claim williamson-county |
Whether Knick v. Township of Scott, 139 S.Ct. 2162 (2019) and Pakdel v. City and Cty. of San Francisco, 141 S.Ct. 2226 (2021) have sanctioned a pervas… |
| 21-1479 |
S. W. and C. W., on Behalf of Their Minor Child, B. W. v. Capistrano Unified School District |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
civil-rights due-process education free-appropriate-public-education IDEA idea-compliance individualized-education-program parental-placement private-school reimbursement school-district-duty special-education-rights |
Does a school district have an affirmative duty under the IDEA to prepare an annual IEP for a child for the upcoming school year even after the parent… |
| 21-1480 |
James Acres v. Lester Marston, et al. |
California |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absolute-immunity california-common-law civil-litigation commercial-enterprise federal-law personal-immunity prosecutorial-immunity state-law tribal-immunity tribal-officials |
What personal immunities are available to tribal officials? |
| 21-1481 |
John Destin Alexander v. Department of the Army, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process freedom-of-speech government-overreach imprisonment involuntary-servitude privacy privacy-violation |
Can the government impose and maintain thirty years of involuntary servitude imprisonment upon an American citizen without filing any charges against … |
| 21-1483 |
Leander Bacon, et ux. v. United States, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process ejectment-action foreclosure-dispute issue-preclusion rooker-feldman-doctrine standing takings title-restoration veterans-affairs veterans-rights |
Whether the Bacons' complaint constitutes an 'ejectment' action |
| 21-1486 |
Nancy Catherine Powers v. Alabama |
Alabama |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
fourth-amendment premises-warrant probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant totality-of-the-circumstances unreasonable-search visitor visitor-rights warrantless-search |
Whether the search of a purse in the possession of a visitor present at a residence during the execution of a premises warrant violates the Fourth Ame… |
| 21-1489 |
Andrew Ioannidis v. Tom Wolf, Governor of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-remedy due-process election-law electoral-count-act first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech mootness standing state-law-preemption |
Whether there is any remedy for violation(s) of the First and Fourteenth Amendment(s) to the United States Constitution |
| 21-1490 |
Arvind Gupta v. Marty Walsh, Secretary, Department of Labor, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
employment-standards h-1b-visa immigration-compliance immigration-nationality-act labor-department labor-law nonimmigrant-worker prevailing-wage settlement-agreement wage-requirements working-conditions |
Whether employers can have legally enforceable private settlement agreement with the nonimmigrant worker to pay less than the wages required under the… |
| 21-1491 |
City of Kent, Washington v. Adrian Jacobo-Hernandez |
Washington |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process excessive-fines felony felony-instrumentality forfeiture livelihood-preservation property-forfeiture |
Whether the Excessive Fines Clause provides a livelihood preservation protection which can prevent the forfeiture of the instrumentality of a felony? |
| 21-1496 |
Twitter, Inc. v. Mehier Taamneh, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (19) |
aiding-and-abetting anti-terrorism-act foreign-terrorist-organization generic-services international-terrorism justice-against-sponsors-of-terrorism-act knowingly-provided knowingly-providing-substantial-assistance substantial-assistance terrorist-use-of-services |
Whether a defendant that provides generic, widely available services to all its numerous users and 'regularly' works to detect and prevent terrorists … |
| 21-1499 |
Mahesh Ramchanndani v. Sunil Gahdhi, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-law federal-statute property-rights racial-discrimination security-deposit standing tenant-rights |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1982 for failure to state a claim |
| 21-1500 |
Residents of Gordon Plaza, Inc. v. LaToya Cantrell, in Her Official Capacity as Mayor of the City of New Orleans, Louisiana, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
cercla citizen-suit comprehensive-environmental-response-compensation- consent-decree environmental-law epa-consent-decree operation-and-maintenance rcra removal-action resource-conservation-and-recovery-act |
Whether a liable party's operation and maintenance activities pursuant to an EPA consent decree constitute 'conducting a removal action' so as to bar … |
| 21-1501 |
Orrilyln Maxwell Stallworth v. Rodney W. Hurst, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity section-1983 standing |
Whether the Court should recalibrate or reverse the doctrine of qualified immunity |
| 21-1502 |
Jeff Swanson v. Couy Griffin, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-liberties first-amendment free-speech public-forum qualified-immunity social-media viewpoint-discrimination |
Did the Tenth Circuit err in reversing the decision of the District Court that Commissioner Couy Griffin was not entitled to qualified immunity after … |
| 21-1503 |
Lloyds Banking Group plc, et al. v. The Berkshire Bank, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure co-conspirator conspiracy defendant-actions due-process forum jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction |
Whether a court may exercise personal jurisdiction over a defendant merely because the defendant's alleged co-conspirator took foreseeable actions in … |
| 21-1504 |
Jason Wayne Carlile v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adversarial-testing criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether a defense attorney's complete failure to subject the State's case to adversarial testing during a trial deprives a criminal defendant of the e… |
| 21-1505 |
Mark H. Bonner v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-i-court clear-and-unmistakable-error clear-unmistakable-error collateral-estoppel equitable-jurisdiction equitable-remedy federal-circuit res-judicata veterans-claims |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims has jurisdiction to decide a veteran's claim based on the equitable remedy of collateral estoppe… |
| 21-1507 |
Houston Byrd, Jr. v. Christopher Cook, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights court-conspiracy due-process equal-protection fair-hearing judicial-bias jurisdiction procedural-fairness |
Did the Circuit court violate one's civil and constitutional rights? |
| 21-1508 |
David Dotson v. Atlantic Specialty Insurance Company |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
choice-of-forum day-in-court erie-doctrine federalism forum-selection insurance-litigation res-judicata substantive-law |
Did the court of appeals violate the federalism principle of Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938) when it refused to apply Louisiana's substant… |
| 21-1509 |
Ryan Costello v. Carol Ann Carter, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
|
2-usc-2a(c) congressional-redistricting constitutional-interpretation elections-clause judicial-remedies legislative-impasse partisan-gerrymandering state-court-discretion state-courts |
Do the Elections Clause and 2 U.S.C. § 2a(c) constrain the remedial discretion of courts when they impose congressional maps in response to a constitu… |
| 21-1510 |
David P. Marana v. Merit Systems Protection Board |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights commander-authority due-process hipaa-privacy military-discretion reasonable-person-standard redacted-evidence standing subculture-interpretation whistleblower-retaliation whistleblowing |
What court, tribunal, and or investigative agency ensures that information with redacted information when presented as evidence is valid, legal, and n… |
| 21-1512 |
San Bernardino County District Attorney, et al. v. Kevin Cooper, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights death-penalty due-process federal-courts governor-powers judicial-intervention ninth-circuit standing state-law |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit improperly denied Petitioners intervention in death-penalty-litigation |
| 21-1515 |
Colt Russell Lamoureux v. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
None |
|
| 21-1516 |
Swagelok Associates Welfare Benefits Plan v. Laura Patterson, et vir |
Ohio |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure equitable-relief erisa exclusive-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction plan-participant reimbursement state-court-jurisdiction welfare-benefits |
Is a state law action brought by a Plan Participant for an injunction barring an ERISA welfare benefit plan from enforcing its terms a claim for equit… |
| 21-1517 |
Bridgette Jacobs v. Walgreen Company |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
and the Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act ("TMF civil-procedure false-claims-act fifth-circuit materiality medicaid-fraud pleading-requirements pleading-standards rule-9(b) statutory-interpretation texas-medicaid-fraud-prevention-act |
Whether the Fifth Circuit correctly interpreted Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b)'s pleading requirements as applied to The False Claims Act, 31 U.… |
| 21-1518 |
BYD Company Ltd. v. Vice Media LLC |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
|
actual-malice defamation discovery-rights first-amendment iqbal pleading-standard public-figure twombly |
Whether Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly and Ashcroft v. Iqbal sub silentio overturned the balance struck in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan and its prog… |
| 21-1519 |
Joe Gregory Carlini v. Paramount Pictures Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
copyright copyright-infringement expert-opinion extrinsic-test fact-finder inverse-ratio-rule pleading-stage pleadings-stage selection-and-arrangement substantial-similarity |
whether-the-district-court-and-ninth-circuit-erred-in-applying-the-extrinsic-test-for-substantial-similarity |
| 21-1520 |
Wismettac Asian Foods, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-procedure due-process employer-speech first-amendment free-speech labor-board labor-law national-labor-relations-act section-8c standing union-authorization |
Did the NLRB violate employer-free-speech, 1st-amendment, 8c-nlra, 8a1-nlra, employee-rights-to-refrain, circuit-split |
| 21-1523 |
Wendell Tabb v. Durham Public Schools Board of Education |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-rights civil-rights-act comparator-analysis comparators discrimination eeoc eeoc-charge hishon-v-king-spalding statutory-period title-vii |
Does Title VII mandate trial courts exclude comparators who received a benefit discriminatorily doled out as defined in Hishon v. King & Spalding from… |
| 21-1524 |
Jesus Rivera v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
courts-of-appeals habeas-corpus judicial-review objectively-unreasonable precedent standard-of-review state-court unreasonable-manner |
What test should the Courts of Appeals employ to determine whether a state court writ of habeas corpus was decided in an objectively unreasonable mann… |
| 21-1526 |
Gilbert P. Hyatt v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action civil-procedure federal-circuit judicial-review mandamus-standard patent patent-office-rule standing summary-judgment |
Whether the ordinary summary judgment standard of Rule 56 applies to review of agency action |
| 21-1527 |
CustomPlay, LLC v. Amazon.com, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure america-invents-act due-process inter-partes-review patent patent-law patent-rights patent-trial-and-appeal-board statutory-interpretation trademark |
Whether the PTO violated the AIA by delegating the Director's responsibility to the PTAB |
| 21-1528 |
Patrick Combs, aka Patrick Davy Combs v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anticipatory-assignment-of-income church civil-rights constitutional-rights constructive-dividends due-process ninth-circuit tax tax-court |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court committed a constitutional violation by affirming the Tax Court's Order and Decision based on a nullified presumption … |
| 21-1529 |
Jian Wang, aka James Wang v. International Business Machines Corporation |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
|
asl-interpreter civil-rights deaf-litigant deaf-litigants due-process equal-protection pro-se property-rights |
Whether the Petitioner, as a Deaf plaintiff in a civil proceeding, was denied property rights without due process and equal protection of the laws tha… |
| 21-1530 |
Martine Bernard v. Christopher Hodyl |
Colorado |
Denied |
|
article-iii-standing civil-rights court-ordered-therapy due-process fourteenth-amendment personal-autonomy privilege professional-ethics standing therapist-privilege therapy-requirement |
Whether the federally and state recognized privilege in Jaffee v. Redmond and personal autonomy under the Fourteenth Amendment preclude a state distri… |
| 21-1531 |
Korry L. Ardell v. Joshua Kaul, Attorney General of Wisconsin |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech habeas-corpus jury-instructions procedural-default stalking |
Did the jury instructions deny the defendant his constitutional right to a jury finding beyond a reasonable doubt of all facts necessary for convictio… |
| 21-1532 |
Brian Davison v. Deborah Rose, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-scrutiny due-process first-amendment free-speech government-action government-speech public-forum speech-restriction standing viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether a forum and scrutiny analysis are required when considering First Amendment infringement claims involving the government barring citizen speec… |
| 21-1534 |
Rahila Tarverdiyeva v. Coinbase Global, Inc., aka Coinbase |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11th-circuit-court appeal arbitration arbitration-agreement breach-of-contract contract-defenses federal-arbitration-act fraud fraud-exception judicial-authority theft |
Whether the Judge exceeded her authority when she ruled only 'breach of contract' and granted compelling arbitration if the Petitioner's claim concern… |
| 21-1535 |
David Lowery v. Benjamin Joffe, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
class-action copyright cy-pres first-amendment google-litigation privacy-rights rule-23 settlement-fairness standing |
Whether a cy pres award that provides no direct relief or benefit to class members comports with Rule 23(e) |
| 21-1536 |
Arvind Gupta v. Headstrong, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
|
administrative-law civil-procedure contract-law employment-law h1b-visa immigration-law nonimmigrant-worker settlement-agreement wage-and-hour wage-hour-violations |
Whether employers can have a legally enforceable private settlement and release agreement with the nonimmigrant worker in violation of INA requirement… |
| 21-1541 |
Quannah L. Harris v. Jerry Biddle, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-filing due-process equitable-relief federal-courts federal-rules judicial-discretion procedural-limitations standing |
Does Rule 4(a)(6) of the Rules of Appellate Procedure limit equitable relief as it is part of the broad powers granted to the Federal Courts? |
| 21-1542 |
Mill Bay Members Association, Inc., et al. v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
equitable-estoppel executive-order federal-government general-allotment-act indian-lands land-allotment trust trust-period |
Whether equitable estoppel applies against the federal government as trustee for Indian lands |
| 21-1544 |
Cynthia Lopez v. Eric Quaempts, et al. |
California |
Denied |
|
civil-rights employee-ratification lewis-v-clarke ratification sovereign-immunity state-court-remedies state-tort-law tort-claims tribal-sovereign-immunity tribal-sovereignty vicarious-liability |
Whether the Court should clarify tribal sovereign immunity law to allow tort victims to sue a tribe based on vicarious liability when a tribe ratifies… |
| 21-1545 |
Allen Whitaker v. District of Columbia Concealed Pistol Licensing Review Board |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
2nd-amendment administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-vagueness due-process gun-rights license-revocation standing vagueness |
Can the government render moot a fully briefed appeal challenging the denial of a license to carry a pistol by granting the license — though not confe… |
| 21-1547 |
Chris C. Streeter v. John D. Casey, Chief Justice, Massachusetts Probate and Family Court |
Massachusetts |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-delay probate-court standing |
If the Petitioner's 14th Amendment right to due process and equal protection under the law are violated by the delays in issuing rulings as justice de… |
| 21-1548 |
Courtney L. Rainey v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-investigation due-process false-information first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech witness-intimidation |
Whether a conviction under a state witness intimidation statute violates the First Amendment and Due Process Clause |
| 21-1549 |
Isaac D. Koch v. Andela S. Koch, et al. |
Nebraska |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-protection-order civil-rights communication-restriction constitutional-rights due-process family-law free-speech injunction standing state-court-jurisdiction |
Shall any State, by her Legislature, heedlessly dictate with equity's injunction — that any one person is not protected by state and federal Constitut… |
| 21-1551 |
Jamar E. Plunkett v. Dan Sproul |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
ambiguity contract-interpretation criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-interpretation plea-agreement rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation |
Whether a plea agreement that is subject to more than one reasonable interpretation must be interpreted in the defendant's favor |
| 21-1554 |
Worlds Inc. v. Activision Blizzard Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 abstract-idea filtering patent-eligibility patent-ineligibility section-101 software-invention summary-judgment well-known-routine-conventional |
What is the appropriate standard for determining whether a patent claim is 'directed to' a patent-ineligible concept under step one of the Court's two… |
| 21-1555 |
Derek Allen, et al. v. Vertafore, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights disclosure driver-privacy-protection-act driver's-privacy-protection-act due-process fifth-circuit motor-vehicle-record personal-information public-records standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in finding that the petitioners' allegation that the respondent exposed their DPPA-protected personal information to p… |
| 21-1556 |
Chinese Anti-Cult World Alliance, Inc., et al. v. Zhang Jingrong, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
|
commerce-clause congress-authority congressional-power federal-jurisdiction freedom-of-access-to-clinic-entrances-act intimidation lopez-morrison-test places-of-worship religious-worship statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 248(a)(2) is unconstitutional as exceeding Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause |
| 21-1558 |
John Curtis Dewberry v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Divisions |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
aedpa certificate-of-appealability death-penalty district-court evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel minor-sentencing |
Whether the United States District Court For The Eastern District Of Texas erred in denying Petitioner Dewberry a Certificate of Appealability |
| 21-1559 |
Sharon Powell, as Executrix of the Estate of William David Powell, et al. v. Jennifer Snook, as Executrix for the Estate of Patrick Snook |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-force due-process fair-notice fourth-amendment qualified-immunity totality-of-the-circumstances use-of-force |
When the unconstitutionality of an officer's conduct is obvious, must the court, in addressing the 'clearly established law' prong of a qualified immu… |
| 21-1560 |
Bernice Curry-Malcolm v. Rochester City School District, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination issue-preclusion judicial-recusal pleading-standards pre-filing-sanctions |
Whether a judge's impartiality might reasonably be questioned |
| 21-1561 |
Vickie Brooks v. Philadelphia Insurance Companies |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine stare-decisis summary-judgment tenth-circuit |
Did the Tenth Circuit Court fail to follow stare decisis by failing to follow its own ruling in Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938) and affirm… |
| 21-1562 |
Jermel Leon Reed v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-indictment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
Was Reed's right to a grand jury indictment secured by the Fourteenth and Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution violated when Reed was not… |
| 21-1564 |
Chancellor Senior Management, Ltd. v. Louise McGraw, By and Through Her Daughter, Nancy Reuschel as Power of Attorney, et al. |
West Virginia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration-agreement contract-enforcement court-appointment federal-arbitration-act forum-unavailability judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether the West Virginia Court's determination that the parties' arbitration agreement is invalid and unenforceable |
| 21-1565 |
State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees, et al. v. I. Beverly Lake, et al. |
North Carolina |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law contracts-clause due-process employee-rights government-benefits government-employees legislative-reservation statutory-amendment statutory-interpretation |
When a state legislature expressly reserves the right to amend a statute providing benefits to government employees, does that reservation bar a claim… |
| 21-1567 |
Biogen International GmbH, et al. v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
35-usc-112 effective-dose efficacy-requirement federal-circuit multiple-sclerosis patent patent-law patent-specification statutory-interpretation written-description |
Is 35 U.S.C. § 112's written-description requirement met when the specification describes the invention? |
| 21-1568 |
Austin Roger Carter v. Genesis Alkali LLC, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
|
appeal appeal-procedure attorney-client attorney-client-privilege civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment professional-conduct standing |
Whether Petitioner's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments rights were violated |
| 21-1569 |
SouthPointe Partners, LLC v. Louisville Metro Government, et al. |
Kentucky |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 administrative-law administrative-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exclusive-remedy federal-claims section-1983 state-statute |
Can a state statute providing a right of appeal from an administrative decision serve as an 'exclusive remedy' to bar separate federal claims under 42… |
| 21-1573 |
Francisco Guzman-Chicas v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
None |
|
| 21-1574 |
Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Europe v. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
central-authority civil-procedure default-judgment foreign-sovereign-immunities-act hague-service-convention service-of-process treaty-interpretation |
Whether a District Court deciding a motion for default judgment may find service upon a foreign State pursuant to Article 15 of the Hague Service Conv… |
| 21-1575 |
Geoffrey M. Young v. Jeremy Mattox, Judge, Circuit Court of Kentucky, 14th Judicial Circuit |
Kentucky |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion circuit-court civil-procedure clerk court-clerk judicial-discretion judicial-ethics mandamus ministerial-duties prohibition |
Does any circuit court judge have the authority or discretion to prevent the clerk of the circuit court from properly performing her ministerial dutie… |
| 21-1577 |
Ayyakkannu Manivannan v. Department of Energy |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure administrative-remedies agency-records foia freedom-of-information-act judicial-review personal-privacy public-official redaction statutory-interpretation statutory-time-limit |
When a person requests records from a federal agency under the FOIA, may the agency redact the requester's own name? |
| 21-1578 |
Quannah L. Harris v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
|
bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure damages fraud fraud-claims fraudulent-intent materiality reliance rule-9b |
Did the Court misapprehended the law and facts in affirming the District Court's decision to dismiss the fraud claims based on the failure to state a … |
| 21-1579 |
Stephen Alexander v. Georgia |
Georgia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
courtroom-closure fundamental-unfairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
When Defense Counsel errs by not objecting to an improper courtroom closure, should reviewing courts apply a 'fundamental unfairness' test, or the tra… |
| 21-1580 |
MyPillow, Inc. v. US Dominion, Inc., et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
|
actual-malice collateral-order-doctrine defamation first-amendment free-speech interlocutory-appeal jurisdictional-appeal new-york-times-standard |
Whether a critic of official conduct may immediately appeal under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 a district court's refusal to dismiss under New York Times Co. v. S… |
| 21-1581 |
Tong Park v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access-to-courts civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment extrinsic-fraud fair-trial faretta-rights in-personam-jurisdiction prima-facie-guilt subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-of-error-coram-nobis |
whether-the-court-should-intervene-to-bring-lower-state-courts-in-line-with-established-us-constitutional-laws |
| 21-1582 |
In Re Jack R. Finnegan |
|
Denied |
|
28-usc-455 bankruptcy-procedure bias-and-prejudice constitution-questions-and-federal-laws constitutional-taking due-process federal-jurisdiction inferior-officer judicial-bias liteky-v-united-states rule-22(a) |
Why is the Inferior Officer who was disqualified in June, 2018, for Bias and Prejudice, allowed to be in defiance to the order of the United States Su… |
| 21-1583 |
Jerry Bird v. Oregon Commission for the Blind, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11th-amendment administrative-procedures-act arbitration-process blind-vendor-rights commercial-contract eleventh-amendment federal-arbitration federal-statute sovereign-immunity vending-services |
Does a State waive its sovereign immunity from money damages when it voluntarily enters into a commercial vending services contract with a private ind… |
| 21-1584 |
Martin Louis Ballard v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
drug-conspiracy due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mistrial murder-for-hire sixth-amendment |
Is the right of Martin Ballard to due process of law under the Fifth Amendment and the right to a fair and impartial fact finder in his trial under th… |
| 21-1585 |
Richard Arnold, et al. v. Carlos Del Toro, Secretary of the Navy, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-error constructive-discharge due-process free-speech judicial-review navy-chaplaincy promotion-procedures religious-speech res-judicata retaliation retaliation-claims |
Did the Court of Appeals commit constitutional error in holding that In re Navy Chaplaincy's denial of Petitioners' systemic challenges to the Navy pr… |
| 21-1586 |
Cheryl Romano, et vir v. Jazz Casino Company, L.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-review findings-of-fact inferences judicial-procedure jury-trial seventh-amendment summary-judgment |
Whether the lower courts violated the standards set in Tolan v. Cotton, Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, and Eastman Kodak v. Image Technical Services when … |
| 21-1588 |
Susan Spell v. Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services |
California |
Denied |
|
child-custody civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fraud racial-discrimination writ-of-error-coram-vobis |
Does a trial court violate the Equal Protection clause when it bases a child custody order on a racially discriminatory theory? |
| 21-1589 |
Henry McInnis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split false-claims first-amendment fraud hospice-fraud medical-certification regulatory-liability social-security-act |
Did the lower court err in finding pervasive fraud as to 'false' hospice |
| 21-159 |
W. Clark Aposhian v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (7)Relisted (21) |
administrative-law agency-interpretation agency-regulation chevron-deference constitutional-concerns criminal-law rule-of-lenity statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether courts should defer under Chevron to an agency interpretation of federal law when the federal government affirmatively disavows Chevron defere… |
| 21-1590 |
Rosemarie Austin v. Nationstar Mortgage LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure discovery discovery-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion pro-se |
Whether a litigant in pro se can be denied their right to due process under the 5th and 14th Amendments solely based on the court's assumption that th… |
| 21-1592 |
Shapour Motamedi, Shayan Motamedi, and Heriberto Moises Lopez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law article-i constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-rulemaking delegation-of-authority delegation-of-power due-process health-and-human-services legislative-authority rulemaking-authority separation-of-powers |
Whether Congress violated Article I, § 1 by improperly vesting the Department of Health and Human Services with discretion to determine criminalized a… |
| 21-1594 |
Preston L. Drane v. Stephania Drane |
Florida |
Denied |
|
disability-payments divorce-proceedings equitable-distribution expert-testimony military-benefits military-disability pension-division uniformed-services-former-spouses-protection-act uniformed-services-protection-act veterans-benefits |
Whether a court may disregard military documentation showing that a veteran's payments are for disability and instead rely on expert testimony to conc… |
| 21-1595 |
Terrance Carvell Guinn v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-circuit all-writs-act civil-procedure constitutional-conflict judicial-proceedings supervisory-power supreme-court-review writ-of-audita-querela writ-of-relief-from-judgment |
Whether the US Appeals Court for the 5th Circuit affirmed decision has departed from the usual judicial proceedings in denying Mr. Guinn's writs |
| 21-1597 |
Seyed Mohsen Sharifi Takieh v. Banner Health, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
12(b)(6)-motion civil-rights discrimination due-process medical-board-investigation pleading-standards race-discrimination race-neutral-explanation standing summary-judgment |
Did the Ninth Circuit err in determining that the District Court properly incorporated the Ruling in the State Court Injunction Action on a 12(b)(6) M… |
| 21-1600 |
Jian-Yun Dong, aka John Dong v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2461c asset-seizure breach-of-contract contract-breach criminal-forfeiture federal-criminal-law honeycutt-precedent honeycutt-v-united-states ownership-interest personal-gain statutory-interpretation |
Whether a criminal forfeiture judgment is permitted under Honeycutt v. United States |
| 21-1602 |
Arturo Espino-Martinez v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
None |
|
| 21-1603 |
Canada Hockey, L.L.C., dba Epic Sports, et al. v. Texas A&M University Athletic Department, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
constitutional-violation copyright-infringement due-process federal-remedies knick-v-township-of-scott state-sovereign-immunity takings takings-clause united-states-v-georgia |
Whether copyright infringement by a state government constitutes a taking under the Fifth Amendment, whether a hypothetical state remedy is sufficient… |
| 21-1604 |
Robin G. Thornton, et al. v. Tyson Foods, Inc., et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
agency-guidance consumer-protection federal-meat-inspection-act federalism food-labeling labeling-regulations meat-inspection-act preemption |
Can the beef packing industry and United States of Agriculture override the clearly stated Congressional purpose of enacting the Federal Meat Inspecti… |
| 21-1605 |
Kevin Kerveng Tung, P.C. v. Charles M. Forman, Chapter 7 Trustee, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
|
article-iii bankruptcy-code disgorgement non-core-proceedings separation-of-powers stern-v-marshall |
whether-a-non-article-iii-bankruptcy-court-judge-can-exercise-judicial-power |
| 21-1606 |
Chase Yarbrough v. Santa Fe Independent School District, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-duty due-process nonstate-actor state-created-danger |
Whether this Court should resolve a Circuit split on the 'state-created danger' theory of a constitutional duty to protect citizens from a nonstate ac… |
| 21-1607 |
Oleg Deripaska v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-procedure due-process executive-orders foreign-assets-control international-emergency-economic-powers-act international-law national-emergency national-security sanctions treasury-department |
Whether the United States Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control acted beyond the scope of its statutory authority under the In… |
| 21-1611 |
Robert Koger v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
conflict-of-interest criminal-defense criminal-investigation defense-counsel disclosure due-process reversal sixth-amendment witness witness-testimony |
Whether a criminal defendant establishes an actual unwaiveable conflict of interest that adversely affects counsel's representation |
| 21-5874 |
Warren Lavell Jackson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law constitutional-precedent covered-offense criminal-sentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 'as if' language in Section 404(b) of the First Step Act requires a sentencing court to disregard intervening, but well-established consti… |
| 21-6007 |
Carlton Potts, aka Pep v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion factual-developments fair-sentencing-act first-step-act legal-developments sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court must or may consider intervening legal and factual developments when deciding to impose a reduced sentence under the First St… |
| 21-6107 |
Thomas Johnson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-resentencing district-court-discretion factual-developments fair-sentencing-act first-step-act legal-developments presidential-commutation sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court must or may consider intervening legal and factual developments when deciding to impose a reduced sentence under the First St… |
| 21-6179 |
Leoncio Perez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-justice due-process first-step-act sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Composing a Reduced Sentence Pursuant to § 404 of the First STEP Act of 2018 requires a Plenary Resentencing |
| 21-6224 |
Tony Ford v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
criminal-justice-reform criminal-resentencing district-court-discretion first-step-act intervening-legal-developments legal-developments retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court must or may consider intervening legal developments when deciding whether to impose a reduced sentence under Section 404(b) o… |
| 21-6753 |
Trevin Nunnally, aka Rick v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
apprendi cocaine-distribution constitutional-law constitutional-precedent criminal-justice-reform criminal-statute first-step-act intervening-developments sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court must or may consider intervening legal and factual developments when deciding to impose a reduced sentence under the First St… |
| 21-6941 |
Tracy Vaughn v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a crack-cocaine criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion first-step-act sentencing-factors sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court must consider 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) sentencing factors in deciding to impose a reduced sentence for a crack cocaine offense und… |
| 21-7137 |
Lonnel Porter v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law custody custody-escape eighth-circuit escape homelessness residential-reentry-center sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit misconstrued 18 U.S.C. § 751(a) to find that an escape from custody imposed 'by virtue of ... conviction' includes placemen… |
| 21-7142 |
C. Holmes v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
appeal appellate-jurisdiction article-iii-court civil-procedure de-novo-review dispositive-motions due-process judicial-review magistrate magistrate-referral standard-of-review |
Whether this Court should grant writ of certiorari regarding denial of the timely request for the substantial right of de novo determination by Articl… |
| 21-7398 |
Ricardo Rizo-Rizo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law immigration immigration-law mens-rea ninth-circuit presumption-of-mens-rea public-welfare-exception public-welfare-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether 8 U.S.C. § 1325(a)(1) fits under the 'public-welfare-exception' to the presumption of mens rea when the statute does not involve 'dangerous-an… |
| 21-7436 |
Kevin D. Loggins, Sr. v. Jeff Zmuda, Secretary, Kansas Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-post-facto freedom-of-association miscarriage-of-justice section-1983 turner-v-safely |
Whether the U.S. District Court and U.S. Court of Appeals erred in finding plaintiff failed to state a claim regarding encroachment upon plaintiff's c… |
| 21-7471 |
Jacques Hernes Telcy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
district-court-authority first-step-act first-step-act-2018 habeas-corpus new-judgment resentencing sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation |
Whether a resentencing under the First Step Act of 2018 qualifies as a new judgment for the purpose of Magwood v. Patterson |
| 21-7473 |
Antwoyn Terrell Spencer v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process first-step-act habeas-corpus jury-trial sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether Weer Poltoner is being deprived of his Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial |
| 21-7579 |
Taqwa Siddeeq v. DeKalb County, Georgia |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
conflict-of-interest court-record due-process employee-response employee-rights government-counsel government-employment job-tenure loudermill-standard termination-intent |
Does due process exist under the Loudermill standard when government counsel withholds the employee's written response? |
| 21-7618 |
Tony Gene Williams, Sr. v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
confrontation-clause due-process habeas-corpus hearsay-testimony insufficient-evidence jailhouse-snitch newly-discovered-evidence sixth-amendment |
Whether the lower court erred in denying the petition for writ of certiorari |
| 21-7624 |
Wilfredo Lee Lopez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split constructive-amendment criminal-enticement criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment indictment predicate-offense statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) require proof of a specific predicate offense? |
| 21-7646 |
Jason Delacerda v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process future-dangerousness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel psychiatric-evidence psychiatric-testimony sufficiency-of-evidence |
Did the appellate court err in failing to find that the evidence was insufficient to support the conviction and death sentence? |
| 21-7650 |
Nathan Terry v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts standing |
Whether the United States District Court for the Eastern District violated 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circu… |
| 21-7684 |
Ernest DeWayne Jones v. Ronald Broomfield, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
complete-defense constitutional-analysis constitutional-restriction criminal-defendant-rights criminal-defense due-process expert-testimony right-to-testify rock-v-arkansas |
Whether a criminal defendant's right to testify is violated when prevented from testifying to facts within his personal knowledge without expert testi… |
| 21-7703 |
Tyrone Wortham v. New York |
New York |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
booking-exception criminal-procedure incriminating-response law-enforcement miranda-rights split-of-authority |
When a law enforcement officer's purportedly biographical question to a suspect is reasonably likely to elicit an incriminating response, does it fall… |
| 21-7709 |
David C. Morris v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment direct-appeal ineffective-assistance-of-counsel res-judicata sentencing sentencing-error statutory-authority statutory-authorization |
Whether res judicata may bar correction of a sentence of 'natural life' that does not exist and is not authorized by statute, which constitutes cruel … |
| 21-7718 |
Mark A. Winger v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-violation constitutional-due-process due-process materiality materiality-standard perjury post-conviction-petition prosecutorial-misconduct united-states-v-agurs witness-perjury |
Whether a State prisoner's post-conviction petition claim of a Brady violation alleging perjury by a State's witness at trial, whose false testimony p… |
| 21-7727 |
Anthony Kimbrough v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-judgments criminal-judgments final-judgment indian-territory mcgirt-decision mcgirt-v-oklahoma race racial-classification retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the McGirt v. Oklahoma decision applies retroactively to all persons in Indian Territory irrespective of race, including their final civil and… |
| 21-7736 |
Bertha Montes de Oca v. Park Way Baptist Church |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
baptist-church civil-rights complots conspiracy constitutional-violation criminal-justice discrimination due-process government-agencies legal-proceedings murder-case |
Whether the petitioner's civil rights were violated through a conspiracy and complots by the Park Way Baptist Church and government agencies |
| 21-7740 |
Michael G. Peters v. Texas Children's Hospital, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Dismissed |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts standing |
Whether the United States District Court for the District of Columbia erred in dismissing petitioners' complaint for lack of standing and failure to s… |
| 21-7741 |
David Mejia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pro-se pro-se-litigant standing |
Has the Fifth Circuit erred in holding fraud on the court not a substantive constitutional violation of due process? |
| 21-7744 |
Bralen Lamar Jordan v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-1915 civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction imminent-danger judicial-review standing three-strikes |
Whether the 'imminent danger' exception to the 'three strikes' rule under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g) applies when the prisoner alleges that something is abou… |
| 21-7745 |
Raymond E. Lumsden v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction standing |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its decision |
| 21-7747 |
Michael G. Peters v. Kenneth M. Hoyt, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Dismissed |
IFP |
citizen-rights civil-rights constitutional-violation corporate-cover-up due-process evidence-suppression free-speech government-action legal-dispute petition-clause standing takings |
Whether the First Amendment protects the right of citizens to petition the government for a redress of grievances, including the right to file lawsuit… |
| 21-7749 |
Samba Sarr v. Brian Cook, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence kidnapping sexual-assault sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether Counsel for Defendant was ineffective as trial counsel |
| 21-7751 |
Timothy Littlejohn v. Dr. Dalton, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights disability due-process glaucoma-treatment judicial-discretion medical-negligence medical-treatment ophthalmology standing |
Whether the district court misapplied the governing legal rules concerning my constitutional right to be treated by ophthalmologists and did so by imp… |
| 21-7755 |
Eric Ericson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights court-injunction due-process first-amendment free-speech injunction standing state-prosecution |
Must a citizen obey a court ordered injunction that deprives him of his constitutionally protected right to free speech under the First Amendment? |
| 21-7756 |
Robert James Swint v. Robert R. Redfield, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Dismissed |
IFP |
administrative-law agency-deference appellate-review civil-procedure remand standard-of-review |
Whether the district court's remand to the agency constitutes a waiver of de novo review by the district court of the agency's decision on appeal |
| 21-7760 |
William James Siskos v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts fraud fraud-prevention judicial-process misconduct misrepresentation pro-se-litigants |
Did the Supreme Court err in holding that the federal courts have the right and the duty to protect themselves from fraud, misrepresentation and misco… |
| 21-7762 |
Jesus Leonardo Castillo-Martinez v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
8-usc-1326d administrative-exhaustion collateral-challenge deportation-order illegal-reentry immigration-removal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review notice-to-appear |
Whether counsel's failure to raise a controlling issue pending in this Court constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 21-7766 |
Jacory Brown v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process effective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-claims prima-facie-case sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
When does a showing under Strickland v. Washington establish a prima facie case of ineffective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment? |
| 21-7771 |
James Lamar Strickland v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-disclosure criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-standard sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the court of appeals improperly applied the prejudice standard articulated by this Court in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984) |
| 21-7774 |
Brandon Leon Bibbs v. Alex Villanueva, Sheriff, Los Angeles County, California |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-and-statutory-provisions constitutional-review due-process federal-review habeas-corpus jurisdiction reasons-for-granting-the-writ standing state-court-adjudication |
Whether the lower court erred in denying petitioner's claim for adequate relief when petitioner is fully denied standing to bring his claims |
| 21-7775 |
In Re Crystal Maye |
|
Denied |
IFP |
agency-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process jurisdictional-challenge state-taxation tax-jurisdiction taxation trustee-residency trusts |
whether agency proceedually followed notice requirement to service trustee, on Trust, or beneficaries or , whether Court over reach authority to tax t… |
| 21-7776 |
Kelvin Wrenn v. Deborah Toney, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 21-7778 |
Lester Ochoa v. Ron Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment cullen-v-pinholster eighth-amendment family-sympathy jury-instructions mitigation mitigation-evidence |
Whether a State court may prohibit jurors from considering sympathy for a defendant's family in the penalty phase of a capital case as mitigation |
| 21-7782 |
William Larry Foley v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial jury-verdict standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Is the evidence sufficient to sustain the jury's guilty verdict? |
| 21-7789 |
Angel Osornio v. Arizona |
Arizona |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant legal issues |
| 21-7794 |
Paul C. Bolin v. Ron Broomfield, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors capital-punishment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-discretion mitigation mitigation-evidence prejudice-analysis prejudice-standard strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether a state or federal habeas court may reasonably conclude that a crime is so aggravated that no mitigation could persuade even one juror to vote… |
| 21-7795 |
Michael G. Peters v. Tony Duckworth, aka Anthony, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy due-process standing takings |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 21-7796 |
Ryan Stephen Ehrenreich v. Shirley N. Weber, California Secretary of State |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
ballot-access candidate-certification civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process election-law elections filing-fee filing-fees free-speech notarization write-in-voting |
Whether the State of California may condition the reporting of the results of write-in voting on the State's 'candidate certification' requirement tha… |
| 21-7797 |
Michael G. Peters v. Texas Medical Board |
Fifth Circuit |
Dismissed |
IFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action breakdown-of-communication criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review right-to-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation substitute-counsel |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel requires courts to appoint substitute counsel when a defendant demonstrates a com… |
| 21-7798 |
Francisco Manuel Padilla v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights counsel-appointment criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal right-to-counsel standard-of-review |
Did the trial court abuse its discretion and violate the appellant's constitutional rights by denying his motion to withdraw his pleas? |
| 21-7799 |
Sam Jones v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
equitable-tolling federal-review habeas-corpus irwin-v-dept-of-veterans-affairs martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan statutory-limitations statutory-tolling trevino-exception trevino-v-thaler |
Did the district court and Fifth Circuit err in refusing to equitably toll petitioner's untimely refiled §2254 habeas petition |
| 21-7801 |
Richard E. Shreves v. United States District Court for the District of Montana |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-authority document-access due-process e-filing e-filing-program inmate-rights prison-litigation pro-se-litigant standing statutory-interpretation |
Did the District Court exceed its authority in determining pro-se inmate litigants were not entitled to one free copy of filed documents under 28 U.S.… |
| 21-7803 |
Frank Jauron Stringfellow v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process intoxication-defense jury-instructions non-unanimous-verdict supreme-court-review |
Whether the Louisiana Supreme Court, Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal and the trial court erred in denying Frank Stringfellow's constitutional… |
| 21-7807 |
In Re Rafael Cezar Danam |
|
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection first-amendment jury-trial mandamus-writ redress-of-grievances supremacy-clause |
Writ of Mandamus to Correct Constitutional Violations |
| 21-7809 |
Urshawn Eric Miller v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-and-capricious arbitrary-capricious capital-punishment comparative-proportionality-review death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment proportionality-review sentencing-review |
Whether Tennessee's comparative proportionality review satisfies the Eighth Amendment |
| 21-7810 |
Michael Geoffrey Peters v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Dismissed |
IFP |
due-process fifth-amendment land-use property-rights regulatory-takings takings-clause |
Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits the government from requiring a property owner to dedicate a public easement as a conditio… |
| 21-7811 |
Kushawn Miles-El, aka Kushawn S. Miles v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-counsel constitutional-error constitutional-errors court-transcripts due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-appeal structural-errors transcripts |
whether-petitioner-s-direct-appeal-as-of-right-should-be-reinstated |
| 21-7815 |
Na'Starja Saunders v. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 21-7817 |
Jordan Nathaniel Mitchell v. Dentist, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights due-process incarceration medical-care pro-se |
Whether the petitioner has the right to receive copies of court filings |
| 21-7818 |
Kenneth Jay Moore v. Washington |
Washington |
Denied |
IFP |
eminent-domain fifth-amendment just-compensation property-rights public-use takings-clause |
Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits the government from requiring a property owner to dedicate a portion of their property for… |
| 21-7823 |
Robert L. Allum v. Montana |
Montana |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge due-process executive-branch financial-gain fourteenth-amendment judicial-integrity judicial-pool res-judicata state-constitution workers-compensation |
Whether a 46-year history of a state court violating due-process rights constitutes sufficient injury to the judicial system |
| 21-7831 |
Gerry Ranson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Bénzeymin saratt of Vaan ~ Qafa a County, Pleryfa edev of Témy of Love Religlewy Grew Fur Hebvenc€5rael tes le gau 7 YAY that he 75 EloHe as c… |
| 21-7834 |
Anne P. Mulligan v. Johnna Kohl |
Alaska |
Denied |
IFP |
billing-practices charity-care medicaid-fraud medical-billing medical-ethics patient-privacy physician-ethics tax-deduction tax-deductions |
Can a physician legally obtain a patient's Medicaid information without the patient's knowledge and bill Medicaid? |
| 21-7836 |
Bruce Edward Bingham, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof closing-arguments constitutional-ineffective-assistance criminal-procedure discovery-violation due-process due-process-violation prosecutorial-misconduct remorse right-to-counsel |
Was the prosecution's remarks regarding the 'conscience of the community' and 'remorse' prosecutorial misconduct, or allowable argument? |
| 21-7839 |
Sloan Patrick Stanley v. Jeffrey Uttecht, Superintendent, Coyote Ridge Corrections Center, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference deliberative-evidence due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review petition-reconsideration standing untimely-filing |
Did the court commit error when it dismissed my complaint as frivolous? |
| 21-7840 |
Hazhar A. Sayed v. Colorado |
Colorado |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea immigration ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel people-v-chavez-torres plea-bargaining plea-counsel |
Whether Mr. Sayed's plea was entered knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily |
| 21-7847 |
Michael G. Peters v. Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Dismissed |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights due-process free-speech public-trial standing |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial extends to the public's right to access court records and proceedings, and whether the government … |
| 21-7849 |
Mark Stinson v. John P. Yates, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment administrative-segregation confinement-standards constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment inmate-rights prison-administration |
What limits the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment places on the authority of prison administrators to remove inmates from the general prison p… |
| 21-7850 |
Nawaz Ahmed v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Dismissed |
IFP |
ada-disability appeal appellate-jurisdiction clerk-error constitutional-rights counsel-substitution habeas-corpus judicial-procedure motion-to-substitute-counsel pro-se pro-se-motions |
Question not identified |
| 21-7853 |
Gregory Spiros Demetrulius v. Ron Broomfield, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-claim cumulative-error due-process federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus harmless-error ninth-circuit state-concessions state-court-error state-court-findings |
Did the Ninth Circuit's refusal to accept the State's concessions of error conflict with this Court's decisions? |
| 21-7854 |
Michael G. Peters v. David Hittner, Judge |
Fifth Circuit |
Dismissed |
IFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination hearsay sixth-amendment unavailability |
Whether the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause prohibits the admission of testimonial hearsay statements in a criminal trial when the declarant is… |
| 21-7856 |
William Garrido v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process prosecutorial-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct read-back-testimony right-to-fair-trial witness-testimony |
Whether a trial court violates a criminal defendant's constitutional right to due process of law by permitting a prosecutor to introduce previous unre… |
| 21-7857 |
Richard Dwayne Blalock v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure indian-law jurisdiction mcgirt-case native-american-rights procedural-rule retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), is a Substantive ruling or a Procedural ruling |
| 21-7861 |
Omar S. Folk v. Bureau of Prisons, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abeyance case-holding certiorari circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-tort-claims-act legal-abeyance procedural-review standing supreme-court |
Whether the Pending Supreme Court Case Egbert v. Boule, Case No. 21-147(Cert. Granted Nov. 5, 2021) Should be Held In Abeyance until outcome |
| 21-7863 |
Jaques Fearence v. Brenda M. Cash, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions governing the issues prese… |
| 21-7868 |
Lee Michael Pederson v. Phillip Frost, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
calder-v-jones civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction intentional-interference personal-jurisdiction venue-transfer witness-tampering |
Does Minnesota have the power to exercise specific personal jurisdiction over Phillip Frost and CoCrystal Pharma, Inc. under Calder v Jones, where the… |
| 21-7871 |
Clifton D. Harvin v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-limitations certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-of-case law-of-the-case |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit impose an improper and unduly burdensome Certificate of Appealability standard? |
| 21-7876 |
Matthew Alexander, III v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure motion-to-suppress plain-error suppression-motion waiver |
When a defendant files a motion to suppress, then raises a new argument to support suppression in the court of appeals, is the new argument waived abs… |
| 21-7877 |
James Adeyemi v. Maryland, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights discrimination-claim due-process eleventh-amendment public-safety-department retaliation-claim sovereign-immunity state-employees state-sovereign-immunity |
Does the Eleventh amendment bar claims of retaliation or discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act? |
| 21-7879 |
Stanley Cookston v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
competency competency-hearing constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial retrospective-determination trial-court trial-court-procedure |
Was Cookston's Constitutional Rights to due-process and fair-trial violated by the trial court making a retrospective determination of competency a ye… |
| 21-7882 |
In Re Lin Ouyang |
|
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals court-rules exceptional-circumstances final-judgment finality-of-judgment frivolous-appeal mandamus statutory-provisions writ-of-mandamus |
Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the court of appeals to rule the motion for reconsideration |
| 21-7883 |
In Re Graham Schiff |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing |
Was petitioner denied constitutional rights related to habeas corpus? |
| 21-7885 |
Charles Deon Ladd v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech mcgirt-case oklahoma-jurisdiction procedural-rule retroactivity standing substantive-rule supreme-court takings |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights |
| 21-7889 |
Zahkuan Bailey-Sweeting, aka Zahkuan Sweeting-Bailey v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment fourth-amendment individualized-suspicion pat-frisk police-hunch police-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop unreasonable-search |
Did the pat-frisk of Mr. Bailey-Sweeting violate his right to be free from unreasonable searches under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment? |
| 21-7894 |
Dana Albrecht v. Katherine Albrecht |
New Hampshire |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
domestic-violence due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment objective-standards orders-of-protection protective-order supreme-court |
Whether the Due Process or Equal Protection Clause require objective standards for the issuance or extension of a domestic violence order of protectio… |
| 21-7896 |
Margie E. Robertson v. District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights district-of-columbia due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection judicial-employment title-vii |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7898 |
Emilio Evalio Arenas v. Nevada |
Nevada |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process free-speech mistrial prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct standing |
Whether the Supreme Court of Nevada erred when it concluded that the petitioner was not prejudiced by cumulative error after the district court abando… |
| 21-7899 |
Francis Paul Sicola v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 21-7901 |
Richard Coleman v. North Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
anti-pro-se-bias civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-overreach obstruction-of-justice pro-se-bias seventh-amendment |
Whether judges judging judges in cases in which one party is not represented results in pro se litigants being victims of judicial criminal acts |
| 21-7902 |
Marc Anthony Lowell Endsley v. California |
Ninth Circuit |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legal-remedy procedural-bar standing vexatious-litigant writ-denial |
Can a vexatious-litigant-order be used to deny a writ-of-habeas-corpus? |
| 21-7903 |
Steve Ballesteros v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment appellate-review attorney-ineffectiveness constitutional-limitation due-process equal-protection federal-habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction procedural-error strickland-v-washington |
Is state-appellate-court-hindering-post-collateral-proceeding-unconstitutional |
| 21-7904 |
Vladimir Duarte v. New York |
New York |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process faretta-standard faretta-v-california self-representation sincerity sixth-amendment unequivocal-request waiver-of-counsel |
Whether a court must assess only the plain language of a defendant's self-representation request or also determine whether the defendant sincerely des… |
| 21-7905 |
Marc Anthony Sanders v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure ex-post-facto jurisdictional-conflict non-retroactivity oklahoma-court state-court-decisions subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court tenth-circuit |
Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals' use of a new non-retroactivity doctrine to deny Petitioner's subject-matter jurisdiction claim is vali… |
| 21-7906 |
Ruben Sanchez v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
IFP |
adequate-representation due-process judicial-consideration legal-representation plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal pro-se public-defender withdrawal |
Does a Pro Se plaintiff have a due process right to the adequate performance of counsel when represented by a public defender for the purpose of withd… |
| 21-7912 |
Jack A. Courtney v. Motorists Mutual Insurance Company |
Ohio |
Denied |
IFP |
establishment-clause first-amendment government-endorsement public-forum religious-display separation-of-church-and-state |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment |
| 21-7913 |
William Earl Sweet v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection faretta-standard fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus harmless-error self-representation timeliness |
Right-to-self-representation |
| 21-7914 |
Andres Santana v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-rights board-of-regents civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus people-v-wende pro-se-brief state-created-liberty-interest wende-procedure |
Whether a California Penal Code §1237(b) appeal is a state-created liberty interest under Board of Regents, and if so, whether the right to file pro s… |
| 21-7917 |
Larry Pride Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
Whether a conflict in the decision at Amended |
| 21-7920 |
Jimmy Lee Wheeler v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction government-misconduct habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard structural-error |
Whether Thin Court Will Cobh, Hat 2 Mant Peet injudiiee. has heen Crrtumven%e d by The lower Courts and Also been diste garde d by The Appellate | Cou… |
| 21-7922 |
Jason Michael Ehret v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus judicial-bias rule-11 standing structural-error uncounseled-counsel void-conviction |
Does an uncounseled guilty plea constitute a structural error that can be raised at any time? |
| 21-7924 |
Timothy S. Smith v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appointment-of-counsel civil-rights due-process pro-se standing |
Whether the courts of Minnesota have the authority to deny a pro se litigant's request for appointment of counsel in a civil rights case |
| 21-7926 |
Jonathan D. Stephen, Jr. v. Palestine Police Department, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation covid-19 due-process eleventh-amendment federal-jurisdiction qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing state-officials |
Whether the plaintiffs' claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for deprivation of their constitutional rights were improperly dismissed |
| 21-7927 |
Lamar Reese v. Richard Bowen, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
citizenship-misrepresentation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence fair-trial plain-error polygraph polygraph-evidence |
Whether the failure to object to the admission of a polygraph examination that contained obvious errors deprived the defendant of a fair trial |
| 21-7929 |
Johnny Joe Avalos v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-murder cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability life-without-parole mitigating-circumstances sentencing texas-penal-code |
Whether an ALWOP sentence on an intellectually disabled adult convicted of capital murder as provided by Texas Penal Code Section 12.31(a)(2) a statut… |
| 21-7930 |
Daniel Coleman v. Minneapolis Public Schools |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure fraud inherent-authority jurisdiction relief voluntary-dismissal |
Whether trial courts have jurisdiction or inherent authority to grant relief from a voluntary dismissal in which there have been allegations of fraud … |
| 21-7932 |
Sameer Muhammad v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process florida-constitution judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction mandate trial-court-authority |
Whether the trial court was without jurisdiction to enter an order reinstating the previous order vacating offense under double jeopardy principle des… |
| 21-7933 |
John Armstrong, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
case-determination civil-rights criminal-adjudication criminal-procedure due-process legal-interpretation recidivism-calculation sentencing sentencing-containment statutory-interpretation supreme-court violent-offense |
Whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 21-7935 |
Jason K. Feister v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law district-court due-process judicial-review legal-order petitioner-rights separation-of-powers |
WHETHER THE SECOND DISTRICT'S ORDER VIOLATES THE PETITIONER'S RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS |
| 21-7936 |
Jeffrey E. Akard v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
benefits civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus incarceration retroactive-rule section-2255 special-appointment standing substantive-law |
Whether a disabled veteran has personal stake, interest, or standing to seek that his withheld 2021 benefit, due to his incarceration, receive a 'spec… |
| 21-7937 |
Richard Rodrick MacDonald v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arbitration-act arbitration-award authority contract contract-enforcement dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act federal-claims-court federal-court judicial-authority parties |
Did the United States Court of Federal Claims lawfully invalidate this Arbitration Award? |
| 21-7940 |
Jason P. Thomas v. Morris Houser, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Benner Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy evidentiary-hearing fabricated-evidence ineffective-assistance jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing |
Whether the District Court erred in disposing of Petitioner's claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel surrounding the failure to litigate a v… |
| 21-7941 |
Linda A. Petralia v. American Express National Bank |
New Hampshire |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction due-process judicial-discretion res-judicata rule-of-law state-court-jurisdiction summary-judgment |
Whether the state court abused discretion and violated due process by reopening a dismissed case |
| 21-7943 |
Anthony Gerald Wernsman v. Colorado |
Colorado |
Denied |
IFP |
colorado-courts confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process harmless-error self-incrimination witness-intoxication |
whether-confrontation-rights-were-violated |
| 21-7944 |
Linda A. Petralia v. American Express National Bank |
New Hampshire |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion breach-of-contract civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process plain-error res-judicata superior-court |
Is the N.H. Superior Court's allowance of a second, same-named breach of contract claim against the Rule of Law, Res Judicata, a plain error that viol… |
| 21-7945 |
Nathan B. Byerly v. Idaho, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Whether the legal issues being raised |
| 21-7946 |
Jesse Manuel Skinner v. GPCH-GP, Inc., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure injunctive-relief pro-se section-1983 standing without-prejudice |
whether-pro-se-plaintiff-has-right-to-withdraw-complaint-without-prejudice |
| 21-7947 |
Cedric Greene v. Harbor Police, et al. |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
amendment-interpretation case-records civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process judicial-immunity legal-standards punitive-damages rights-protection standing vexatious-litigant |
Whether the petitioner was wrongfully identified as a vexatious litigant in the Court of Appeals case |
| 21-7949 |
John D. Horton v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure agency-action class-action due-process federal-agency federal-contractor federal-debt-garnishment garnishment notice notice-requirements statutory-interpretation |
Did the courts below improperly construe the notice requirement of 31 U.S.C. § 3720D(b)(2) and 31 C.F.R. § 285.11(e)(1)? |
| 21-7955 |
Michael Palma v. Harris County Appraisal District, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bill-of-rights civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct libel state-law state-sovereignty |
Do federal judges have the absolute right to ignore the laws of the State in which they sit and while doing so libel the Petitioner? |
| 21-7962 |
Jimmie Spratt v. Timothy Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure direct-appeal district-court due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review lozada-precedent lozada-v-deeds |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying a certificate of appealability, which deprives the petitioner of a direct appeal from the … |
| 21-7963 |
Steven Strong Bear Stevenson v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights content-neutrality free-speech government-regulation public-forum viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether the First Amendment protects the right of private citizens to participate in a public forum, even if their participation is deemed offensive o… |
| 21-7964 |
Estevan Saucedo v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
coerced-confession confession-admissibility constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule law-enforcement-conduct miranda-rights police-misconduct police-tactics |
Was Appellant's Confession Admissible Since He Was Coerced by Illegal Police Tactics? |
| 21-7966 |
Michael G. Peters v. David Hittner, Judge |
Fifth Circuit |
Dismissed |
IFP |
abuse-of-power civil-rights constitutional-rights cover-up due-process free-speech government-misconduct obstruction-of-justice political-cover-up |
Whether the government's cover-up of evidence and obstruction of justice to prevent the due process of science violates the Constitution |
| 21-7969 |
Jose de Jesus Lopez-Gomez v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 21-7972 |
Demajio Jerome Ellis v. Indiana |
Indiana |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-claims criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review post-conviction post-conviction-relief standing supreme-court-appeal |
Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals erred in affirming the post-conviction court's denial of my post-conviction petition for relief |
| 21-7977 |
Jason Albert Halda v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing disproportionality eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing miller-montgomery-rule miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana proportionality-review sentencing-guidelines |
Is Jason Halda entitled to a resentencing? |
| 21-7978 |
Patrick Clay Kunkel v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation confrontation-clause double-jeopardy due-process newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Where petitioner received a conviction for premeditated attempted murder and attempted manslaughter of two individuals, were such that petitioner was … |
| 21-7980 |
Perry Singo v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-independence political-influence political-interference separation-of-powers state-constitution |
Are the attacks on the judiciary and the efforts of politicians to change the judiciary so it will do things the politicians want it to do denying due… |
| 21-7981 |
Jeffrey Ray Sundwall v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights credibility criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartiality judicial-misconduct legal-ethics public-trust |
Whether a trial-induced conviction can be valid when brought by uncredible persons who are guilty of misconduct, both in the instant case (specific, D… |
| 21-7983 |
Allen James Harrison v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain sixth-amendment |
Whether Petitioner was denied due process under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments when retained counsel admitted fault concerning a plea bargain, co… |
| 21-7985 |
Freddie Glover v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal capital-crime constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury information-charging notice opportunity-to-be-heard state-counsel subject-matter |
Whether Glover's Due Process Rights were violated by not allowing him opportunity to respond to State Counsel Answer Brief prior to the court making a… |
| 21-7986 |
Stephen Gosch v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-disclosure fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct state-court |
Did the state court violate the petitioner's right to due process of law as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment? |
| 21-7989 |
Peter Vu v. San Francisco Police Department, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-review pleading-standard prison-litigation-reform-act stare-decisis u.s-constitution |
Whether the Iqbal & Twombly fact-pleading standard applied and extended in the Ninth Circuit through the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) in Hebbe … |
| 21-7990 |
Jerry Lee Craig, Sr. v. Brent Fluke, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-bias standing |
Whether conflict of interest existed at trial after judge gamed the withholding of evidence from the defense |
| 21-7991 |
Mario Mandell Moore v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection identification-procedure identification-procedures police-misconduct show-up-identification show-up-identifications writ-of-certiorari |
Whether petitioner is entitled to a writ of certiorari where Michigan has denied him due process, equal protection and ignored the dictates of this Co… |
| 21-7993 |
Louis Neptune v. Andrew Carey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process ex-parte-communication federal-procedure judicial-immunity probable-cause procedural-rules recusal standing |
Whether the lower courts violated due process, exceeded their jurisdiction, and failed to follow the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure |
| 21-7995 |
Joseph Kurz v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ex-post-facto fifth-circuit fourteenth-amendment reasonable-jurists sixth-amendment |
Whether reasonable jurists would determine there was sufficient evidence to support convictions |
| 21-7996 |
George Edward Purdy v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment blockburger-rule criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment jurisdiction plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion venue |
Where identical charges are filed for the same alleged victim in multiple counties, is it a violation of the 5th Amendment double-jeopardy rule based … |
| 21-8000 |
Elijah Johnson v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure general-verdict inconsistent-verdicts jury-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Whether a reviewing court may uphold a general verdict by relying on a specific fact the jury rejected as not proved beyond a reasonable doubt, in lig… |
| 21-8001 |
Charles James v. Thomson Sailors Homes, L.L.C., et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
architectural-works circuit-split copyright-infringement copyright-scope fee-shifting legal-standard qualitatively-significant-similarity thin-copyright-protection thin-protection |
Scope of copyright protection for architectural works |
| 21-8002 |
Daniel Taylor v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process griffin-v-illinois innocence judicial-integrity jury-verdict miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction prosecutorial-conduct trial-transcript |
whether-the-failure-to-provide-a-trial-transcript-violates-due-process |
| 21-8003 |
Loretta Jean Alford v. Merit Systems Protection Board |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-judge administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process hearing hearing-request merit-systems-protection-board standing witness witness-testimony |
Did the Merit Systems Protection Board violate Petitioner's civil-rights, due-process, hearing, witness, administrative-procedure |
| 21-8005 |
Mark M. Lowe v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment access-to-courts amendment-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights department-of-corrections due-process human-needs judicial-disqualification pro-se-appellant standing |
Whether the denial of basic human needs violates individual rights under the 6th, 8th, and 14th Amendments to the United States Constitution |
| 21-8006 |
Charles A. Inko-Tariah v. Federal Medical Center Butner, NC, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment medical-malpractice unreasonable-search-and-seizure |
Was the U.S Court of Appeals For The Fourth Circuit correct in affirming the dismissal of a lawsuit against Federal Medical Center, Butner, North Caro… |
| 21-8007 |
In Re Michael David Hower |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 aedpa criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-rules habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel massaro-v-united-states plea-withdrawal |
Has AEDPA created an unconstitutional barrier that has rendered the petitioner's remedy under 28 U.S.C. §2255 inadequate or ineffective? |
| 21-8009 |
Joshua Rodney Meech v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922a6 appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process firearm-regulation huddleston-v-united-states mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states standing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-bailey |
Whether the prosecution was lawfully brought under 18 USC §922(a)(6) where the petitioner never possessed, acquired, paid for, or left a deposit for a… |
| 21-8010 |
Louis Gonzalez v. Elaine E. Bucklo, Magistrate Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process immigration in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure notice plra standing |
Whether the Seventh Circuit adopted an opinion conflicting with its earlier decision and other courts |
| 21-8011 |
David Reese v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights court-records criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct standing |
How can the lower courts rule against my motions that I had filed in their courts and say that my allegations are frivolous when the documents show I … |
| 21-8012 |
Soraya Maria Rigor v. Dale Carlsen, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process intellectual-property punitive-damages racketeering special-relationship takings university-trustees |
Question not identified |
| 21-8013 |
In Re Mark Stinson |
|
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law circuit-court circuit-executive civil-procedure court-of-appeals federal-courts federal-statute judicial-administration mandamus statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Circuit Executive Staff of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is in violation of 28 U.S.C. § 1361 |
| 21-8014 |
Reginald Woods v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 district-court district-court-discretion first-step-act policy-statement sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether U.S.S.G. § 1B1.13 is an 'applicable' policy statement that binds a district court in considering a defendant-filed motion for sentence reducti… |
| 21-8015 |
Jeffrey Kinzle v. Eric Jackson |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-reasoning state-courts statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether a federal court may 'look through' to review the decision of an inferior court when the high court offers additional reasoning |
| 21-8016 |
John Edward Burr v. Denise Jackson, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-due-process de-novo-review due-process federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus postconviction state-court witness-statement |
Where the State withholds the statement of a critical witness from the state court during the postconviction adjudication of a claim under Brady v. Ma… |
| 21-8019 |
Levelt Dewarren Musgraves v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-law-application juvenile-lifers parole sentencing sentencing-modification state-court-review |
Whether the Wisconsin state courts failed to conduct a complete review of the Public Interest Justice Initiative (PIJI) sentencing issue, and whether … |
| 21-8020 |
Ronald Mitchell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
§2255-motion 21-usc-841 certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure drug-abuse drug-distribution heroin-possession ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel serious-bodily-injury |
Was trial counsel constitutionally ineffective for failing to consult or hire an expert witness in drug abuse |
| 21-8021 |
Frank W. Coon v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion compassionate-release criminal-justice district-court-discretion first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether the District Court Abused its Discretion by Denying Mr. Coon's Motion for Compassionate Release? |
| 21-8023 |
Xingfei Luo v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
content-based-restriction content-based-restrictions dating-relationship effective-assistance-of-counsel first-amendment fourteenth-amendment nude-photography nudity privacy privacy-expectation |
Where an individual does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in an image, the State's interest in protecting the individual's privacy interes… |
| 21-8024 |
Demarcus Antonio Taylor v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-claim due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-bar standing |
Did the panel of the Fifth Circuit err by deciding the merit of an appeal not properly before the Court to justify the denial of a Certificate of Appe… |
| 21-8025 |
Christopher Thieme, aka John Thieme v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3664 all-writs-act criminal-law criminal-procedure illegal legal-relief restitution restitution-order sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation writ-of-audita-querela |
Does 18 U.S.C. §3664(k) and (0) permit a defendant to file a motion to vacate a restitution he asserts is illegal? |
| 21-8027 |
Derek J. DeGroot v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
competency conflict-of-counsel counsel-conflict faretta-colloquy faretta-v-california pro-se-representation self-representation sixth-amendment timeliness trial-court-discretion |
Does the Sixth Amendment require a trial court to conduct a competency colloquy where a defendant makes a mid-trial demand to represent himself? |
| 21-8028 |
Ryricka Nikita Custis v. Virginia |
Virginia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 1st-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection state-action |
Whether the Petitioner's Constitutional Rights Were Violated Under The Constitution Of Virginia and the United States Constitution? |
| 21-8029 |
Hunter Adam Melnick v. Colorado State Board of Parole |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
10th-circuit caprice-and-arbitrariness constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-review parole parole-hearing statutory-guidelines |
Did the Petitioner present enough evidence to show the denying of a constitutional right |
| 21-8030 |
Andre Marcus Buchanan v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a career-offender criminal-procedure due-process plain-error plain-error-review reasonableness sentencing |
Whether Mr. Buchanan's sentence is unreasonable because it is greater than necessary to accomplish the goals of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) |
| 21-8031 |
Michael G. Peters v. United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction standing supreme-court |
Whether the federal courts have jurisdiction to review the merits of a petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States |
| 21-8032 |
Michael G. Peters v. Innocent Projects of Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection fundamental-rights marriage sexual-orientation |
Whether the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause and the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause prohibit the government from denying a person'… |
| 21-8034 |
Robert Lawrence v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-procedure defendant-motion first-step-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is the Eleventh Circuit's decision in United States v. Bryant correct in determining that Section 1B1.13 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines is… |
| 21-8035 |
Charlie John Williams v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) conviction-review criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis |
Whether Petitioner's conviction under 18 U.S.C. section 924 (c) remains valid under the Supreme Court's holding in United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. … |
| 21-8036 |
Jason Slaughter v. Delaware |
Delaware |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights guilty-plea IAD-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default speedy-trial waiver |
Did petitioner's attorney provide ineffective assistance of counsel sufficient to constitute cause for a procedural default |
| 21-8037 |
Larry Blakney v. South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process electronic-privacy fourth-amendment privacy probable-cause search-and-seizure standing traffic-stop warrantless-search |
Whether the court erred in allowing the warrantless surveillance and search of the petitioner's cell, which violated his Fourth Amendment rights |
| 21-8038 |
Alberic Nault v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
blood-draw breath-test fourth-amendment medical-condition probable-cause search-and-seizure unconscious warrant-requirement warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment always permits a warrantless blood draw without consideration of the totality of the circumstances |
| 21-8039 |
George Munoz, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-homicide criminal-procedure different-outcome evidence-limitation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions motion-for-new-trial prejudice reasonable-likelihood trial |
Whether a defendant is required to show a reasonable likelihood of a different outcome at trial to establish prejudice from ineffective assistance of … |
| 21-8040 |
Dominique Brown v. Burgess McCowan, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-tort due-process prosecutorial-immunity qualified-immunity section-1983 standing state-action |
Can government attorneys be sued under Section 1983 for violating constitutional rights? |
| 21-8041 |
Markentz Blanc v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidentiary-standards judicial-interpretation procedural-protections standing state-law vagueness-doctrine |
Whether an unaddressed Constitutional claim not affirmatively contradicted by the record deserves review, and if so, should review under Due Process C… |
| 21-8042 |
Etheria Verdell Jackson v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors constitutional-rights death-penalty hurst-v-florida jury-recommendation jury-trial sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right |
Whether a jury's advisory recommendation of death which does not identify the specific aggravators found, nor whether the aggravators were found unani… |
| 21-8044 |
Bobby Dewayne Thompson, II v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-defense due-process firearm-possession ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions right-to-counsel second-amendment trial-strategy |
Did trial counsel entirely fail to present a defense to illegally possessing a firearm by conceding that Thompson possessed a gun when the court's ins… |
| 21-8045 |
Marcellus Overton v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence guilty-plea materiality materiality-standard plea-withdrawal reasonable-defendant rule-11 united-states-v-dominguez-benitez |
When a defendant seeks to withdraw his or her guilty plea based upon the Government's failure to timely disclose exculpatory evidence, is the 'materia… |
| 21-8046 |
Joseph Martin Danks v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment criminal-culpability cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment inmate-rights mental-health state-liability state-responsibility |
Does the Eighth Amendment preclude the execution of a seriously mentally ill inmate whose homicidal behavior was the reasonably known, foreseeable, an… |
| 21-8047 |
Santiago Esquivel v. Gary Miniard, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus miranda-rights post-arrest-silence prosecutorial-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-circuit |
did-the-sixth-circuit-err-in-failing-to-find-the-district-court's-decision-on-the-prosecutor's-reference-to-petitioner's-silence-as-debatable-or-wrong |
| 21-8048 |
Michael Ray Kapp v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court compassionate-release criminal-justice federal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing summary-affirmance |
Whether the Denial of Michael Kapp's Motion for Compassionate Release Was an Abuse of Discretion? |
| 21-8049 |
Thomas Tate Tunstall v. Hope Daigle, fka Hope D. Theriot |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection ex-parte-young fourth-amendment section-1983 statute-of-limitations |
Whether the doctrine of Ex parte Young allows a federal court to exercise jurisdiction over a claim seeking return of illegally seized property |
| 21-8050 |
Brad Allen Dunn v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection first-amendment public-university religious-freedom standing student-organization takings viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether the court erred in denying the petitioner's motion to dismiss the respondent's complaint |
| 21-8052 |
Rene Sanchez-Quintero v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8053 |
Ron Delano Kuntz v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-representation conflict-of-interest crime-of-violence critical-stages cuyler-v-sullivan district-court jury-trial sentence-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether a conflict arises when trial counsel's concurrent representation ends prior to trial |
| 21-8054 |
Carlos Johnson v. Dan Reddington, Warden |
Missouri |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law habeas-corpus hearsay probation-revocation |
Whether criminal defendants in probation revocation proceedings should be provided a more robust right to confrontation under the due process clause, … |
| 21-8055 |
In Re Shane Jeansonne |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pro-se pro-se-petition rules-of-interpretation section-2255 standing |
Writ of Mandamus |
| 21-8056 |
Earl Lee King v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process federal-law habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence procedural-impediment standing state-court-action state-created-impediment |
Has the action by the Court af Criminal Appeals of Texas in dismissing Petitioners State Application for Habeas Corpus Violated Article I, Section A, … |
| 21-8057 |
Cliffrie Morgan v. St. Francis Hospital |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 21-8058 |
Alejandro Pascual-Miguel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8059 |
Jesus Morales-Agustin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8060 |
Darrell Cordell Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-authority constitutional-limits federal-power felon-in-possession firearms-regulation police-power second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether Congress exceeded its authority in enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)) |
| 21-8062 |
Bryant Love v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing modified-categorical-approach sentencing-enhancement state-supreme-court statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
When applying the categorical and modified categorical approach sentencing courts are instructed to use a state's statutory definition to determine if… |
| 21-8064 |
Antonio D. Shannon v. Randall Hepp, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
counsel-obligations criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel right-to-testify sixth-amendment |
whether-the-defendant-has-the-right-to-testify |
| 21-8065 |
Arthur Glenn Jones, Sr. v. Sam Wong, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
9th-circuit atrophy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process informed-consent judicial-discretion medical-care medical-negligence prisoner-rights psychotropic-medication standing |
Did the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals abuse its discretion? |
| 21-8066 |
Christopher Darnell Wilson v. South Carolina, et al. |
South Carolina |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-error due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-bias multi-district-litigation res-judicata separation-of-powers subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Question not identified |
| 21-8067 |
Juan Gomez v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
child-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure culpability due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability sixth-amendment |
Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when his trial counsel failed to investigate and presen… |
| 21-8068 |
John Burke v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conflict-of-interest criminal-defense due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rico-case right-to-testify withdrawal-defense witness-testimony |
Should an attorney afraid of their client be allowed to represent the client without the client's knowledge? |
| 21-8069 |
Billy Wayne Lewis v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure fourth-amendment rodriguez-precedent rodriguez-v-united-states search-and-seizure supreme-court-guidance unreasonable-search |
Has the Tenth Court of Appeals of the State of Texas made a decision in this instant case that is in direct conflict with this Court's decision and gu… |
| 21-8072 |
Erik Daniel Salgado-Castellano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres appellate-procedure case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8073 |
Leihinahina Sullivan, aka Jen, aka Jennifer, aka Jennifer Sullivan, aka Lei Sullivan, aka Lei v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction collateral-order-doctrine court-of-appeals criminal-procedure divestiture-rule final-judgment non-appealable-order pro-se pro-se-status sentencing-phase |
Can a criminal defendant immediately appeal the revocation of her pro se status by a district court judge sua sponte during the trial? |
| 21-8074 |
Juan Jesus Barrieta-Barrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment parole sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 21-8075 |
Ricky Bagola v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-801 advisory-range controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines federal-statute prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2(b) |
Is the term 'controlled substance' in § 4B1.2(b) limited to those substances defined and regulated under the federal Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S… |
| 21-8076 |
Siva K. Durbesula v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure enhanced-punishment enhanced-punishments judicial-fact-finding jury sixth-amendment special-assessment speedy-trial-act supervised-release |
Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a jury rather than a judge to determine facts which are used to apply enhanced punishments including the period o… |
| 21-8078 |
Daniel Taylor v. Leslie Fleming, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appointment-of-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights due-process pro-se standing |
Question not identified |
| 21-8079 |
Kenyad Laquan Kelly v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion legal-standard sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether the District Court Erred in Applying a Different Starting Point for Defendant's Sentence than the United States Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 21-8080 |
Travis Horne v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure district-court error-of-law excusable-neglect federal-rules-of-civil-procedure final-judgment inadvertence mistake relief-from-judgment rule-60b surprise |
Whether Rule 60(b)(1) authorizes relief based on a district court's error of law |
| 21-8082 |
Arthur Houze v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons retroactivity sentencing-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether non-retroactive changes in sentencing law can constitute extraordinary and compelling reasons for compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582… |
| 21-8086 |
Jeremiah F. Wooden v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-record guilty-plea ineffective-assistance informed-consent meritorious-defenses plea-bargaining plea-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether plea counsel has a duty to advise of the impact of a conviction on his client's criminal record before a guilty plea |
| 21-8087 |
Zachary S. Keeter v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
addiction criminal-defense criminal-law due-process expert-testimony improperly-prescribed-medication involuntary-intoxication judicial-discretion medication-addiction mental-health psychosis-claim |
Should a person whose addiction is the result of improperly prescribed medication be allowed an involuntary intoxication defense? |
| 21-8089 |
Darrell E. Gillespie v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
§924(c)-offense 924c categorical-approach civil-rights conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-procedure davis-precedent due-process force-elements-clause pinkerton-liability |
Whether the invocation of Pinkerton theory of liability by the government, without more, obviates the government's requirement to satisfy the force/el… |
| 21-8090 |
Angelo C. Pearson, II v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-claim constitutional-claims equitable-remedies equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus merits-review plain-error procedural-default state-prisoner |
Whether 'extraordinary circumstances' are present when a state prisoner's record shows a constitutional error that meets the federal 'plain error' sta… |
| 21-8091 |
Jermaine Jackson v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the defendant's constitutional rights were not violated and in not granting a new tri… |
| 21-8092 |
Nicole R. Bramwell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-U.S.C.-3553a 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3661 abuse-of-discretion appellate-review below-guideline-sentence collateral-consequences downward-variance sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review |
When can a court of appeals reverse a below-guideline sentence based on its own view that a different, more severe sentence is appropriate? |
| 21-8093 |
Albert Aiad-Toss v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-USC-3553a abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure district-court-discretion procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness supervised-release |
Whether Mr. Aiad-Toss's lifetime supervised release term was procedurally unreasonable |
| 21-8095 |
Dennis Ray Davis, Jr. v. Commissioner, Caddo Parish, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process federalism preemption sovereign-immunity standing |
Whether the Eleventh Amendment bars a federal court from enjoining state officials from enforcing an unconstitutional state law |
| 21-8097 |
Thomas Randall Ainsworth v. Robert Powell, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-laws due-process equal-protection sentencing statutory-interpretation utah |
Whether the differing penalties established by Utah's drug and measurable substance provisions violate due process or equal protection |
| 21-8099 |
Darnell McConnell, II v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-act federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether 'controlled substance[s]' in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the fede… |
| 21-8100 |
Luis Antonio Molina-Rivas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8101 |
Marco Antonio Marin-Maldonado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres certiorari constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8102 |
Rodrigo Jimenez-Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8104 |
Frederick Williams v. Toll Brothers Builders, et al. |
Delaware |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure complaint-response default-judgment failure-to-answer judicial-discretion motion-for-default relief-demanded service-of-process time-limitation time-to-answer |
Is there something called a default judgment and how does it come into play? |
| 21-8105 |
Rashaun Antonio Taylor v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 21-8106 |
Jay Jurdi v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure government-misconduct ineffective-assistance jurisdictional-issue legal-standard preservation-of-error procedural-question self-incrimination sentencing statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari |
Was Brent's counsel ineffective for failing to object to, and thereby preserve for review, the government-intended use of a novel, self-incriminating … |
| 21-8107 |
Keith Undray Ford v. Suzanne M. Peery, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adjudication criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-statute habeas-corpus legal-interpretation presumption-of-innocence presumption-of-law state-court state-courts |
When an issue before a state court is resolved by an assumption of fact, as opposed to a factual finding, has the issue before the state court been 'a… |
| 21-8108 |
Daniel Gallegos-Quirino v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8109 |
Eric Ray Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
or whether the court of appeals should first cons ambiguity contract-interpretation cooperation-agreement criminal-procedure government-as-drafter judicial-construction plain-error-review plea-agreement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a reasonable ambiguity in a cooperation or plea agreement necessarily defeats a defendant's claim of breach on plain error review, or whether … |
| 21-8110 |
In Re Wesley Mark Sudbury |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine due-process evidence evidentiary-restrictions interlocutory-appeal judicial-procedure statutory-interpretation wire-tap |
Whether a statute enacted by Congress titled Prohibition of use as evidence of intercepted wire or oral communications, intended to establish a right … |
| 21-8112 |
Jaime Luevano v. Ivanka Trump, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Dismissed |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims alleging violations of their constitutional rights under the First and Fourth Amen… |
| 21-8114 |
In Re Jordan Cordell Hudson |
|
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights court-filing due-process exceptional-circumstances legal-review mandamus procedural-validity standing supreme-court-procedure supreme-court-rules timeliness writ-of-certiorari |
Where the service of the Supreme Court of the United States was denied |
| 21-8115 |
Latoya Nicole Carter v. Virginia |
Virginia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-entry law-enforcement search-and-seizure trespass unlawful-arrest use-of-force |
Whether the Fourth Amendment forbids a law enforcement officer from trespassing into a resident's home by shoving his foot into the doorway through th… |
| 21-8116 |
Demarco Tempo v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
but-for-causation causation criminal-law death-enhancement drug-statute due-process jury-instructions pinkerton-liability proximate-cause sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Should the government be required to prove proximate cause in addition to but-for causation for the 'death results' enhancement in 21 U.S.C. § 841? |
| 21-8117 |
Xavier Jamaal Orange v. United States |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
counsel-error criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel molina-martinez molina-martinez-v-united-states prejudice sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a defendant claiming ineffective assistance of counsel at sentencing can establish prejudice from a Sentencing Guidelines error despite the se… |
| 21-8118 |
Myron Dejuan Orr v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-U.S.C.-3553(a) 18-U.S.C.-3582(c) 18-usc-3553a 18-usc-3582c abuse-of-discretion circuit-split extraordinary-and-or-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentencing-disparity |
Whether the lower courts' rulings amount to an abuse of discretion when failing to consider that a disparity in sentencing amounts to an abuse of disc… |
| 21-8119 |
Waymon J. Stepherson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment brady-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-against-self-incrimination self-incrimination voir-dire |
Whether the lower court erred and abused its discretion in not finding petitioner was deprived of his 5th and 14th amendment rights |
| 21-8120 |
Willie Alfred Green v. Delijah Washington |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-claim brady-claims due-process effective-assistance false-evidence guilty-plea materially-exculpatory-evidence perjured-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Are Brady claims available for defendants who plead guilty when the prosecution withholds materially exculpatory evidence? |
| 21-8121 |
Leila Varetta Hector, aka Leila Varretta Hector, aka Leila Varetta Hector-Dykes, aka Rita Hector v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-853 circuit-court-decision constitutional-law criminal-forfeiture forfeiture forfeiture-award honeycutt-precedent honeycutt-v-united-states joint-and-several-liability statutory-interpretation |
Whether the imposition of joint and several liability on a forfeiture award under 21 U.S.C. § 853(a) violates the Court's holding in Honeycutt v. Unit… |
| 21-8122 |
Jeremiah Henderson v. Austin K. McClain |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-tort first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement probable-cause retaliatory-arrest retaliatory-prosecution section-1983 |
Does probable cause defeat a retaliatory prosecution claim |
| 21-8123 |
Terry Malone v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment mandatory-presumption patterson-v-new-york rebuttable-presumption |
Did the superior court violate the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment and the dictates of this court in 'Patterson v. New York', 432 U.S. … |
| 21-8124 |
Kywon A. Datham v. United States |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights compassionate-release criminal-procedure danger-to-community due-process incarcerated-persons judicial-discretion rule-35b sentence-reduction sentencing time-bar |
whether District of Colombia Count of Appeels errel . hen it denicd petitioner's fequest for Somameny reversal? |
| 21-8125 |
Carlos Montano v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
boykin-standard change-of-plea-hearing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony-conviction ninth-circuit plea-bargaining plea-hearing substance-abuse |
did-the-ninth-circuit-overlook-boykin-and-its-progeny |
| 21-8126 |
Alex Clarfeld, Individually and on Behalf of His Minor Child, P. M. v. Hawaii Department of Education |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
disability-law due-process educational-placement individuals-with-disabilities-education-act prior-written-notice procedural-rights school-officials special-education stay-put-provision unilateral-placement-change |
Does the 'stay-put' provision of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act imply a right to prevent school officials from unilaterally changing … |
| 21-8127 |
Russell Kimble Jackson, aka Russell Kimble Jackson, V v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-convictions federal-sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 21-8128 |
Duane Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standard mandatory-conditions revocation-hearing standard-conditions supervised-release witness-testimony |
Whether the district court erred by revoking Mr. Williams' supervised-release-status-and-returning-him-to-prison |
| 21-8130 |
Monica Ruiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation substantive-element wire-fraud |
Is the interstate nexus required in § 1343 a substantive element of the crime of wire fraud? |
| 21-8131 |
Daniel A. Rodriguez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process newly-discovered-evidence plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation |
Does a Silonk Plea Foraclose a ddfondant From flint a Mlohion For Newly Discovered Evitelone@. |
| 21-8132 |
James E. Sanicki, Jr. v. Chris S. Buesgen, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review biased-juror constitutional-review due-process judicial-procedure jury-selection legal-standard peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes reversal standard-of-review |
Whether errors in jury selection resulted in seating a biased juror, or deprivation of the mandated number of peremptory challenges should have been r… |
| 21-8133 |
Gary L. Boyle v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-precedent course-of-conduct criminal-acts criminal-sentencing discretionary-sentencing federal-guidelines guidelines judicial-interpretation same-course-of-conduct sentencing-discretion separate-course-of-conduct united-states-v-booker |
What constitutes a 'separate course of conduct' in the discretionary sentencing context? |
| 21-8134 |
Jacquere Doran v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-procedure waiver |
Whether the District Court Erred in Ruling that Petitioner Waived an Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Claim Based on a Fourth Amendment Violation? |
| 21-8135 |
Zachary Chandler v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adversarial-testing criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-sympathy sixth-amendment sympathy-defense trial-strategy |
Whether counsel was ineffective due to defense strategy |
| 21-8137 |
David Lee Green v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure entrapment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell reasonable-jurists sixth-amendment strategic-decision undercover-operation |
Whether an attorney's decision to forego a viable defense can be considered 'strategic' if the attorney misunderstood the law |
| 21-8138 |
Lawrence J. Gerrans v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure first-amendment free-exercise religious-rights sixth-amendment structural-error trial-rights |
May a district court prohibit a defendant from possessing and consulting a Bible during a criminal trial? |
| 21-8139 |
Duenta Grier v. Georgia |
Georgia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
availability confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process government-agent minors testimonial-hearsay witness-availability |
Was the Confrontation Clause violated? |
| 21-8140 |
Richard Chippero v. Matthew J. Platkin, Acting Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process insufficient-evidence legal-sufficiency sufficiency-of-evidence |
Should Petitioner's convictions be vacated due to insufficient evidence? |
| 21-8141 |
Christopher G. Poeschl v. Foundation Building Materials, LLC, et al. |
Colorado |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency expert-testimony judicial-discretion legal-fraud perjury prejudice structural-error trial-procedure trial-procedures |
Whether or not fraud solidified the Colorado Appeals Affirmation |
| 21-8143 |
Marcus Branch v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-offense criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process parole parole-board sentencing separation-of-powers |
Was the double-jeopardy clause violated? |
| 21-8144 |
Tavares J. Wright v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment flynn-effect fourteenth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability iq-testing moore-v-texas |
Whether failing to apply the Flynn effect to a capital defendant's intelligence quotient scores violates the Eighth Amendment |
| 21-8146 |
Gregory Thomas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act judicial-procedure legal-standard sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court abused its discretion by failing to follow the law and determine a defendant's eligibility for First Step Act relief, in viola… |
| 21-8148 |
Frank H. Bynes Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
GVR |
IFP |
controlled-substances criminal-law due-process medical-practice prescription-drugs professional-ethics |
Whether a physician alleged to have prescribed controlled substances outside the usual course of professional practice can be convicted of unlawful di… |
| 21-8149 |
Jesus Rodriguez-Castro v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres constitutional-law criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit overruling-precedent rodriguez-castro statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent united-states writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8150 |
Lorenzo Shelton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-privacy exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment parole parole-conditions reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether the lower courts erred in allowing the Petitioner's cell phone to be searched just because he was on State parole |
| 21-8151 |
Eric X. Rambert v. District Attorney of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
career-criminal civil-action civil-procedure civil-rights classification due-process false-imprisonment fraud judicial-review legal-relief lower-court-error standing |
Did the Lower Court Err in dismissing Appellants Civil Action for a lack of Stating a Claim for which Relief May be Granted? |
| 21-8152 |
Filiberto Chavez, aka Big Boy, aka Freeway Beto v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion lesser-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum |
Can a sentencing court use the elements of a lesser offense to increase a defendant's sentence in a different, legally unrelated, offense beyond the o… |
| 21-8153 |
Michael Tisius v. Paul Blair, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-circuit certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest death-penalty eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statutory-interpretation |
Was the denial of a COA proper? |
| 21-8154 |
Anthony Brian Williamson v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bulk-data-collection fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence fourth-amendment-protections surveillance-techniques unreasonable-searches-and-seizures |
Whether the FBI's use of bulk data collection and surveillance techniques violates the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches an… |
| 21-8156 |
Demetrius Antwon Wilson v. Jeffrey Alvarez, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-treatment prisoner-rights |
Whether prison officials are deliberately indifferent when they delay or intentionally interfere with medical treatment |
| 21-8157 |
Demetrius Antwon Wilson v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
affidavit civil-procedure costs declaration poverty redress |
Whether the petitioner is entitled to proceed in forma pauperis |
| 21-8158 |
Larry Jose Torrez-Gutierrez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8159 |
Danny Leon Lynch, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 21-8160 |
Jamie M. Coffey v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process griffith-v-kentucky judicial-precedent retroactive-application retroactivity |
Do the State and Federal courts violate a petitioner's 14th Amendment Right to due process when they decline to apply a new rule governing a criminal … |
| 21-8161 |
Onofre Tommy Serrano v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1443 civil-rights civil-rights-removal criminal-prosecution due-process equal-protection federal-defense federal-jurisdiction federal-removal jurisdiction removal statutory-interpretation |
Does besa domed equal cunt 2) airts oO» the basis of gelato { colae pursuant t> UL USC ¢ 20004{4) quelily foe Removel pubs tnt to 12 USC & \\443 0? |
| 21-8162 |
Darnell Pearson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution mens-rea reasonable-foreseeability serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation |
Whether a charge of drug distribution requires proof of defendant's knowledge of drug type and reasonable foreseeability of death/injury |
| 21-8163 |
Benjamin Perez-Jimenez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent legal-procedure sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8164 |
Michael L. Pinkney v. Kenneth Black, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure due-process federal-courts judicial-misconduct standing |
Whether the district court legally dismissed the appeal without a hearing, in violation of due process |
| 21-8165 |
Darryl Keith Rolle v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection rule-of-lenity sentencing |
Whether Florida Statute section 775.021(1) concerning the rule of lenity is being unconstitutionally applied to defendants in violation of the due pro… |
| 21-8166 |
Ricky Vincent Pendleton v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation coram-nobis due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct |
Did the presentation of gruesome photographs to each grand juror violate the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments? |
| 21-8167 |
Xue Jie He, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-1251 article-three civil-procedure constitution federal-jurisdiction original-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction state-sovereignty supreme-court |
Whether this Court has original jurisdiction over this action and personal jurisdiction over the parties pursuant to Article II Section 2. of the Cons… |
| 21-8169 |
Ghassan Hage v. Fida Mhanna |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights default-judgment due-process due-process-violation family-law fraud fraud-upon-court judicial-abuse-of-discretion judicial-misconduct legal-ethics |
Where Fraud upon the Court became normal in Family Justice Center in Santa Clara county, Department 76 when a lawyer committed numerous count of Fraud… |
| 21-8170 |
Samuel Gaines, Jr. v. Brooks L. Benton, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights court-fraud criminal-law due-process federal-procedure fraud-on-the-court judicial-interference legal-obstruction obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct standing state-procedure |
Whether the lower court's order violated the Petitioner's constitutional and statutory rights by disrespecting the authority of the United States Dist… |
| 21-8171 |
Lamar Keith Garvin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing defendant-characteristics due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range sentencing-variance |
Whether the district court abused its discretion in not granting the defendant a variance sentence |
| 21-8172 |
Juan Manuel Contreras-Zamora v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fifth-amendment interrogation interrogation-rights legal-communication miranda-rights re-initiation right-to-counsel self-incrimination suspect-invocation waiver |
Whether a suspect who states 'Look man, 'm going to tell you just like this; I need my lawyer' must have a lapse of time before being deemed to have r… |
| 21-8173 |
Vincent Raymond Rios v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel language-barrier language-rights plea-bargaining |
Should the Ninth Circuit have vacated Mr. Rios's guilty plea for lack of a knowing and voluntary waiver of his constitutional rights |
| 21-8174 |
Scott Svoboda v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-client-privilege attorney-client-relationship confiscation criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-strategy |
Whether a criminal defendant is denied his right to the effective assistance of counsel |
| 21-8175 |
Adrian Castro v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals due-process government-objection habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-jurisdiction sua-sponte sua-sponte-review |
Whether the Court of Appeals may sua sponte raise an alleged inadequacy of its own Certificate of Appealability after the parties have fully briefed t… |
| 21-8176 |
Marice Nalls v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravated-rape armed-robbery constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial prescribed-charge prescription simultaneous-trial |
Whether Petitioner's Constitutional right to a fair trial was violated |
| 21-8177 |
Marlin Larice Joseph v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-safeguards cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourth-amendment geographic-arbitrariness sixth-amendment standards-of-decency |
Does the death penalty violate the Eighth Amendment? |
| 21-8178 |
Jing Hua Wu v. Eric Arnold, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-fabrication habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury prosecutorial-misconduct standing trial-procedure |
Jury-Misconduct |
| 21-8179 |
Terrance Washington v. Eric Tice, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement |
Whether petitioners' Fourth Amendment rights were violated when they were arrested without a warrant and subjected to a warrantless search and seizure |
| 21-8180 |
Rives Grogan v. United States |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burwell-v-hobby-lobby court-of-appeals hobby-lobby-precedent punishment-magnitude religious-exercise religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act substantial-burden supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred, contravening Supreme Court precedent set forth in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., by weighing Mr. Grogan's al… |
| 21-8181 |
Joshua Hayes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-vagueness delegation-of-authority due-process judicial-delegation probation-conditions probation-officer sentencing-guidelines supervised-release vagueness |
Whether the imposition of Standard Condition (12), U.S.S.G. § 5D1.3(c)(12), violates a defendant's right to Due Process because the condition unconsti… |
| 21-8182 |
Reuben Conway v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction indictment indictment-defect jurisdiction mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
Whether an indictment's failure to charge the essential mens rea element renders federal courts without jurisdiction |
| 21-8183 |
Manuel Aurelio Martinez-Covarrubias v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 21-8184 |
Michael Kelly v. Jeremy Larson, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights disproportionate-sentence ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance plea-colloquy postconviction-counsel sentencing-proportionality |
whether-effective-assistance-of-counsel-was-denied |
| 21-8185 |
Michael Andrew Johnson v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the plaintiffs' claims for lack of standing |
| 21-8186 |
In Re Douglas Cornell Jackson |
|
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-authority district-court due-process filing-refusal habeas-corpus petition-rights pro-se standing |
Whether the United States District Court Clerk was constitutionally authorized to refuse to file a pro se litigant's petition for habeas corpus |
| 21-8187 |
Jesse Bell v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-sentencing constitutional-standard due-process mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt ring-v-arizona standard-of-proof |
Whether the Due Process Clause requires the additional determinations under Florida's capital sentencing scheme to be made beyond a reasonable doubt |
| 21-8188 |
Joe Davis, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
client-advice constitutional-rights criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-offer right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel requires counsel to advise his client whether acceptance or rejection of a pl… |
| 21-8189 |
Serge Francois v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law ex-post-facto fraud managed-care network-application pharmacist-fraud pharmacy utilization-review |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit reversibly erred in affirming the conviction of a pharmacist for completing accurate pharmacy network applications with n… |
| 21-8193 |
Robert D. Keith v. Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-amendment civil-rights color-of-law conflict-of-interest due-process eleventh-amendment judicial-immunity state-court title-iv-d |
Does a State Judge have authority to preside over a case when they have a conflict of interest? |
| 21-8194 |
Richard Reynolds, et al. v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-agency administrative-law constitutional-review corrections due-process first-amendment free-speech prison-regulations sexually-explicit-materials turner-standard turner-v-safley |
Whether a state administrative agency can deny access to publications protected by the First Amendment based on incarceration status |
| 21-8195 |
Arthur Lee Robinson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act borden-v-united-states criminal-sentencing firearm-discharge illinois-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation use-of-force violent-felony |
Whether the Illinois offense of aggravated discharge of a firearm qualifies as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act after Borden v. Un… |
| 21-8196 |
Cody Andrew Anderson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review booker-standard criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error plain-unreasonable reasonableness sentencing supervised-release |
Whether appellate review of a sentence imposed after the revocation of a defendant's supervised-release term is for reasonableness or merely to see if… |
| 21-8197 |
Michael James Bosman v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alternatives criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement-conduct police-conduct precedent probable-cause reasonableness reasonableness-standard search-and-seizure seizure |
Did the Tenth Circuit misapply this Court's precedent, and wrongly reject Mr. Bosman's Fourth-Amendment-claim, when it dismissed the availability of a… |
| 21-8198 |
Ruben Cabrera Saucedo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure davis-precedent district-court-discretion double-jeopardy motion-to-vacate sentence-modification sentencing unconstitutional unconstitutional-conviction united-states-v-davis |
Whether, after a motion to vacate sentence is granted on a conviction that is unconstitutional under United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), a… |
| 21-8200 |
Daniel Louis Jackson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance kimmelman-v-morrison privacy-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure standing strickland-v-washington warrant-particularity |
whether-counsel-provided-ineffective-assistance-for-failing-to-file-a-meritorious-motion-to-suppress |
| 21-8202 |
Eric Watkins v. Officer Shields, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights digital-search due-process fourth-amendment government-action probable-cause property-rights search-and-seizure takings territorial-jurisdiction warrant-authority |
Whether the government's seizure of a person's property without just compensation violates the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment |
| 21-8203 |
Galina Rytsar v. Lonnie Oliver, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Cambridge Springs |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure deportation-consequences discovery due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus impeachment-of-witnesses ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right translation |
Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
| 21-8204 |
Reginald Brown v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture ineffective-counsel pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel severance sixth-amendment |
Whether the district court erred by denying the motions for severance? |
| 21-8205 |
Bobby Charles Byrd v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-flight constitutional-rights due-process false-evidence fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel-of-choice sixth-amendment |
whether-mr-byrd-was-denied-effective-assistance-of-appellate-counsel |
| 21-8206 |
Noble Laverne Bennett v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing sentencing-review |
Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in denying Bennett's appeal without an opportunity to be heard |
| 21-8207 |
Jamal A. Azeez v. Cedrick Robertson, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Dismissed |
IFP |
actual-innocence aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act brady-evidence civil-rights due-process factual-innocence judicial-conspiracy standing statute-of-limitations |
Whether the lower court condoned systemic injustice knowing that the petitioner is 'factually innocent' |
| 21-8208 |
Homer Jones v. Luke Pettigrew, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus interstate-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity sovereign-nation treaty |
Is a treaty between Sovereign Nations over an individual State's Laws? |
| 21-8209 |
Alan M. Leschyshyn v. AbbVie Inc., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arizona-law case-filing civil-procedure collateral-estoppel contemporaneous-filing issue-preclusion judicial-discretion prior-decision summary-judgment |
Whether the lower court erred or abused its discretion in granting summary judgment based on collateral estoppel where the record showed the Arizona c… |
| 21-8211 |
Richard Vincent Letizia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extradition federal-appeals habeas-corpus identity-dispute |
Whether the State of Texas can grant extended bail without first meeting the burden of proving the petitioner's identity? |
| 21-8213 |
James York v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion administrative-remedies asthma compassionate-release covid-19 criminal-procedure discretionary-review federal-corrections sentencing-factors |
Whether the District Court Abused its Discretion by Denying Mr. York's Motion for Compassionate Release? |
| 21-8214 |
Miguel Andres-Tomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial precedent-review recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8215 |
Nathaniel Ausbie v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process government-theory jury-instructions legal-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
When a defendant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence for his conviction, may a court of appeals affirm based on a theory different from the one… |
| 21-8216 |
Roy Lee Dykes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions sentencing |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's rulings on the defendant's motions regarding weapons evidence, prejudicial testimon… |
| 21-8217 |
Herbert Bernard Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-code federal-criminal-law mens-rea prosecutorial-discretion sexual-activity sexual-offense statutory-interpretation statutory-language |
Whether the statutory language of 18 U.S.C. §2422(b)'s 'any sexual activity for which any person can be charged with a criminal offense' element requi… |
| 21-8218 |
Ramik Banks v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-conflict due-process federal-appellate-review habeas-corpus jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia legal-precedent standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence third-circuit |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit entered a decision in this case that conflicts with its decision in Travillion v. Sup… |
| 21-8219 |
Dante Danil Carter v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure doyle-v-ohio due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment miranda miranda-rights post-miranda-silence self-incrimination |
Whether the California trial court deprived Carter of his 5th and 14th Amendment rights by permitting the prosecution to impermissibly use his post-Mi… |
| 21-8221 |
Isiah Paul Mendez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering criminal-law north-carolina north-carolina-criminal-law predicate-offense statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states united-states-supreme-court united-states-v-johnson |
Whether the North Carolina crime of breaking and entering can be a predicate for the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 21-8222 |
Abdur-Rashid Muhammad v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts fifth-amendment judicial-discretion leave-to-amend pro-se pro-se-litigants standards-of-practice standing |
Whether the Fifth Amendment prohibits federal courts from holding pro se litigants to the same stringent standards as attorneys |
| 21-8223 |
Fox Joseph Salerno v. United States District Court for the District of Colorado |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 circuit-split custodian federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus interstate-compact prisoner-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Should a 28 USC 2241 HC be filed in State of incarceration or State of conviction for a State prisoner serving sentence in another State under Inter-s… |
| 21-8224 |
Arthur L. Gurbey v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split compelled-self-incrimination criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment minnesota-v-murphy polygraph polygraph-testing self-incrimination supervised-release |
Whether a condition of supervised release impermissibly compels a defendant to answer any questions posed during any examination during the period of … |
| 21-8225 |
Luis Adrian Carchi-Fernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8226 |
Eric C. Sutherland v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa-statute-of-limitations constitutional-claim habeas-corpus indictment indictment-sufficiency jurisdictional-challenge new-evidence procedural-default schlup-standard schlup-v-delo subject-matter-jurisdiction |
If an indictment omits an essential element and a prisoner files a §2255 after AEDPA's one-year statute of limitations has passed, in asserting his in… |
| 21-8227 |
Jose Fernando Ochoa-Fabian v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8228 |
Angel Daniel Caraballo v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standards habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health sworn-testimony |
Whether defendant is entitled to a competency hearing |
| 21-8231 |
Fidel Torres-Villanueva v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-8232 |
Stephon Ellis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment judicial-discretion mitigating-factors mitigation-factors proportionality proportionality-principle sentencing-guidelines traumatic-background traumatic-childhood |
Whether the 90-month sentence imposed on Mr. Ellis was 'greater than necessary' considering his extraordinarily traumatic childhood |
| 21-8233 |
Barkley Gardner v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-1959 criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-criminal-law punishment-alternatives racketeering sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether a court may punish a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a) by a fine instead of death or life imprisonment |
| 21-8234 |
Bithomas Ceasar, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
bureau-of-prisons commitment competency competency-hearing criminal-procedure district-court judicial-authority mental-health-commitment restoration statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court lacks authority to order additional competency restoration commitment under 18 U.S.C. § 4241(d)(2) |
| 21-8235 |
Joshua Dicks v. Natasha Davis |
Arkansas |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
attorney-diligence civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-litigants parental-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant waiver-of-appeal |
Whether the Arkansas Court's application of 'attorney diligence' waiver of right to appeal rules to pro se litigants in private termination of parenta… |
| 21-8236 |
Edward Toliver v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appeal-waivers circuit-split criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fairness-doctrine plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines |
Are plea agreement appeal waivers that forfeit a criminal defendant's right to challenge errors in the district court's interpretation and application… |
| 21-8237 |
Odece Dempsean Hill v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington forensic-nurse-examiner melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts ninth-circuit sexual-assault sexual-assault-victim testimonial-statements |
Whether the Confrontation Clause permits the prosecution to introduce the testimonial statements of a non-testifying sexual-assault-victim lay-witness |
| 21-8238 |
James Seeley v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2252a constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment proportionality sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-authority statutory-interpretation |
What is the correct United States Sentencing Guideline for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. 2252A? |
| 21-8239 |
Lawrence L. Crawford, aka Johah Gabriel, aka Jahjah T. Tishbite v. Kenneth Nelson, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure sanctions separation-of-powers spoliation standing |
Does the filing submitted by the petitioner(s) serve as a functional equivalent to an informal brief? |
| 21-8240 |
Clayton Jones v. South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction speedy-trial standing |
Does the denial of a speedy trial violate due process rights? |
| 21-8241 |
Randy Lassiter v. Gerald Jenkins, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment |
Whether the US Court of Appeals erred in granting respondents' motion for summary judgment in favor of defendants |
| 21-8243 |
Michael Shane Bargo v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-defense due-process ineffective-assistance plea-of-not-guilty presumption-of-innocence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error |
Did Mr. Bargo show that a violation of his rights occurred, pursuant to McCoy, when he explicitly entered a plea of not guilty and maintained his inno… |
| 21-8244 |
In Re Dominic M. Franza |
|
Dismissed |
IFP |
14th-amendment 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus liberty-interest statutory-relief unconstitutional-imprisonment |
When a petitioner's imprisonment is unconstitutional |
| 21-8245 |
Felix I. Gaspard v. BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP, et al. |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection foreclosure judicial-immunity property-rights takings |
Whether the judiciary has jurisdiction to effectuate the 'Taking without due process and without just compensation' of a pro se black disabled senior … |
| 21-8246 |
Richard D. Bostwick v. 44 Chestnut Street, Wakefield, Massachusetts, et al. |
Massachusetts |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-immunity reasonable-accommodation regulatory-taking standing substantive-due-process |
Whether the Remedies, Procedures and Rights set forth in the Americans with Disabilities Act are unconstitutional |
| 21-8249 |
Sammy L. Page v. Audrey King, Acting Executive Director, California Department of Mental Health |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 circuit-court due-process habeas-corpus party-presentation pretrial-detention statutory-interpretation |
Does a circuit court abuse its discretion and violate the party-presentation principle by adjudicating a habeas-corpus-petition under 28-usc-2254 when… |
| 21-8250 |
Deandre McIntosh v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
buyer-seller buyer-seller-rule criminal-intent criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process government-burden-of-proof knowledge knowledge-requirement stake sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether a defendant can be convicted of drug conspiracy when he was no more than a buyer-seller and the government failed to establish he had knowledg… |
| 21-8251 |
John L. Miller v. S. Acosta, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights due-process judicial-bias religious-rights standing |
Is the Ish Amendment right of access to the courts violated? |
| 21-8252 |
Isaac Jude Rodriguez v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process excusable-neglect jurisdiction jurisdictional-time-limit legal-filing procedural-rules state-court writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the court of appeals correctly concluded that petitioner's motion for certificate of appealability was filed untimely |
| 21-8254 |
Bryant Calloway v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process grand-jury guilty-verdict judicial-review material-perjury perjury petit-jury precedent structural-error |
Whether material perjury before the grand jury should be considered structural error not cured by a guilty verdict |
| 21-8255 |
Christopher Alexander Reilly v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 appeal appellate-rights certificate-of-appealability due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress notice-of-appeal section-2255 |
Whether the district court and court of appeals should have granted a certificate of appealability |
| 21-8256 |
Ortaz Sharp v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure due-process government-abandonment government-appeal judicial-discretion party-presentation sentencing sentencing-hearing sineneng-smith statutory-interpretation |
Whether a court of appeals violates the party-presentation principle |
| 21-8258 |
Luke D. Patterson v. R. M. Wolfe, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arbitration civil-rights contract due-process jurisdiction retroactivity |
Whether the recent precedents affecting arbitration clauses should be applied retroactively |
| 21-8260 |
Tracy Garrett v. Warden, FCC Coleman-USP II |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review certiorari-standard circuit-split consent constitutional-violation federal-question fourth-amendment search-and-seizure supervisory-power warrantless-search |
Whether the 11th Circuit erred in declining to entertain a 4th Amendment violation issue |
| 21-8261 |
Elgin Z. Haynie v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal conviction due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-representation sentencing |
Whether a state court of appeals violates due process when a defendant is denied the right to appeal their conviction and effective assistance of coun… |
| 21-8262 |
Antonio Jones v. Frank Vanihel, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process fourteenth-amendment police-investigation right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence witness-credibility |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments were violated |
| 21-8263 |
John Matthias Watson, III v. Nevada |
Nevada |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-murder criminal-procedure defendant-autonomy mccoy-precedent mccoy-v-louisana right-to-autonomy sixth-amendment trial-counsel unauthorized-concession |
Is it a concession of guilt by trial counsel which violated Mr. Watson's longstanding right to autonomy and the Sixth Amendment holding of McCoy v. Lo… |
| 21-8264 |
Ashley Georges v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa aedpa-statute brady-v-maryland brady-violation court-of-appeals due-process equitable-tolling exculpatory-evidence fundamental-rights state-disclosure |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit improperly applied the AEDPA statute of limitations is subject to equitable tolling |
| 21-8265 |
Michael S. Gorbey v. United States |
District of Columbia |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appointment-of-counsel compassionate-release constitutional-rights covid-19 criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified |
| 21-8266 |
Timothy Wayne Calhoun v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affidavit civil-procedure court-filing declaration financial-disclosure in-forma-pauperis indigent-status legal-proceeding poverty prisoner-rights |
Whether the petitioner's affidavit or declaration in support of a motion to proceed in forma pauperis satisfies the legal requirements |
| 21-8267 |
Dave Lawrence v. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
equitable-tolling habeas-corpus immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief retroactive-constitutional-right retroactivity time-limitation |
Whether the Padilla decision has retroactive effect |
| 21-8268 |
Roger Acosta v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution indictment indictment-defect mens-rea rehaif-standard structural-error |
Whether a federal prosecution is structural error when a grand jury indicts a defendant for conduct that is not a federal offense? |
| 21-8269 |
James Paris Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines advisory-range criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness upward-variance |
Did the district court impose a substantively unreasonable sentence when it varied upward from the advisory sentencing range? |
| 21-8270 |
Dora L. Adkins v. Driftwood Special Servicing, LLC |
Fourth Circuit |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure en-banc en-banc-petition fourth-circuit judicial-procedure petition-for-rehearing petition-for-writ-of-certiorari rehearing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit further erred in the Order, Dated, May 23, 2022, that denied Petitioner's Petition f… |
| 21-8271 |
Raul Garcia-Salazar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-8272 |
Robert Edward Guerra v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction felon-in-possession firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause? |
| 21-8273 |
Jesus Fernando Fierro-Renteria v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 21-8274 |
Melvin Martinez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
covid-19 criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error plain-error-review plea-bargaining plea-hearing virtual-proceedings |
Whether the 'reasonable probability of prejudice' showing required for plain error review of plea hearing defects was met where the petitioner informe… |
| 21-8275 |
James Lawrence v. Hearst Communications, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
arrest-reporting civil-rights criminal-characterization defamation due-process free-speech journalistic-ethics media-defamation media-law privacy substantial-truth warrant-interpretation |
Can a media organization repeatedly dox a past arrest insinuating conviction without clarifying if the arrest ever became a conviction? |
| 21-8276 |
Isidoro Reyes-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-8277 |
Matthew Michael Cimino v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors? |
| 21-8278 |
Glen Hunsberger v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking due-process fifth-amendment mens-rea statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the aggregation of two statutes, one requiring specific intent and the other strict liability, results in a vague statute in contravention of … |
| 21-8279 |
Randy William Gay v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-defendant capital-punishment effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-jury fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire |
Whether a capital defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments rights to a fair and impartial jury and to the effective assistance of counsel are viola… |
| 21-8280 |
James Michael Forney v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process electronic-dockets federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-notice procedural-dismissal rule-4 section-2254 timeliness |
Whether Rule 4 of the Rules Governing Section 2254 Cases allows the district court to research online electronic dockets, take judicial notice, and di… |
| 21-8281 |
Jose Carreon-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-8282 |
Allan M. Leavitt v. United Services Automobile Association, et al. |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights contract-dispute declaratory-relief due-process federal-jurisdiction injunctive-relief lance-v-dennis rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine specific-performance standing |
Did the Court of Appeals violate Petitioner's rights when it relied on the Rooker-Feldman doctrine as authority and affirmed dismissal his Complaints … |
| 21-8284 |
In Re Matthew Lee Staszak |
|
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence due-process forensic-report habeas-corpus judicial-review mandamus obstruction-of-justice writ-of-mandamus |
Whether the Supreme Court should issue the writ of mandamus to mandate the lower court's review of a forensic report surrounding petitioner's substant… |
| 21-8285 |
Darryll Justin Lee Reed v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure indian-law judicial-precedent jurisdiction mcgirt-rule procedural-law retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-law tribal-sovereignty |
Is McGirt a Substantive or Procedural rule? |
| 21-8286 |
Thomas Richie McBride v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process judicial-proceedings jury-trial repeat-offender sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the trial court proceedings constituted a mistrial that voided the 1984 judgment and sentence |
| 21-8287 |
Michael D. Phillips v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
burglary civil-rights criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-instructions prosecutorial-burden reasonable-doubt sentencing |
Did the prosecutor ever prove all prongs and elements for being a felon in possession? |
| 21-8288 |
William Jack Parkerson v. Oregon |
Oregon |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accomplice-instructions court-of-appeals due-process federal-standard harmless-error oregon-court-of-appeals trial-evidence trial-procedure |
Did the oregon court of appeals apply the correct federal harmless error standard violating Due Process, when viewing the evidence at trial when it de… |
| 21-887 |
Miguel Luna Perez v. Sturgis Public Schools, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (12)Response RequestedRelisted (4) |
administrative-proceedings americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-rights exhaustion-requirement futility-exception individuals-with-disabilities-education-act money-damages statutory-interpretation |
Whether the IDEA's exhaustion requirement applies when the plaintiff's non-IDEA claim has been dismissed from IDEA proceedings and the plaintiff has s… |
| 21-975 |
Idaho v. Aaron James Howard |
Idaho |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
dog fourth-amendment law-enforcement narcotics-detection probable-cause search search-and-seizure seizure vehicle vehicle-search |
When officers lawfully deploy a narcotics-detection dog on the exterior of a vehicle and, without any direction, prompting, or facilitation by officer… |
| 22-1 |
Lynn Brown, as Appointed Successor and Representative of Now Deceased Howard M. Berry v. Christine E. Wormuth, Secretary of the Army, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
administrative-procedure-act agency-review civil-procedure deference government-procedure judicial-review military military-deference standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) incorporates a presumption of 'unusual deference' in all cases involving the military" |
| 22-101 |
Martin Cowen, et al. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
ballot-access congressional-district equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment signature-requirements third-party third-party-candidates |
Does a State violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments when its ballot-access restrictions on third-party candidates for United States Representativ… |
| 22-106 |
Tamrat Asrat v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
None |
|
| 22-11 |
SawStop Holding LLC v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 35-usc-102 35-usc-103 judicial-authority non-statutory-double-patenting patent patent-eligibility patent-law statutory-interpretation ultra-vires |
Does the judiciary have the authority to require a patent applicant to meet a condition for patentability not required by the Patent Act? |
| 22-110 |
Julian D. Schmidt v. United States |
Armed Forces |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-endangerment child-protection criminal-law intent-standard mens-rea physical-proximity proximity-definition sensory-awareness statutory-interpretation |
Does the ambiguous phrase 'in the presence of a child' require the child to be aware of the conduct through a sensory connection, regardless of physic… |
| 22-113 |
Bradley Jacobs Shumway v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
Response Waived |
common-law corpus-delicti due-process ex-post-facto judicial-exception legal-sufficiency retroactive-application |
Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas denied Mr. Shumway due process of law |
| 22-116 |
Connecticut State Police Union v. James Rovella, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
collective-bargaining contracts-clause freedom-of-information police-accountability police-misconduct public-accountability public-sector retroactive-legislation |
Whether Connecticut Public Act 20-1 violates the Contracts Clause |
| 22-117 |
Oussama El Omari v. The International Criminal Police Organization, aka INTERPOL |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration immunity international-organization ioia jam-v-intl-fin-corp public-international-organization statutory-construction treaty-interpretation treaty-ratification |
Whether INTERPOL is entitled to immunity as a 'public' international organization under 22 U.S.C. § 288 of the IOIA as interpreted by Jam v. Intl Fin.… |
| 22-12 |
D. H. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. |
West Virginia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment burden-of-proof child-welfare due-process parental-rights state-intervention |
Whether the termination of a natural mother's parental rights based on her refusal to confess to allegations when the state bears the burden of proof … |
| 22-128 |
Michelle Herczeg v. City of Dallas, Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection police-misconduct retaliation sexual-harassment |
Is the denial of a fair trial or appeal rights for a decorated police officer who was a victim of sexual assault and harassment repugnant to the Const… |
| 22-13 |
Nicholas James Imhoff v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion rental-car search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-search |
Whether a person driving a rental car is sufficient factual basis during a routine traffic stop to create reasonable suspicion to perform a vehicle se… |
| 22-130 |
Lonnie Tofsrud v. City of Spokane, Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
chain-of-command civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech officer-misconduct pickering-garcetti-framework public-employee public-employee-speech supervisor-retaliation whistleblower whistleblower-protection |
Does a city police detective's complaint to a county attorney about officer misconduct meet the test for private speech? |
| 22-133 |
Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Kronos Incorporated |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal-dismissal civil-procedure collateral-estoppel constitutional-procedure court-docketing due-process fee-waiver improperly-decided-case judicial-conflict-of-interest precedent-review standing trustees-of-dartmouth-college-v-woodward |
Whether dismissing an appeal when a fee waiver Motion is pending is constitutional |
| 22-14 |
Brad Faver v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review burden-of-proof burden-shifting civil-rights district-court-finding due-process free-speech least-restrictive-means religious-accommodation sincerely-held-belief standing vendor-policy |
Whether the Appellate Court erred in failing to shift the burden to the Defendant's once Mr. Faver established a sincerely held belief that was burden… |
| 22-141 |
Michelle McDonald-Witherspoon, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Kenyada Jones v. Amber Browne, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights disability due-process equal-protection mental-disability mental-health probation-officer section-1983 |
Whether a probation officer's actions violate the disabled person's rights under the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment, giving rise to a c… |
| 22-143 |
Jada Ku v. Great Falls Public Library |
Montana |
Denied |
Response Waived |
accommodation civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process legal-representation mental-disability public-library supreme-court |
Can the Great Falls Public Library discriminate against me because of my mental disability? |
| 22-144 |
Mahesh Khatri v. Ohio State University, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
academic-freedom biosafety-regulations bioterrorism-act civil-rights disability-discrimination employee-speech first-amendment free-speech garcetti-exception whistleblower |
Is petitioner's reporting of misuse of 'select infectious agents' in BSL-2 lab protected speech? |
| 22-146 |
Tracy Smith v. Georgia |
Georgia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
Whether it is a violation of the Sixth Amendment for trial counsel to fail to object to a jury instruction that sanctioned a non-unanimous verdict |
| 22-15 |
Sean David Duckett, Sr. v. Jefferson Parish Department of Public Works-Streets |
Louisiana |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-service civil-service-board classified-employees constitutional-rights due-process employee-termination loudermill notice-requirement personnel-rules pre-deprivation-notice procedural-due-process termination |
whether-jefferson-parish-personnel-rules-comport-with-due-process |
| 22-155 |
Hiral M. Patel v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bourjaily-v-united-states confrontation-clause confrontation-rights crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure davis-v-washington due-process dutton-v-evans evidence-admission michigan-v-bryant penal-interest testimonial-statement |
Whether a statement against penal interest made by an inmate/declarant can qualify as a 'testimonial' statement under Crawford v. Washington |
| 22-156 |
David Douglas Fennell v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anti-SLAPP-law civil-rights constitutional-rights equal-protection federal-preemption free-speech jury-trial jury-trial-rights political-assembly right-to-assemble |
Is California's anti-SLAPP law constitutional? |
| 22-16 |
Business Exposure Reduction Group (BERG) Associates, LLC v. Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
12(b)(6) civil-procedure dismissal inference-drawing inferences judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss pleading-standard pleadings rule-12b6 state-of-mind twombly-standard |
Whether the courts below deviated from and disregarded this Court's holding in Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly |
| 22-168 |
Ryan James Deroo v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-law due-process evidence evidence-rule ex-post-facto hearsay hearsay-exception medical-records retroactive-modification state-rule |
Whether a retroactive modification of a state rule of evidence allowing certain medical records to be admitted as admissible hearsay which was previou… |
| 22-17 |
Vaxima, Inc., et al. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2461 breach-of-contract criminal-conviction criminal-forfeiture honeycutt-decision honeycutt-v-united-states indictment statutory-interpretation |
Whether a criminal forfeiture judgment against Petitioners is permitted under Honeycutt |
| 22-19 |
Ukraine v. PAO Tatneft |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
|
arbitral-award arbitration civil-procedure foreign-arbitral-award foreign-proceedings forum-non-conveniens international-arbitration international-law judicial-confirmation jurisdiction jurisdictional-doctrine |
Whether the doctrine of forum non conveniens is available in proceedings to confirm a foreign arbitral award in the United States |
| 22-2 |
Susan M. Boltz-Rubinstein v. Bank of America, N.A. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11-usc-362 agency-relationship automatic-stay bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-stay contractual-control damages damages-limitation lift-stay mortgage-servicer |
Whether a purported agency relationship between a lift stay beneficiary and a mortgage servicer is a defense to an uncontested stay violation under th… |
| 22-20 |
John Klaas v. Allstate Insurance Company |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
allstate benefit-termination circuit-court-interpretation contract-interpretation early-retirement eleventh-circuit employee-rights erisa erisa-benefits retirement-benefits |
Did the Eleventh Circuit critically err by concluding that the written agreements by the parties unambiguously reserved to Allstate the right to termi… |
| 22-21 |
Abdur-Rahim Dib Dubar v. Department of Community Affairs |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment federal-jurisdiction immunity-waiver procedural-default standing taking-clause takings waiver |
Was Petitioner's Amended Complaint considered in All Courts? |
| 22-24 |
Vincent Gabriel v. El Paso Combined Courts, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights dismissal due-process judicial-immunity motion-to-dismiss prejudice prosecutorial-immunity standing |
Is it appropriate for a trial court to dismiss a complaint with prejudice prior to allowing an individual at least one opportunity to amend the compla… |
| 22-26 |
Larry G. Junker v. Medical Components, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
commercial-offer contract-law federal-circuit on-sale-bar patent-infringement patent-invalidation prior-art standing third-party-quotation |
May a price quotation invoke the on-sale bar when made by a third party who had no right to sell the invention and with no involvement by the patentee… |
| 22-27 |
Alyssa Jones v. Riot Hospitality Group, LLC, nka Noatoz LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-jurisdiction cell-phone-privacy cell-phones civil-litigation civil-rights due-process injunctive-relief privacy privacy-interests riley-v-california standing sua-sponte-order |
Whether orders requiring the turn over of cell phones for cloning and global searching have the practical effect of granting or denying an injunction … |
| 22-29 |
Richelle D. Wallace v. City of Hampton, Virginia, et al |
Virginia |
Denied |
|
actual-malice constitutional-interpretation curtis-publishing-co-v-butts defamation first-amendment free-speech libel-law new-york-times-v-sullivan public-figure |
Whether the actual-malice standard should be reconsidered for public-figure defamation cases |
| 22-3 |
Save Coral Bay, Inc. v. Albert Bryan, Jr., Governor of the Virgin Islands, et al. |
Virgin Islands |
Denied |
Response Waived |
coastal-zone-management environmental-protection federal-duty federal-territorial-power judicial-review public-review statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause territorial-law trust-obligation |
When a territory enacts a law that contravenes a duty imposed by federal law, must the territory's judiciary look beyond whether the law was properly … |
| 22-32 |
John Hart v. County of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-defense due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-present-defense scientific-evidence voiceprint-analysis |
Where a criminal defendant has compelling evidence of actual innocence in the form of exculpatory expert voiceprint analysis, does that defendant rece… |
| 22-34 |
Wei-Ping Zeng v. Marshall University, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
|
adverse-employment-action civil-procedure discrimination-claim employment-retaliation federal-rules-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-proceedings record-on-appeal standing supervisory-power |
Whether the lower courts have departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings by refusing to provide Petitioner the record on appe… |
| 22-36 |
Karim Christian Kamal v. Joseph A. Farrow, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
attorney-fees attorneys-fees circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process economic-damages fraud national-origin-discrimination rico rico-damages |
Do attorney's fees and court costs incurred as a result of fraud constitute RICO economic damages? |
| 22-38 |
CPC Patent Technologies PTY Ltd. v. Apple Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
|
28-usc-1404a federal-circuit jurisdictional-limits mandamus patent-law statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction venue-transfer writ-of-mandamus |
Whether the Federal Circuit has subject matter jurisdiction over a petition for writ of mandamus challenging a denial of a motion to transfer venue un… |
| 22-39 |
Xiu Jian Sun v. R. Craig Lawrence, Assistant United States Attorney, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights divine-intervention due-process judicial-petition jurisdiction mandamus mandarin-interpreter pro-se religious-doctrine religious-freedom spiritual-communication standing |
Whether the plaintiff's claims based on divine revelations and instructions from God are cognizable under the U.S. Constitution and federal law |
| 22-4 |
Donald G. Karr, Jr. v. Mark R. Sevier, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights counsel-rights davis-hatton-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment |
Whether the Davis-Hatton Procedure is unconstitutional as-applied |
| 22-40 |
Isiah Dozier v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-1791 criminal-defendant criminal-defense evidentiary-standard knowledge-requirement prohibited-object rock-v-arkansas rock-v-armenia sixth-amendment witness-testimony |
Can a Trial Court prohibit a criminal Defendant from calling a witness in his own defense, by weighing the probative value of the expected witness tes… |
| 22-41 |
Xiu Jian Sun v. Michael P. Kelly, et al. |
New York |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions divine-intervention due-process freedom-of-religion freedom-of-speech judicial-review legal-filing mandamus-request religious-petition standing |
Whether the civil magistrate has the authority to restrain crime but not control conscience, and whether punishing guilt but not suppressing the freed… |
| 22-43 |
Program Administrator of the New Hampshire Controlled Drug Prescription Health and Safety Program v. Department of Justice |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-subpoena anti-commandeering commandeering drug-enforcement federalism healthcare-program prescription-drug-monitoring state-data state-official state-sovereignty |
Whether an administrative investigative subpoena issued under 21 U.S.C. §876 to a state official commanding her to act in her official capacity to obt… |
| 22-45 |
Jada Ku v. Great Falls Public Schools |
Montana |
Denied |
|
civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-accommodation legal-representation mental-disability public-education school-discrimination standing supreme-court-procedure |
Can the Great Falls Public Schools discriminate against me because of my mental disability? |
| 22-46 |
Ada County, Idaho v. Idaho Commission for Reapportionment, et al. |
Idaho |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause federal-supremacy reapportionment state-administrative-body state-court-review state-redistricting |
Whether principles of federal supremacy and due process permit a nonjudicial state entity to reject claims of federal constitutional rights violations… |
| 22-48 |
AC Interests, L.P. v. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality |
Texas |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-rights clean-air-act due-process emission-reduction-credits equitable-tolling mootness takings takings-clause |
Should the 60-month deadline for using emission reduction credits be equitably tolled? |
| 22-5 |
Peter Cooks v. Contra Costa County, California |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute rehabilitation-act statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Does 28 U.S.C § 1658 supplying a 4 year statute of limitations apply to claims made under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as Amended? |
| 22-50 |
Waseem Daker v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
blood-borne-diseases civil-rights due-process hepatitis-risk hiv-transmission imminent-danger incarcerated-person-rights prison-litigation-reform-act standing three-strikes-provision |
Whether an incarcerated person must allege presently occurring or certain-to-occur serious physical injury in order to successfully invoke the 'immine… |
| 22-5001 |
Robert Carrasco Gamez v. Arizona |
Arizona |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Question not identified |
| 22-5002 |
Richard Winn v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922 18-usc-925 armed-career-criminal constructive-possession criminal-firearms sentencing-enhancement shular-v-united-states statutory-interpretation third-circuit |
Whether the Petitioner should have been sentenced as an Armed Career Criminal (ACCA) |
| 22-5003 |
Ernesto Villalobos-Marquez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5004 |
Eduardo Pena-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5005 |
Gerardo Olvera-Vitela v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent overrule sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5006 |
David Cadena v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum upward-variance |
Did the district court impose a substantively unreasonable sentence when it varied upward from the advisory sentencing range to the statutory maximum … |
| 22-5007 |
Lann Tjuan Clanton, aka Tjuan v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure federal-sting federal-sting-operation fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in dismissing petitioner's appeal pursuant to a plea agreement waiver after petitioner won the right to file a belate… |
| 22-5008 |
Anthony A. Patel v. Sonya Bhatia |
California |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure court-authority due-process judicial-authority judicial-discretion martial-law settlement settlement-agreement sua-sponte-sanctions vexatious-litigant |
Whether courts can impose sua sponte punishments against litigants in cases already settled |
| 22-5010 |
Tedroy Davis v. Jeffrey A. Beard, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights doyle-error doyle-v-ohio due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights ninth-circuit post-miranda-silence |
Did the Ninth Circuit misapply the standard for the issuance of a certificate of appealability (COA) |
| 22-5011 |
Randolph Mays v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-liability law-enforcement qualified-immunity |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standard for qualified immunity |
| 22-5012 |
Kielan Brett Franklin v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence due-process fifth-amendment guideline-range hearsay hearsay-statements hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reliability |
Is substantive reliability required under the due process clause when a district court relies on hearsay statements to enhance a person's sentencing G… |
| 22-5013 |
In Re Megan Kyte |
|
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment due-process false-arrest fourth-amendment habeas-corpus malicious-prosecution search-and-seizure sixth-amendment unreasonable-search |
Was petitioner denied her Fourth Amendment right to a pro se habeas corpus |
| 22-5015 |
Devoris Lamont Jackson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act due-process fifth-circuit supreme-court-precedent texas-aggravated-robbery texas-burglary violent-felony |
Whether Jackson received due process |
| 22-5016 |
Christopher Lee Bryant v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
corroboration criminal-procedure fourth-amendment police-investigation probable-cause recently-arrested-person search-and-seizure warrant warrant-requirement |
Does the Fourth Amendment require police officers to corroborate information obtained from a recently arrested person, whom officers did not know unti… |
| 22-5017 |
Travaris Devon Bishop v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-3553(a) criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the district court ordered a substantively unreasonable statutory maximum sentence |
| 22-5018 |
Michael Allen Long v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure fifth-circuit jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-error standard-of-review waiver |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by finding that Mr. Long's appeal should be dismissed based on the waiver of appeal provision in his Plea Agreement |
| 22-5020 |
Eduardo Che Rodriguez v. Gena Jones, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach criminal-provisions due-process elements judicial-interpretation prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement |
Whether due process requires that the comparison of elements of a prior conviction from a foreign state for sentencing enhancement purposes encompass … |
| 22-5021 |
Palani Karupaiyan v. L. Naganda, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights conjugal-rights due-process false-arrest guardian-ad-litem injunctive-relief parental-rights pro-bono-counsel right-of-access-to-courts |
Question not identified |
| 22-5022 |
Ronald Wayne Thrasher v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights confidential-informant due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant self-corroboration warrant-particularity |
When probable cause is based on a confidential informant, is it sufficient for law enforcement to establish the informant's reliability by the informa… |
| 22-5023 |
Sam Jones, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit judicial-discretion less-culpable-defendant mandatory-minimum sentencing-entrapment supervisory-jurisdiction |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of a motion for judgment of acquittal and a motion for new trial on ground… |
| 22-5025 |
Arthur Luther McKinney v. Gary Painter, Sheriff, Midland County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies prisoner-litigation standing |
Did McKinney exhaust the administrative remedies required by the PLRA? |
| 22-5026 |
Aaron Abadi v. Department of Transportation |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-enforcement air-carrier-access-act circuit-courts civil-rights judicial-review private-action private-right-of-action standing statutory-interpretation |
Is there a right to a private action on violations of the Air Carrier Access Act? |
| 22-5027 |
Justin D. Bennett v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-protections constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process jackson-v-virginia out-of-court-statements sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the due process standard recognized in Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979) constitutionally protects an accused against out-of-court stat… |
| 22-5028 |
Damien Dre Gonzales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adam-walsh-act appeals commerce-clause criminal-procedure district-court federal-kidnapping federal-sentencing guidelines-error harmless-error sentencing-guidelines |
Is a district court's Guidelines error always harmless when the court states that it would have imposed the same sentence regardless of the Guidelines… |
| 22-5029 |
Christopher Michael Fairley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-ruling criminal-procedure due-process error-preservation judicial-discretion legal-objection preservation-of-error standard-of-review |
Whether parties to a criminal proceeding sufficiently preserve error by informing the court |
| 22-5030 |
Paul John Denham v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-protections due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus judicial-bias post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether a criminal defendant's post-conviction habeas petition alleging the district attorney's office engaged in multiple intentional frauds to appea… |
| 22-5032 |
Steven Louis Barnes v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and whether denial of an evidentiary hearing viol collateral-review constitutional-rights direct-appeal due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel remedy |
Is there a distinction between remedies in raising ineffectiveness of constitutional counsel on direct appeal, where constitutional counsel is allowed… |
| 22-5033 |
Curtis Chewning v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
charging-information court-fraud due-process fraud jury jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing unlawful-seizure |
Whether due process is violated by sentence increase based on facts not proven to jury |
| 22-5034 |
Josef Cadwell v. Broderick Flescher, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
disciplinary-action imminent-risk investigation prea-grievance prison-rape-elimination-act sexual-abuse |
Whether a prisoner's PREA grievance alleging imminent risk of sexual abuse requires an initial response within 48 hours and a final decision within 5 … |
| 22-5035 |
Irving Lisboa-Cupely v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit manifest-injustice miscarriage-of-justice plain-error |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court denied due process of the law under the 5th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by failing to issue a certificate of… |
| 22-5036 |
Raleigh Figueras v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2106 circuit-court-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review objective-standard prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
When a circuit court unambiguously and erroneously applies a subjective standard in assessing whether a habeas petitioner has established the prejudic… |
| 22-5037 |
Stephen Todd Booker v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
banks-v-dretke brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure disclosure due-diligence due-process exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct |
May courts impose a due diligence requirement for Brady claims |
| 22-5039 |
Randy Scott Diehl v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief post-conviction-review state-court-review |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the state courts denied his claims of ineffective assistance of counsel and actual i… |
| 22-5041 |
Bradley B. Miller v. Virginia Talley Dunn |
Texas |
Dismissed |
IFP |
attorney-fees bias civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fraud motion-to-dismiss texas-rules-civil-procedure trial-court-judgment void-judgment want-of-prosecution |
Whether the trial court judgments were the result of fraud, and are thus void; and whether such a judgment violates Due Process |
| 22-5042 |
Phillip Shiel v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery statutory-interpretation united-states-v-taylor |
Whether aiding and abetting a Hobbs Act robbery is a 'crime of violence' under the elements clause, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A) |
| 22-5043 |
Romeo Valentin Sanchez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law enhanced-sentencing indecent-acts mandatory-minimum military-justice sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation uniform-code-of-military-justice |
whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in relying upon a now-excised provision to trigger a mandatory minimum penalty under 18 U.S.C. § 2… |
| 22-5044 |
Richard Anthony Siler v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights consumer-protection data-protection direct-appeal due-process frivolous-claims habeas-corpus judicial-procedure privacy standing writ-of-certiorari |
Is it legal for a legitimate leads company to sell personal identities under any circumstance? |
| 22-5045 |
Shaheed Scott, Sr., aka Rodney L. Scott v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights confinement-challenge due-process early-release habeas-corpus parole parole-hearing procedural-defect |
Did the Ninth Circuit Court properly deny habeas petition |
| 22-5047 |
Jermaine Blackwell v. Jeff Nines, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargain plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing trial-counsel trial-strategy |
Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
| 22-5048 |
George A. Pilola v. Craig Koenig, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpation fingerprint fingerprint-evidence napue-v-illinois napue-violation ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review prosecutorial-misconduct |
Should CERTIORARI be granted to review the failure of the prosecution to turn over fingerprint evidence and the untruthfulness of the detective and pr… |
| 22-5049 |
Percy Love, III v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
artuz-v-bennett covid-19 covid-19-exception diligence equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances federal-tolling-doctrine habeas-corpus procedural-timeliness statutory-interpretation |
When is a 2255 petition 'properly filed' under Artuz v. Bennett? |
| 22-5050 |
Johnny M. Ruffin v. David Mitchell |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
admissibility brady-materiality brady-v-maryland circuit-conflict circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression impeachment-evidence materiality suppressed-evidence |
Whether the Seventh Circuit's decision creates conflict with other Circuits regarding the admissibility and materiality requirements under Brady v. Ma… |
| 22-5051 |
Gabriel M. Robles, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights disability-rights due-process energy-assistance equal-protection in-forma-pauperis low-income-assistance poverty poverty-level |
Have the Courts enacted 'Rules' and Congress made laws that serve to deprive the poor and needy, the elderly, and the developmentally disabled, their … |
| 22-5052 |
Fox Joseph Salerno v. Arizona |
Arizona |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment apprendi-rule constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury incorporation precedent subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Should the U.S. Constitutional Fifth Amendment requiring indictments be applied to the States, thereby overturning precedence from 1884; Hurtado v. Ca… |
| 22-5053 |
Jesus Perez-Solis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-5054 |
Tyrik Upchurch v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process evidence-rules expert-testimony expert-witness-testimony judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings lay-witness-testimony new-trial standard-of-review third-circuit trial-error |
Did the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err in failing to award the Petitioner a new trial due to the District Court's error in allowing the go… |
| 22-5055 |
Amin Wadley, aka Jamil Abdul Amin White v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-trial-procedure evidence-rules evidentiary-standards federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement law-enforcement-testimony lay-witness lay-witness-testimony opinion-evidence opinion-testimony |
Whether this Court should set limits on what law enforcement testimony should be admitted as opinion evidence under Federal Rule of Evidence 701 |
| 22-5057 |
Wade Lawrence Duchaine v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922(g) commerce-clause criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element minimal-nexus scarborough-v-united-states statutory-interpretation substantial-nexus |
Can the government establish the interstate commerce element in a § 922(g) prosecution under the minimal nexus standard by only providing evidence tha… |
| 22-5059 |
Rodolfo Oliva-Santos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5060 |
Fred Auston Wortman, III v. Tennessee Board of Parole, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alford-plea civil-procedure complaint-dismissal due-process inferences judicial-procedure plea-agreement pleadings standard-of-review summary-dismissal summary-judgment |
Whether the District Court erred by summarily dismissing Petitioner's Complaint by failing to accept as true all of Petitioner's factual allegations a… |
| 22-5062 |
Zachary Chambers v. R. Thompson, Warden |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession habeas-corpus retroactivity safety-valve-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), renders invalid the imposition of Petitioner's sentencing enhancement for possession of a fir… |
| 22-5064 |
Dervanna H. A. Troy-McKoy v. Mount Sinai Beth Israel |
New York |
Denied |
IFP |
attachment civil-procedure fraud motion relief signature |
Whether the court erred in denying relief based on the alleged fraudulent signature on the attachment to the original motion |
| 22-5065 |
O. L. v. Liliana Jara, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-search consent digital-duplication fourth-amendment possessory-interest privacy search-and-seizure seizure |
When a crime victim's cell phone is searched, what is the scope of consent? |
| 22-5066 |
John Cody, aka Bobby Thompson v. Tim McConahay, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim debatability-review equal-protection-clause habeas-corpus procedural-default sixth-amendment |
Whether a certificate of appealability (COA) debatability review under 28 U.S.C. §2253(c)(2) allows a circuit court to deny debatability of a constitu… |
| 22-5067 |
Benjamin M. Withrow v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
connection-between-causes connection-severed criminal-procedure initial-confinement judicial-discretion multiple-cases sentencing-credit separate-charges wisconsin-law |
Whether Petitioner is entitled to sentencing credit on multiple cases when there is a connection — not between the offenses but between the causes of … |
| 22-5068 |
Michael Jay Stewart v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 22-5069 |
Robert Tracy Warterfield v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
None |
|
| 22-5070 |
Lane Walker Waldron v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-credibility constitutional-rights conviction-reversal habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
Whether petitioner was denied Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel |
| 22-5071 |
Daniel Toney v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment circumstantial-evidence due-process evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment habitual-offender ineffective-assistance montgomery sixth-amendment |
Whether Petitioner's 6th and 14th Amendment rights to due process are being violated by denying claims based on assumption and not facts |
| 22-5072 |
Basil Bey v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence-rule-701 evidentiary-standards federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement-testimony opinion-evidence uniform-standards witness-testimony |
Whether this Court should set limits on what law enforcement testimony should be admitted as opinion evidence under Federal Rule of Evidence 701 |
| 22-5074 |
Kurtis D. Worley v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-negotiations post-conviction-relief seizure settlements |
Whether petitioner's due process of law was violated by detectives' illegal seizure of petitioner's settlements while in public, violating petitioner'… |
| 22-5078 |
Karen E. Ramm v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-fraud business-loan cover-up cover-up-efforts criminal-prosecution disbursal-of-funds funds-disbursal scheme-to-defraud statute-of-limitations |
Whether the execution of a bank fraud scheme is complete upon disbursal of funds or subsequent cover-up efforts constitute a separate execution that e… |
| 22-5079 |
Steven Martinez v. Christopher Gomez, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-4001(a) constitutional-rights detention-authority false-imprisonment habeas-corpus indefinite-detention prison-program-statement-5380.06 sentencing-review void-judgment void-judgment-and-commitment |
Did the court of appeals apply the wrong model form motion to vacate, set aside, or correct sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) |
| 22-5080 |
Jacky Cardale Mayfield v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
Denied |
IFP |
confidential-witness due-process Fourth-Amendment Fourth-Amendment-search In-camera-hearing ineffective-counsel Probable-cause search-warrant Shackling Witness-testimony |
Fourth-Amendment,Fourth-Amendment-search,Probable-cause,Witness-testimony,In-camera-hearing,Shackling,Eyewitness-identification,Ineffective-assistance… |
| 22-5082 |
Brian Gonzales v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions reasonable-doubt winship |
Does the failure to instruct juries in criminal trials that the prosecution must prove each element of the charged crime beyond a reasonable doubt vio… |
| 22-5083 |
William Wellington Hooper, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial fourth-amendment search-and-seizure sentencing |
Were Mr. Hooper's cell phones seized in violation of his Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure? |
| 22-5084 |
Luciano Felipe-Pascual v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5087 |
Dawud Canaan Sturrup Gabriel v. Melton Truck Lines |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review petition-for-redress tenth-circuit |
whether-the-us-court-of-appeals-for-the-tenth-circuit-departed-from-the-accepted-course-of-judicial-proceedings |
| 22-5088 |
Norman Blake McKenzie v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Whether the failure to require the jury, and the jury alone, to find that the aggravating factors outweighed the mitigating factors, beyond and to the… |
| 22-5090 |
Michelle C. Cantatore v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-history district-court-discretion evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255 sentencing sentencing-counsel sentencing-disparity |
Whether the Third Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability |
| 22-5091 |
Tyre Bradbury v. Indiana |
Indiana |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
all-or-nothing-strategy criminal-defense criminal-procedure defendant-consultation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-strategy lesser-included-offenses performance-deficiency strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-strategy |
Is the decision not to tender available lesser included offense instructions an 'important decision' under Strickland v. Washington? |
| 22-5093 |
Jerry Leon Haliburton v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof capital-punishment clear-and-convincing-evidence death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability state-law |
Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments permit States to impose on a capital defendant the burden of proving intellectual disability by clear and… |
| 22-5094 |
Garfield D. Campbell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence fourth-circuit marijuana-use reversible-error sentencing supervised-release |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by denying Mr. Campbell's meritorious argument that the district court committed reversible error by… |
| 22-5095 |
J. Christopher Wreh v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review standing |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in denying the petition for writ of certiorari |
| 22-5096 |
Theodore Luczak v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Dismissed |
IFP |
citizen-rights civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federalism judicial-system legal-procedure legislative-overreach separation-of-powers state-attorney state-attorney-general |
Whether a state's attorney can enact legislation that violates state and federal constitutional rights |
| 22-5097 |
Hidey Diaz, aka Silvio Manuel Amador, aka Celio Alvarez-Carrasco v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
10th-circuit circuit-court-review criminal-sentencing federal-prosecution government-action guideline-range sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-directive substantive-reasonableness unwarranted-disparity |
Did the Tenth Circuit err in concluding that it was barred from considering, on review for the substantive reasonableness of Mr. Diaz's sentence, the … |
| 22-5099 |
Erwin Whitter v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisal-statute burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process legal-rights public-defender right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the petitioner has a right to be granted extended time to secure counsel, the right to obtain the burden of proof, and the right to the Sixth … |
| 22-5100 |
Joshua Eric Townley v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
burks-v-united-states constitutional-claim criminal-procedure double-jeopardy federal-prosecution insufficient-evidence reinstatement-of-convictions state-prosecution supreme-court-precedent trial-court-reversal |
Whether there is a constitutional claim of double jeopardy, reinstatement of convictions after acquittal, when a federal or state trial court rescinds… |
| 22-5101 |
Sonya Owens v. Reliance Partners, LLC |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
IFP |
bill-of-rights constitution-amendment constitutional-amendment due-process federalism personal-rights property-rights separation-of-powers stay-at-home-orders supremacy-clause |
Does Congress or the President have authority to change or amend the Constitution without ratification of % of the States' Legislatures? |
| 22-5103 |
Chico Jermell Carraway v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-motion 28-usc-2255 evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining rule-11 rule-11-procedure sentencing sentencing-hearing |
Whether a defendant is entitled to an evidentiary hearing under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(b) to prove prejudice from an unkept promise of counsel concerning se… |
| 22-5104 |
Nakia Adams v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession indictment speedy-trial third-circuit |
Did the Third Circuit err by not dismissing Mr. Adams' indictment on speedy-trial-grounds and/or the Government's failure to prove that he is a felon-… |
| 22-5105 |
Tanner Lance King v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness within-guidelines-sentence |
How does a court of appeals determine whether a defendant has rebutted the presumption of reasonableness when the defendant is challenging on appeal t… |
| 22-5106 |
Kalvin Lamar Washington v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
IFP |
acquittal court-forms criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus indigent-petitioner jury-trial state-prosecution statutory-provisions |
Can the state of Michigan violate the protection against a second prosecution for the same offense after an acquittal by repeatedly the acquittal refe… |
| 22-5107 |
Marcus Dwayne Pemberton v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appeal-waivers brady-standard brady-v-united-states circuit-split criminal-procedure miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-agreements sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines |
Should standards other than the knowing and voluntary waiver standard of Brady v. United States govern the enforcement of appeal waivers in plea agree… |
| 22-5108 |
Zachery Keesee v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arkansas-statute arkansas-supreme-court capital-murder conviction due-process first-impression nonjurisdictional-argument separation-of-powers |
Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court violated due process |
| 22-5110 |
Onterio Dimitri Brown v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence jackson-v-virginia standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Supreme Court has overturned Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979), and if there is sufficient evidence to justify a conviction |
| 22-5112 |
Roberto Hernandez-Aldama v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-standard fifth-amendment judicial-interpretation methamphetamine sentencing |
Whether the court of appeals violated the defendant's Fifth Amendment right to due process |
| 22-5114 |
Jasmaine H. v. Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. |
Arizona |
Denied |
IFP |
child-welfare civil-rights clear-and-convincing-evidence due-process fair-trial family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights |
Did the Arizona Department of Child Safety violate Mother's Fourteenth Amendment right to Due Process and deprive her of her fundamental right to pare… |
| 22-5115 |
Michael Kennedy v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
consent constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-consent due-process fourteenth-amendment right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
Does the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require that before a trial counsel can concede a defendant's guilt, trial counsel must first consult with th… |
| 22-5116 |
Michael Dewayne Vickers v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca actual-reliance armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-standard johnson-v-united-states jurisdictional-requirement second-or-successive-motion sentencing sentencing-reliance |
Whether Mr. Vickers was required to prove 'actual reliance' by the sentencing judge on the ACCA's unconstitutional residual clause as a nonwaivable ju… |
| 22-5117 |
Wade Robertson v. Committee on Grievances for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-proceedings confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights cross-examination due-process professional-license professional-licensing quasi-criminal witness-testimony |
Does the Federal Constitution secure to the holder of a professional license, such as an attorney, the right to confront and cross-examine adverse wit… |
| 22-5118 |
Bejan David Etemad v. North Dakota |
North Dakota |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure due-process judicial-review rules-of-court standing state-courts |
Can North Dakota Supreme Court abrogate their own rules? |
| 22-5120 |
Glendrick Gardner v. Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process employment government-liability workers-compensation |
Whether the Gardner's workers' compensation claim was properly denied by LEUCG (Waste Management) |
| 22-5123 |
Kevin Brazelton v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment courtroom-decorum due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment sixth-amendment stun-belt |
Were the Petitioner's federal due process rights violated when the trial court denied a mistrial after the Petitioner was electrically shocked in fron… |
| 22-5124 |
Michael Jerrial Ibenyenwa v. Elroddrock B. Wells, Sr., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process frivolous frivolous-claims in-forma-pauperis pleadings prisoner-plaintiff qualified-immunity twombly |
Whether a defendant sufficiently and properly invokes a qualified immunity defense in a 42 U.S.C. 1983 civil rights action lawsuit through broad and g… |
| 22-5125 |
Mark A. Hill v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
IFP |
26(B)-application appellate-counsel conflict-of-interest due-process fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense plain-error post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process transcript |
Whether the 26(B) application for reopening proceeding was adequate and fundamentally fair |
| 22-5126 |
Davis Lamar Brooks v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof civil-commitment conditional-release due-process fifth-circuit haldol-injection involuntary-medication involuntary-treatment mental-health preponderance-of-evidence standard-of-review |
whether-the-fifth-circuit-erred-by-affirming-the-district-court's-denial-of-mr-brooks'-motion-for-unconditional-release |
| 22-5127 |
Edward Brown v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-conspirators double-jeopardy fifth-amendment political-beliefs political-views procedural-reasonableness resentencing sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines |
Did the district court violate the petitioner's rights under the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment? |
| 22-5128 |
My Loan Nguyen v. Michael Pallares, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment fundamental-rights miranda-rights ninth-circuit police-interrogation police-questioning |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violated petitioner's fundamental rights by ruling that the California Courts reasonably applied Miranda-v-… |
| 22-5129 |
V. V. v. E. V. |
Connecticut |
Denied |
IFP |
article-iii article-iii-standing contracts-clause due-process equal-protection full-faith-and-credit next-friend standing supremacy-clause |
Does the respondent have standing to assert claims as next friend of the child against the petitioner under Article III of the United States Constitut… |
| 22-5130 |
Timothy J. Mazique v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrears child-support civil-procedure due-process equal-protection incarceration judicial-review obligor-rights statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and Louisiana Supreme Court erred in finding the petitioner responsible for paying arrears… |
| 22-5131 |
Terry Gillard v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment witness-impeachment |
Whether the California court's refusal to allow a witness to be impeached with his federal bank robbery conviction violated petitioner's clearly estab… |
| 22-5132 |
Joe Octavio Granado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences district-court incarceration liberty-deprivation liberty-interest revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether the District Court, in revoking supervised release, excessively sentenced Petitioner with consecutive incarceration from an original concurren… |
| 22-5133 |
Rian G. Waters v. Facebook, Inc., et al. |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-court issue-preclusion obstruction procedural-fairness standing witness-protection |
Whether plaintiffs and witnesses have a right to receive protection from obstructive crimes while a case is proceeding in federal courts of justice? |
| 22-5134 |
Bart J. Tarulli v. Ameriprise Financial Services |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-standard judicial-discretion legal-violations merit-based-decision preponderance-of-evidence procedural-fairness self-representation standing |
Does the court believe that 'cheating' and violating established law/rules must be addressed with an imposition of the clear penalties so listed? |
| 22-5135 |
Joshua Jay Schroeder v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure federal-rules plea-agreement right-to-appeal sentencing |
Does a defendant retain the right to appeal a sentence if, after imposition of the sentence, the district court advises the defendant of the right to … |
| 22-5137 |
Clifford Raymond Salas v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process factual-errors plain-error prosecutorial-argument sentencing sentencing-variance tenth-circuit-review |
Did the Tenth Circuit wrongly hold that the district court did not plainly err, where (a) the prosecutor argued that a factually untrue reason support… |
| 22-5138 |
Arthur Frank Cardenas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process firearm-possession habeas-corpus knowledge-element ninth-circuit rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states right-to-counsel sentencing |
Whether a certificate of appealability should be granted due to the District Court and Ninth Circuit's error in not granting it |
| 22-5140 |
Nolberto Lemus v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-rights criminal-appeal due-process eleventh-circuit federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standing strickland-standard |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals properly applied the Correct Standard when it denied the petitioner's Certificate of Appealability and D… |
| 22-5142 |
David Adeyi v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-delay civil-rights covid-19-disruption disability-compensation due-process federal-circuit judicial-review pandemic-disruption service-connected-injury veterans-affairs veterans-benefits |
Should veteran be allowed to move his case forward, after he filed late with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, due to the Covid-19 pa… |
| 22-5143 |
Malia Arciero v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion appellate-discretion compassionate-release criminal-justice federal-statute judicial-review motion-reconsideration reconsideration sentencing sentencing-modification |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit abused its discretion in denying Arciero's Motion for Compassionate Release Under 18 … |
| 22-5144 |
Khaled Shabani v. Tony Evers, Governor of Wisconsin, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the petitioner has the right to prosecute a civil rights claim against federal officials for violating the petitioner's constitutional rights |
| 22-5145 |
Michael Kim v. Twelfth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-removal due-process eleventh-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-jurisdiction litigation-costs removal standing supreme-court-precedent |
Should this Court overrule Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. v. Jackson, 189 S. Ct. 1743 (2019), affirmed on 54 (1 dissent), or hold that a defendant in a civil… |
| 22-5146 |
Dawud Canaan Sturrup Gabriel v. Melton Truck Lines |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings standing tenth-circuit-review |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit departed from the accepted judicial proceedings |
| 22-5147 |
Ortavious Devon Wilson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure jury-trial mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing prison-releasee-reoffender sixth-amendment |
Whether the Petitioner's sentence violated his Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial |
| 22-5148 |
Johnson Christopher Jamerson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law administrative-remedies civil-rights constitutional-rights corrections-department due-process equal-protection legal-claims separation-of-powers standing |
Whether the Florida Department of Corrections is allowed to choose not to enforce the law as the Department sees fit, in violation of the Separation o… |
| 22-5149 |
Rajesh Ramcharan v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process immigration immigration-fraud marriage-fraud racial-prejudice rosales-loper voir-dire |
Was the judge required to conduct the requested voir dire on racial prejudice under the 'reasonable possibility' standard set forth in Rosales-Loper v… |
| 22-5151 |
James Tyrell Drane v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment retroactive-law statute-of-limitations |
Whether the State of Michigan's interpretation of its statute of limitations to revive an expired offense violated the petitioner's 14th Amendment due… |
| 22-5153 |
Ramon A. Boyce v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-authentication prejudice pro-se-defendant self-representation trial-court trial-court-discretion |
Has a criminal Defendant's constitutional right to self-representation been violated by a trial court, if that court unreasonably delays the Defendant… |
| 22-5154 |
Myron Baker v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-record criminal-procedure district-court evidence evidence-admission federal-prosecution record-of-court search-and-seizure search-warrant state-search-warrant structural-error |
Whether the federal prosecution's reliance on a state search warrant without making it part of the formal record of the United States District Court c… |
| 22-5155 |
In Re Donald Williams |
|
Denied |
IFP |
cage-v-louisiana cause-and-prejudice constitutional-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan out-of-time-appeal writ-of-appeal |
Whether the facts of Cockerham and Petitioner Williams are exactly the same for purpose of out of time appeal and application of Cage to their convict… |
| 22-5156 |
Wilbert McKreith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release criminal-justice-reform criminal-sentencing district-court-authority first-step-act judicial-authority sentencing sentencing-commission statutory-interpretation |
Do district courts have authority to grant compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(1)(A) |
| 22-5157 |
William Paul Burch v. Bank of America, N.A. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-dismissal civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-hearing jurisdiction removal removal-procedure sanctions unconstitutional-rulings |
Should removal from a state court to a federal court be allowed without a hearing to determine if the case is a state or federal issue? |
| 22-5158 |
Bernard J. Battle v. United States |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance legal-nullity plea-bargaining procedural-default sentencing state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether a guilty plea obtained in direct contravention of the express provisions of an applicable statute renders the sentence illegal, and consequent… |
| 22-5160 |
Robert V. Wonsch v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-supremacy sixth-amendment speedy-trial state-constitutional-law |
May-any-State-or-Territory-create-enact-or-enforce-any-penal-statute-or-constitutional-provision-in-CONTUMACY-of-the-Sixth-Amendment-right-to-a-Speedy… |
| 22-5161 |
Antonio M. Taylor v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 criminal-procedure district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances retroactivity sentence-reduction sentencing-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider nonretroactive changes in sentencing law in determining whether a defendant has shown 'extraordinary and compell… |
| 22-5163 |
Diann Ramcharan v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection immigration immigration-fraud jury-selection race-discrimination racial-bias voir-dire |
Is it an abuse of discretion for a district court, when there is a proper request by the accused, to refuse to conduct reasonable voir dire inquiry in… |
| 22-5164 |
Oscar Lenton, Sr. v. Warden, FCI Edgefield |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation confrontation-clause due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence fair-trial government-misconduct habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Whether the Appeals Court ruling deprived petitioner of his right under Brady v. Maryland, where the Government had violated its obligation to turn ov… |
| 22-5165 |
Daniel Boos v. Jermaine White, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cumulative-error cumulative-prejudice due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment trial-counsel trial-errors |
Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated due to multiple errors by trial counsel, which cumulati… |
| 22-5166 |
In Re DeVinche Javon AlBritton |
|
Denied |
IFP |
appeals constitutional-law due-process federal-appeals federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review mandamus procedural-standard standing |
Should the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit be required to articulate the court's grounds for granting or denying authorization t… |
| 22-5167 |
Regis Storm Ervin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583g constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment mandatory-revocation sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-v-haymond |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 22-5168 |
Rodney Mesquias v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-error jurisdiction legal-standard sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming Mesquias' convictions and sentences |
| 22-5169 |
Antoine Deshawn Barnes v. T.V. Nationwide Network, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-statute due-process free-speech legal-challenge mens-rea standing state-court statutory-construction takings |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 22-5170 |
Cristian Serrano-Delgado v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 aiding-and-abetting conspiracy crime-of-violence davis-v-united-states hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery jury-instructions pinkerton-doctrine pinkerton-liability section-924c |
Can a valid Section 924(c) conviction be based on jury findings that may have been based on Hobbs Act conspiracy, Pinkerton Hobbs Act conspiracy, and … |
| 22-5171 |
Rebekah Werth v. Stuart Police Department, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-justice civil-rights court-procedure due-process equal-access in-forma-pauperis indigent-plaintiff legal-standards pro-se standing sua-sponte-dismissal |
Do the sua sponte dismissals by the lower courts under the in forma pauperis statute 28 U.S.C. § 1915 (e) (2) (B), in which the reviewing court merely… |
| 22-5172 |
Glen Torres v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-counsel constitutional-right counsel-of-choice disqualification indigent-defendant right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-representation |
Does the Sixth Amendment right to choose one's attorney apply to private and pro bono co-counsel? |
| 22-5173 |
Derrick Lamar Cheeks v. Alford Joyner |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa brecht certificate-of-appealability collateral-review federal-habeas habeas-corpus prejudice-determination rule-60(b) state-court-prejudice |
Has the Fourth Circuit Court of appeals effectively side stepped the COA inquiry, without expressly saying so, where the court has declined to analyze… |
| 22-5174 |
Lester Waters, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process exclusionary-rule miranda-rights self-incrimination substance-influence voluntary-waiver |
Whether Lester Waters, Jr. could waive his rights 'knowingly and intelligently' while under the influence of alcohol |
| 22-5175 |
A. W. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources |
West Virginia |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-power adoption-proceedings child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-integrity family-preservation federal-adoption-act guardian-ad-litem perjury |
Whether the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals abided by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Sixth Amendment to the United States Co… |
| 22-5176 |
John Thomas Vine, II v. Martin Frink, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions |
| 22-5177 |
William Eugene Moon v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus right-to-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial statute-of-limitations trial-delay |
Was the Defendant denied a speedy trial? |
| 22-5178 |
Daniel K. Cleary v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause |
| 22-5179 |
Jon Christopher Stoune v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance patent section-2255 standing takings |
Should the Court grant a Certificate of Appealability |
| 22-5180 |
General Akecheta Morningstar v. Kroger Company |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act discovery employer-retaliation employment-discrimination legal-standing publication retaliation standing title-vii |
Does section 704 (a) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 cover retaliation by employers against employees? |
| 22-5181 |
Edward Avila v. California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection standing |
Whether the Petitioner's due process rights were violated when the Respondent did not provide the Petitioner a voice as guaranteed by the United State… |
| 22-5182 |
Bakhtiyor Jumaev v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
balancing-test barker-test barker-v-wingo constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence original-public-understanding sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
Whether the judge-made and ahistorical balancing test for assessing a deprivation of the Sixth Amendment's right to a speedy trial set out in Barker v… |
| 22-5183 |
Douglas Emmanuel Carey, III v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constructive-possession drug-distribution drug-quantity evidence-reliability expert-testimony opinion-witness sentencing-determination voice-identification wiretap-evidence wiretap-necessity |
Whether the district court improperly allowed the admission of lay witness testimony identifying the defendant's voice, and whether the appellate cour… |
| 22-5185 |
Thomas Creighton Shrader v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 18-usc-3742 double-jeopardy federal-bureau-of-prisons fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
When the Federal Bureau of Prisons is misapplying 18 U.S.C. 3583(a) [Supervised Release] not only to Petitioner, but to thousands (1000's) of Federal … |
| 22-5186 |
Brandon Richardson v. Brandon Belote, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fisa standing surveillance |
Whether the Unconstitutional Surveillance Practices of the FBI and DOJ violated the Fourth Amendment rights of the petitioners by using FISA warrants … |
| 22-5187 |
Jesus Maya-Zapata v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky credibility-determination judicial-procedure jury-selection peremptory-challenge peremptory-excusal-of-a-juror reasonableness-of-stated-justifications sixth-amendment |
Whether there is a single deferential standard of appellate review for Sixth-Amendment-claims-arising-under-Batson-v-Kentucky or whether appellate cou… |
| 22-5188 |
Jamshid Muhtorov v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
barker-test barker-v-wingo constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence judicial-balancing sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
Whether the judge-made and ahistorical balancing test for assessing a deprivation of the Sixth Amendment's right to a speedy trial set out in Barker v… |
| 22-5189 |
Haider Salah Abdulrazzak v. Brent Fluke, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-civil-procedure federal-habeas-proceedings habeas-corpus judicial-bias judicial-discretion procedural-default rule-60b-motion |
whether-the-district-court-abused-its-discretion-in-denying-rule-60(b)-motion |
| 22-5190 |
Rafael Cortez-Oropeza v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
admissibility-of-evidence atf bureau-of-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms criminal-procedure evidence expert-testimony firearms interstate-commerce judicial-discretion legal-standard |
Whether the district court erred in allowing an unqualified ATF agent to testify as an expert on interstate commerce |
| 22-5191 |
Anis Blemur v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion certificate-of-appealability controlling-precedent district-court eleventh-circuit guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion remand |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion in hold… |
| 22-5192 |
Jose Manuel Hernandez-Miranda v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release court-review covid-19 criminal-justice due-process eighth-amendment extraordinary-reasons judicial-discretion petitioner-rights sentencing sentencing-relief |
Whether the Petitioner should receive compassionate release based on the stated extraordinary and compelling reasons |
| 22-5193 |
Shaidon Blake v. Maryland |
Maryland |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review brady-violation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation legal-standard |
Did the courts err in their interpretation and application of Strickland v. Washington in petitioner's case, failing to find ineffective assistance of… |
| 22-5194 |
Maxo Jean v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 appeals appellate-procedure criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction motion-to-vacate timeliness timely-filing |
Whether the appeals court abused its discretion by dismissing petitioner's notice of appeal from the denial of a motion to vacate, filed pursuant to 2… |
| 22-5195 |
C. Raymond Jones, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence aedpa-limitations brady-violation brady-violations due-process herrera herrera-claim house-v-bell ineffective-assistance newly-discovered-evidence schulp |
Federal & State Court Split on Newly Reliable Evidence |
| 22-5196 |
Malik Holloway v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process federal-courthouse federal-courts mens-rea statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness weapon-possession |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §930(e)(1) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 22-5197 |
Leonard Noble v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions |
| 22-5198 |
Akeem Markiese Rogers v. Virginia |
Virginia |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process evidence evidence-standard jurisdiction legal-standard possession procedural-review search-and-seizure writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5199 |
Israel Manuel Rios v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process evidence-rule-403 extraneous-offense extraneous-offenses fair-trial prejudicial-effect probative-value rule-403 sexual-misconduct |
Whether the purpose of Rule 403 is to exclude relevant but substantially prejudicial evidence that outweighs the probative value of extraneous sexual … |
| 22-5200 |
Robert Oulton, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights constitutional-showing due-process eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus indigent-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-standard |
Can a specific record reference by an indigent be considered a substantive part of demonstrating a substantial showing of the denial of a constitution… |
| 22-5201 |
Jurel Dion Roberson v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus liberty-interest ninth-circuit state-courts state-created-liberty-interest |
Whether the state courts erred in denying Petitioner's state-created liberty interest, and whether it was error to deny the Certificate of Appealabili… |
| 22-5202 |
In Re Tavon Dameon Davis |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct mandamus prosecutorial-misconduct witness-tampering |
Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the court of appeals (Fourth Circuit) to remand this case to the district court without delay to hol… |
| 22-5203 |
Travis Wade Amaral v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-prohibition due-process juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-sentences miller-v-alabama sentencing-discretion term-of-years-sentences |
Does the constitutional prohibition against mandatory life sentences for juvenile offenders in Miller v. Alabama apply to mandatory term-of-years sent… |
| 22-5204 |
Ramon Belducea-Mancinas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-conflict controlled-substance drug-trafficking federal-drug-conviction fifth-circuit plain-error sentencing-guidelines |
Is it obvious error to find a prior federal drug trafficking conviction is a 'controlled substance offense' under the Sentencing Guidelines when the s… |
| 22-5205 |
Layla Coriz v. New Mexico |
New Mexico |
Denied |
IFP |
cell-phone-data due-process fourth-amendment privacy search-and-seizure standing |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable … |
| 22-5207 |
Brandon L. Cooper v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-maryland due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
Whether the lower court's decision was based on an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law |
| 22-5208 |
In Re Paul C. Bolin |
|
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment administrative-rules civil-rights constitutional-authority court-filing due-process free-speech judicial-procedure legal-submissions ninth-circuit standing takings |
Does the SCOTUS petition raise a constitutional right to carry concealed firearms? |
| 22-5209 |
Adam Paul Blomdahl v. Doctor Jaffe, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights disclosure due-process judicial-discretion ninth-circuit standing summary-judgment |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred when it issued its Mandate without addressing the Appellants' claim of County Appellees' withholding of disclosure … |
| 22-5210 |
Travis Louis Shaw v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance jury-trial reasonable-doubt strickland-v-washington us-constitution |
Whether Petitioner should be granted a Certificate of Appealability |
| 22-5211 |
Ian LaMonte Cormier v. Lynn E. Williams, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process false-accusations false-claims malicious-prosecution prisoner-complaint retaliation sixth-circuit standing |
Whether the district court in San Diego, California, was justified in denying the in forma pauperis status to the plaintiff-appellant |
| 22-5212 |
Jonita Desirrae Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review booker-standard criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error plain-unreasonableness reasonableness sentencing supervised-release |
Whether appellate review of a sentence imposed after the revocation of a defendant's supervised-release term is for reasonableness or merely to see if… |
| 22-5213 |
Clifford Lavern Stokes v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment attenuation-doctrine civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment intervening-circumstance reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-standard search-and-seizure traffic-stop warrant-check |
Whether a warrant check of a passenger that extends a valid traffic stop is a per se 'fishing expedition' under the attenuation doctrine |
| 22-5214 |
Martin Rios-Galicia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-analysis criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent-overturning recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States |
| 22-5215 |
Graham Schiff v. Maryland |
Maryland |
Denied |
IFP |
as-applied constitutional-rights content-based content-based-speech first-amendment free-speech public-concern right-to-counsel |
Whether the petitioner's speech, which is content-based, on a matter of public-concern, and made while exercising one's right to counsel, is protected… |
| 22-5217 |
Ramell Markus v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-sentencing extreme-physical-pain kidnapping objective-standard sentencing-guidelines serious-bodily-injury subjective-vs-objective |
Is a determination of 'serious bodily injury' based on 'extreme physical pain' a subjective test based on the victim's level of pain tolerance or an o… |
| 22-5219 |
Kim Lee Millbrook v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment ineffective-assistance newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct standing takings |
Whether the petitioner has a valid claim under the First Amendment, due-process, standing, civil-rights, civil-procedure, takings |
| 22-5221 |
Jim Scott Lundi v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arbitrary-denial civil-procedure civil-rights due-process pro-se standing |
Whether appellate courts unconstitutionally enacted 28-usc-2101 and the conflicted arbitrary denial and conclusion of law violated petitioner's pro-se… |
| 22-5222 |
Travis Lee Combs v. Washington |
Washington |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process individual-rights judicial-review legal-standard patent standing takings |
Unsure |
| 22-5223 |
David Kavandi v. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 22-5224 |
In Re Alfred Lane-Bey |
|
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus human-rights jurisdictional-challenge moorish-american native-american-rights sovereign-citizen sovereign-immunity standing |
Whether this Court should use its power to grant a writ of habeas corpus to a Moorish American sovereign man who was convicted without subject matter … |
| 22-5226 |
Oyeyemi Olatunji Owagboriaye, aka Prince v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1343 accomplice-liability circuit-split criminal-law federal-criminal-law procedural-history scheme-to-defraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
Whether a wire transfer merely distributing funds amongst alleged accomplices is 'for the purpose of executing' a fraudulent scheme, as contemplated b… |
| 22-5227 |
In Re Eric Krieg |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights national-security separation-of-powers standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims challenging the constitutionality of the government's surveillance program |
| 22-5228 |
William Paul Burch v. America's Servicing Company |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
article-iii-court civil-procedure federal-issue federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements removal removal-procedure service-of-process state-court state-court-removal state-issue |
Should removal from a state court to a federal court by a defendant only be allowed after the state court judge conducts a hearing to determine if the… |
| 22-5231 |
Daniel J. Zulawski v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process federal-evidence-rule fourth-amendment-search overbreadth sexual-activity sixth-circuit-analysis statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Is 18 U.S.C. 2422(b) unconstitutionally vague-and-overbroad |
| 22-5232 |
Jesus Javier Cruz-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-presumption reasonableness-standard rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may rebut an appellate … |
| 22-5234 |
Victor Manuel Duarte-Munoz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5237 |
Heather Marie Newhouse v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law controlled-substance-offense criminal-law guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate offenses to the definition of 'controlled substance offense'… |
| 22-5239 |
Edward Bishop v. Jonathan R. Hemingway, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute double-jeopardy due-process federal-criminal-law fifth-amendment legal-interpretation offense-definition sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether § 924(c) criminalizes two separate offenses to determine if the Petitioner was convicted of an offense § 924(c) does not criminalize? |
| 22-5241 |
Silvino Vasquez-Jacinto v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5242 |
Tavaras Etone Warren v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) aiding-and-abetting crime-of-violence criminal-indictment due-process firearm-possession ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-exclusion statutory-interpretation |
Is such other offense categorically excluded from being treated as a crime of violence? |
| 22-5243 |
Grover D. Cannon v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actus-reus constitutional-law criminal-procedure defense-counsel mccoy-v-louisiana mens-rea right-to-autonomy self-defense sixth-amendment |
Did Louisiana's courts violate Grover D. Cannon's Sixth Amendment rights recognized in McCoy by allowing Mr. Cannon's defense counsel over Mr. Cannon'… |
| 22-5244 |
Charles M. Torrence v. Hazel Peterson, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-right criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process legal-representation mental-competency right-to-counsel sixth-amendment statewide-importance |
Whether a mental competency hearing is a critical stage of a criminal prosecution requiring representation by counsel under the Sixth Amendment |
| 22-5247 |
Luckens Petit v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bond-hearing confrontation-clause constitutional-rights crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence florida-arthur-bond-hearing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Florida Arthur/Bond hearing satisfies the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause requirement as explained in Crawford v. Washington |
| 22-5250 |
Ella W. Horn v. Experis US Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-site-location-information fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-privacy fourth-amendment-reasonableness fourth-amendment-standing warrantless-search |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's historical cell-site location information violates the Fourth Amendment's prohib… |
| 22-5251 |
Levonne Jomarrio Greer v. Kristopher Taskila, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review law-enforcement plea-bargaining sham-plea-bargaining sham-tactics |
Did the district court and appeals court erroneously deny a certificate of appealability? |
| 22-5252 |
Carlos Fleitas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-procedure non-expert-testimony sentence-enhancement sentencing-enhancement writ-of-certiorari |
Should a higher standard, apart from that permitted by Fed. R. Evid. 1101(d)(3), apply when a defendant's sentence is enhanced based on non-expert tes… |
| 22-5253 |
Dennis Charles Helmer v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release covid-19 criminal-justice-reform first-step-act medical-care sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the District Court erred in denying relief to Petitioner's 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(1)(A)(i) motion based on the applicability of 18 U.S.C. 3553(a)(2… |
| 22-5255 |
Selwin Martin v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus procedural-timeliness statute-of-limitations third-circuit writ-petition |
Whether the District Court and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the Petitioner's Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus as untimel… |
| 22-5256 |
In Re Daniel Patrick Sheehan |
|
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel post-conviction-relief structural-error |
Will the Honorable Supreme Court let this complete miscarriage of Justice Continue? |
| 22-5259 |
Elseddig Elmarioud Musa v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel supreme-court-precedent |
Where a Court of Appeals denies a Petition for Issuance of a Certificate of Appealability (COA) in distegard of the rule announced in Buck v Davis" |
| 22-5260 |
David Perez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-murder federal-sentencing racketeering-activity rico rico-sentencing sentencing state-law state-law-maximum statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
Whether a sentencing court is bound by the state statutory maximum exposure for RICO violations based on state racketeering activities |
| 22-5261 |
Yusuf O. Bush v. David J. Ebbert |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment federal-courts habeas-corpus standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the AEDPA of 1996 violates the Constitution of the United States as to the 1st Amendment and 5th Amendment |
| 22-5262 |
David D. Major v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion acceptance-of-responsibility appeal-denial career-offender criminal-history drug-related-offense obstruction-of-justice reliable-evidence sentencing-guidelines |
Question not identified |
| 22-5264 |
Cody Gober v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentence constitutional-scrutiny criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-sentence post-conviction-relief sentencing sixth-circuit state-sentence |
Whether the due process rights of the Petitioner were violated |
| 22-5265 |
Preston Hester, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines advisory-range criminal-procedure district-court due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines SORNA SORNA-tier tier-level |
Whether the district court's failure to determine Mr. Hester's correct SORNA tier level in calculating the correct advisory Guideline sentencing range… |
| 22-5266 |
Elizabeth Downing, as Administrator of the Estate of Linda Berry v. Paul Grossman, et al. |
Iowa |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process fraudulent-concealment informed-consent kidney-tumor medical-malpractice medical-negligence patient-rights statute-of-limitations statute-of-repose |
Whether the care received by the plaintiff constitutes fraudulent concealment |
| 22-5268 |
Anthony Peters v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts habeas-corpus limitations-defense petition-dismissal procedural-timeliness state-court-review state-courts timeliness |
Whether a federal court lacks authority, on its own initiative, to dismiss a habeas petition as untimely, once the State's highest court has answered … |
| 22-5269 |
Juan M. Cuellar v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus lesser-offense newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction sentencing |
Whether an actual innocence claim applies to a lesser offense? |
| 22-5270 |
Joaquin Mendez-Hernandez v. Catricia Howard |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-split federal-procedure habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief savings-clause statutory-interpretation |
What is the scope of the 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) savings clause for habeas corpus relief? |
| 22-5271 |
Jose Erbo, aka Tito, aka Pinguita, aka Miguel Garcia v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment autopsy-reports confrontation-clause due-process legal-conflict supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-precedents testimonial testimonial-evidence |
Whether Autopsy Reports Are Testimonial For Purposes Of The Confrontation Clause, And Whether The Unreasonable Application Of Clearly Established Supr… |
| 22-5274 |
Joseph Covell Brown v. Marcus Porter, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process higher-education ministerial-tasks procedural-due-process qualified-immunity |
Whether the right to procedural due process in disciplinary proceedings involving suspension, expulsion or loss of housing in publicly funded institut… |
| 22-5279 |
Abdulhakim Muhammad v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights congressmen-letter due-process federal-jurisdiction foreign-terrorist-organization habeas-corpus national-defense-authorization-act new-evidence standing statute-of-limitations |
Whether the petitioner's claims are exempt from the time bar of 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)'s one-year statute of limitation, even though the evidence is e… |
| 22-5280 |
Raj K. Patel v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-1491(a) big-tucker-act contract-breach discretionary-power due-process due-process-cl-prejudice federal-claims-court judicial-review u.s.-const.-amend.-v united-states-v.-mitchell united-states-v.-navajo-nation |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit abused its discretion or erroneously reasoned and concluded that the claim of breach of United St… |
| 22-5282 |
Cory Mingo v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 6th-amendment cell-site-location-information criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance probable-cause search-and-seizure sixth-amendment warrantless-search |
Whether the Petitioner was deprived of the effective counsel |
| 22-5285 |
Alifonso Eduardo Garcia v. Kansas |
Kansas |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
autopsy-evidence criminal-procedure due-process jury-questionnaire jury-selection lesser-included-offense presumed-prejudice skilling-factors standard-of-review venue venue-prejudice |
Whether the Kansas Supreme Court erred in finding no presumed prejudice in the venue of Rooks County |
| 22-5288 |
Kendale Welborn v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-decision alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-sentencing drug-offenses methamphetamine-actual methamphetamine-mixture plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether the use of Methamphetamine Actual to determine the Guideline Offense Level and potential sentence, when the Defendant was charged with and ple… |
| 22-5292 |
Isiah Trujillo v. Hector Balderas, Attorney General of New Mexico, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts constitutional-cause due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-bias judicial-review remedies state-courts statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Supreme Court can provide guidelines regarding the material term 'state courts' embedded in the provisions of 28 U.S.C. § 2254 and the Rul… |
| 22-5293 |
Rafael Humberto Celaya Valenzuela v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255-motion supervisory-powers |
Did the Court of Appeals for the first Circuit err when it denied request for certificate of appealability where petitioner sought review of the Distr… |
| 22-5296 |
Ryan T. Carleton v. Maine |
Maine |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure agency-documents civil-rights disclosure-requirements due-process federal-law ineffective-assistance-of-counsel internal-communications prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel right-to-fair-trial staff-communications |
Does Carleton's public defender have a history of incompetence or misconduct? |
| 22-5298 |
Seth Anthony Johnson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-privacy fourth-amendment homeland-security homeland-security-search privacy-interest probation-condition probation-officer search-condition supervised-release warrantless-search |
Whether the Ninth Circuit improperly ruled that Mr. Johnson's supervised release search condition substantially diminished his weighty privacy interes… |
| 22-53 |
Aaron G. Filler, et al. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
assignment-of-claims assignment-of-claims-act civil-procedure fifth-amendment government-taking just-compensation patent patent-infringement patent-rights takings |
Can the Assignment of Claims Act remove the Fifth Amendment right to Just Compensation from the party with the right to exclude in a patent infringeme… |
| 22-5303 |
George Daniel McGavitt v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing minor-sexual-conduct minors sentencing-guidelines sexual-offense-definition sexual-offenses statutory-interpretation |
Whether self-penetration by a minor (not prepubescent) using a benign household item is 'sadistic or masochistic' under USSG § 2G2.1(b)(4)(A) |
| 22-5304 |
Nuelito Morel-Vargas v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment waiver waiver-doctrine |
Whether the Constitution requires a canvass on the right to testify |
| 22-5305 |
Aileen Kogera Njoroge v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fraud identity-theft legal-appeal probation restitution sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence trial-court-discretion |
Whether the district court erred in denying Kogera's motion for judgment of acquittal on the basis of insufficient evidence to support the jury's verd… |
| 22-5308 |
Lashawn Lewis v. New York |
New York |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure daubert daubert-standard due-process expert-testimony frye-standard scientific-evidence |
Was Petitioner deprived of Due Process where the court denied her any meaningful opportunity to contest the use of junk science at her trial? |
| 22-5309 |
Saddam Daoud Samaan v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-misconduct civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus immunity ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief |
Did the lower courts err by suppressing evidence after a state court ruling? |
| 22-5313 |
Jesse Rondale Bailey v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a)(6) career-offender criminal-procedure empirical-evidence evidence-based judicial-discretion presumption sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines unwarranted-disparity within-range-sentences |
Whether a court may categorically refuse to consider empirical evidence showing that other judges impose sentences below the guideline range in the va… |
| 22-5314 |
Daniel Ray v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion legal-reasoning rita-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines |
Whether sentencing judges must explain why they have rejected a nonfrivolous argument made by a defendant in favor of a lower sentence |
| 22-5316 |
Antwan Criswell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3161 18-usc-3262 court-congestion dismissal-with-prejudice due-process judicial-delay speedy-trial speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether the presumption of prejudice in a Speedy Trial Violation under 18 U.S.C. §3262 requires dismissal with prejudice, despite the court's claim of… |
| 22-5318 |
Samuel Francis White Horse v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process evidence jury-instructions obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation |
Does a conviction for Tampering with Evidence require a jury to find that the defendant's conduct would interfere with the due administration of justi… |
| 22-5321 |
William S. Divine v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-challenge covid-19 covid-19-restrictions due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus procedural-deadline section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
Whether the court's application of 28 U.S.C. §2255(f)(1) with complete zeal, while failing to apply 28 U.S.C. §2255(f)(2) with equal zealousness, viol… |
| 22-5326 |
Juan Samuel Rodriguez-Huitron v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
clear-error criminal-procedure judicial-review limited-remand plain-error remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum substantial-rights |
Whether a limited remand to assess the impact of a plain error on a defendant's substantial rights extends to miscalculations of the statutory maximum |
| 22-5327 |
Lavone Ganithus Dixon, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-procedure court-record due-process evidence-admission federal-prosecution record-of-court search-warrant structural-error |
Whether the federal prosecution's reliance on an unfiled state search warrant constitutes structural error |
| 22-5335 |
Julius Wayne Baker v. Bryan K. Dobbs, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-investigation federal-jurisdiction free-speech incarceration legal-jurisdiction miranda-rights standing |
Did the 4th Circuit err in denying the petitioner's grounds for relief when the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by agents of the Fede… |
| 22-5337 |
Carlos Vazquez-Tellez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-5338 |
Chikosi Legins v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1001 apprendi apprendi-rule criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence false-statement relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum sufficiency |
Whether the evidence was sufficient to support the conviction under 18 U.S.C. 1001 |
| 22-5340 |
Jonathan Wells v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech internet-access packingham-v-north-carolina sex-offenders supervised-release |
Whether the same First Amendment principles in Packingham apply to sex offenders on supervised release and prohibit untailored bans on internet use du… |
| 22-5342 |
Patrick LaJuan Jones, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing preemption sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation |
Does a state definition of 'controlled substance' control a federal sentencing enhancement under the Sentencing Guidelines, when the state lists subst… |
| 22-5343 |
In Re Quelyory A. Rigal |
|
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process duplicitous-indictment fifth-amendment habeas-corpus jury non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment |
Whether a non-unanimous verdict in a criminal case violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments |
| 22-5344 |
In Re Eric McCray |
|
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-law executive-authority separation-of-powers take-care-clause |
Whether the federal government's actions violated the Appointments Clause and the Take Care Clause of the U.S. Constitution |
| 22-5348 |
Clarence Lee v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal motion-hearing prosecutorial-agreement recusal sentencing sentencing-discretion standing |
Whether the district court erred by denying defense counsel's oral motion for recusal of the district judge |
| 22-5351 |
Gary Lee Johnson v. Minnesota |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-court federalism legal-standing sovereign-immunity standing state-procedure takings |
When is State Sovereignty allowed to override a U.S. citizen's unalienable rights? |
| 22-5359 |
Kareem M. Murray v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike prosecutorial-discrimination supreme-court-precedent unreasonable-determination-of-facts |
Whether a state trial court's granting of a prosecutor's challenge to a defendant's use of a peremptory strike |
| 22-5370 |
In Re Rodney Allen Bey |
|
Denied |
IFP |
13th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights denationalization due-process property racial-classification slave-status slavery |
What branch of law authorized states to apply abolished slave labels (negro, black, colored) to any person of African descent after 1865? |
| 22-5377 |
Malik Breyon Hollis v. Matthew Magnusson, Warden |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-composition jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination |
Whether peremptory challenges of racial minorities during jury selection in criminal trials should be subjected to a heightened judicial inquiry of st… |
| 22-5380 |
Wallace A. Gardner v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Arkansas |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing takings |
Question not identified |
| 22-5386 |
Pamela Bond v. McKean County, Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process judicial-interpretation pennsylvania-law property property-tax real-estate real-estate-law tax-assessment tax-delinquency taxation vehicle-transfer |
Whether the 2005 Dodge Caravan was properly registered and inspected, whether Pennsylvania rebate laws apply to the property taxes on 316 Dawson Stree… |
| 22-5402 |
Ronnie Jones v. Deanna Brookhart, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction procedural-error sentencing standing |
Whether the Court's imposition of a sentence or judgment lacks constitutional safeguards |
| 22-5403 |
Paul Frederick Stover v. Oregon Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense second-degree-assault sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Could reasonable jurists debate whether trial counsel's failure to request a lesser-included offense instruction as an alternative to second degree as… |
| 22-5406 |
Daniel Edward Gonzalez v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-statute drug-possession due-process felony-enhancement firearm-possession firearms second-amendment |
Whether California Health and Safety Code section 11370.1 violates the Second Amendment by making possessing certain drugs while armed a felony |
| 22-5411 |
Darnay Thibodaux v. Jon Reeves, District Administrator, Jefferson Parish District, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, Department of Probation and Parole, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-provisions |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit properly denied Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability |
| 22-5413 |
Roderick Taylor v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-conviction due-process federal-treaties ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-bar strickland-v-washington |
Whether Miss. Code Ann. 99-39-21 was unreasonably used to bar petitioner's fundamental issues of severe importance revolving around federal treaties |
| 22-5414 |
Leroy Lamont Wells v. Colette S. Peters, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
answer civil-procedure complaint default-judgment due-process objection |
Whether a district court can enter a default judgment against a defendant who fails to file an answer to a complaint, when the defendant has objected … |
| 22-5428 |
Norman Lafonte Pryor, aka Nc LaFonse Pryor v. Ronald Erdos, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel |
Whether the petitioner was denied effective assistance of counsel due to counsel's failure to adequately communicate with the petitioner and pursue a … |
| 22-5439 |
In Re Tyvon Montrey Spencer El-Bey |
|
Denied |
IFP |
brown-vs-board civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge political-sovereignty racial-discrimination standing |
Whether the petitioner, a self-proclaimed 'Moorish American Sovereign,' is unlawfully detained and denied due process and equal protection under the C… |
| 22-5453 |
Hugo F. Marquez v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interview-tapes right-to-confrontation sex-abuse-case sex-crimes trial-procedure |
Should the Ninth Circuit have denied Marquez's motion for a certificate of appealability on the issue of ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 22-5465 |
LaRoyce McFadden v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-protections due-process interrogation-rights involuntary-confession juvenile-justice juvenile-suspect police-interrogation police-procedure right-to-counsel self-incrimination |
Whether a murder conviction based on a 17-year-old boy's statements made to police after he was held incommunicado for over 24 hours, the police ignor… |
| 22-5475 |
Merlin Williams v. Burl Cain, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circumstantial-evidence civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony wrongful-conviction |
Whether the Supreme Court of the United States should review the issues presented |
| 22-55 |
Leo Kramer, et ux. v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process evidence-fabrication fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-estoppel judicial-misconduct property-rights rule-60-motion standing |
Should lawyers be allowed to commit fraud upon the court? |
| 22-5502 |
In Re Artis Carroll |
|
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus involuntary-commitment legal-representation mental-health right-to-counsel |
Whether the involuntary commitment of a defendant to a psychiatric hospital without the assistance of counsel violates the defendant's constitutional … |
| 22-56 |
101 Houseco, LLC v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split criminal-forfeiture due-process parklane-hosiery property-rights standing third-party-claimant |
Whether a third-party claimant holding title to property that has been ordered forfeited as part of a criminal defendant's punishment must be permitte… |
| 22-57 |
Dean Allen Steeves, Acting Trustee of Brother's Keeper Ministries v. Internal Revenue Service |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
church-organization constitutional-law constitutional-mandate integrated-auxiliary iRS-subpoena jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge non-organization-private-church procedural-error subpoena substantive-law |
Whether the U.S. District and U.S. Appellate Court usurped jurisdiction and declined to exercise jurisdiction by denying Petitioner's Motion to Quash … |
| 22-59 |
Paul Nunu v. Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment ab-initio constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction first-amendment privileges-or-immunities rooker-feldman state-court-judgments void-ab-initio |
Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars inferior Federal Courts from voiding State Court judgments that are void ab initio under State and Federal la… |
| 22-6 |
Mortgage Resolution Servicing, LLC, et al. v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights continuing-violation damages due-process mortgage-loans standing statute-of-limitations summary-judgment |
Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its holding regarding damages |
| 22-60 |
Church of Scientology International, et al. v. Chrissie Carnell Bixler, et al. |
California |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response Waived |
arbitration-agreement church-membership civil-procedure establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise freedom-of-religion religious-arbitration |
Does the First Amendment prohibit enforcement of a religious arbitration agreement if a parishioner leaves the faith? |
| 22-61 |
Traci M. Cull v. Dyck-O'Neal, Inc., et al. |
Kentucky |
Denied |
|
default-judgment due-process foreclosure property-deprivation service-of-process state-judiciary state-law wage-garnishment |
Whether due process is violated when a state court enters a default judgment based on improper service of process |
| 22-64 |
Samuel Arrington v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process excessive-force false-arrest false-imprisonment habeas-corpus heck-doctrine plea-agreement |
Whether Heck applies to a former prisoner who was ineligible to challenge his subsequent conviction through federal habeas |
| 22-66 |
Keith Kreszowski v. FCA US, LLC, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
americans-with-disabilities-act causal-connection disability-discrimination disability-perception job-relatedness medical-exam medical-examination pretext pretext-standard retaliation-claim summary-judgment |
When does an employer cross the line from permissive but subjective request for a medical exam to an impermissible exam that evidences a perception of… |
| 22-68 |
Perry Adron McCullough v. David F. Levi, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
accardi-doctrine civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-authority standing tort-claim |
Whether a prosecutor can legally escape answering the 'Accardi Doctrine' by dismissing a case as 'frivolous' or 'meritless' without a substantive basi… |
| 22-69 |
Ampersand Chowchilla Biomass, LLC, et al. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split compliance-threshold energy-facility environmental-compliance federal-law placed-in-service renewable-energy tax-benefits tax-incentives |
Whether an energy facility is 'placed in service' within the meaning of federal law whenever it can produce and sell some electricity without regard f… |
| 22-7 |
Joe Carollo v. William O. Fuller, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
discretionary-function eleventh-circuit legislative-immunity mitchell-v-forsyth municipal-elected-official municipal-official policy-making qualified-immunity scott-v-harris |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals' narrow application of the legislative-immunity doctrine to a municipal-elected-official departs-from-an… |
| 22-71 |
Jerald Hammann v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. |
Minnesota |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal-prematurity civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-findings due-process individual-rights judicial-procedure judicial-procedures legal-review procedural-error standing |
Whether a lower court erred in finding an appeal premature, but then attempting to make findings relative to the premature appeal |
| 22-72 |
Jerald Hammann v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. |
Minnesota |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights dismissal-with-prejudice due-process judicial-procedure law-of-case law-of-the-case lower-court-jurisdiction rule-60.02 |
Whether a lower court is obligated to abide by the law of the case even if it claims the appellate court erred |
| 22-73 |
Usha Jain, et vir v. David Barker, et al. |
Florida |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-removal federal-statute jurisdiction remand-order removal-jurisdiction standing state-court state-court-proceedings |
Whether state court proceedings and orders are void during the removal period |
| 22-74 |
Allen Patterson v. City of New York, New York, et al. |
New York |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-service civil-service-commission government-agency misconduct ny-statute resignation termination voluntary-resignation |
Is it legal for a government agency to convert an accepted voluntary resignation into a termination for misconduct? |
| 22-78 |
Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. v. Curtis Ulleseit, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-preemption fraudulent-joinder jurisdictional-review preemption summary-inquiry |
Whether courts may refuse to perform more than a summary inquiry to determine if defendants are fraudulently joined due to a pure issue of federal law |
| 22-83 |
B&G Foods North America, Inc. v. Kim Embry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-enforcement declaratory-relief injunctive-relief legal-immunity noerr-pennington noerr-pennington-doctrine standing state-actors unconstitutional-laws |
Whether the Noerr-Pennington doctrine immunizes state actors |
| 22-88 |
Kenneth Hawkins, et al. v. Department of Housing and Urban Development, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-discretion due-process housing housing-assistance judicial-review statutory-interpretation statutory-relief tenant-rights |
Whether the agency's withholding of statutory relief for tenants to obtain decent housing is final agency action subject to judicial review |
| 22-89 |
Michelle M. Newbauer v. Carnival Corporation, dba Carnival Cruise Line |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure eleventh-circuit federal-rules iqbal iqbal-standard notice-pleading pleading pleading-standards rule-8 twombly twombly-standard |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit required an unnecessary and unrealistic level of detail in pleading factual allegations supporting a facially plausible c… |
| 22-91 |
Stephanie Logsdon Smith, et al. v. Kentucky |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
13th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation involuntary-servitude private-right-of-action probation-officer sexual-slavery slavery sovereign-immunity state-action thirteenth-amendment |
Whether the Constitution confers a private right of action against an individual State when that State violates the explicit prohibitions against slav… |
| 22-96 |
Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, Inc. |
First Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (11) |
abrogation circuit-split federal-jurisdiction financial-oversight-and-management-board puerto-rico puerto-rico-oversight sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation |
Does 48 U.S.C. § 2126(a)'s general grant of jurisdiction to the federal courts over claims against the Board and claims otherwise arising under PROMES… |
| 22M1 |
Kelly Conard v. Pennsylvania State Police, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 22M10 |
Kevin Curran v. Wendy Curran |
New Jersey |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 22M11 |
Clarence B. Jenkins, Jr. v. South Carolina Department of Employment Workforce, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 22M12 |
Shannon Copeland v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 22M13 |
John B. Myles v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 22M14 |
Jessica W. v. Little Flower Children and Family Services, et al. |
New York |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 22M2 |
Raymond Torres v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 22M3 |
Abdul Azeem Mohammed v. Prairie State Legal Services, Inc., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 22M4 |
Neil Roger Johnson, II v. Kelly Morriss, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 22M5 |
Randy Dingle v. Talmage S. Baggett, Judge, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 22M6 |
Sealed Appellant v. United States |
First Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 22M7 |
Reina Tea Wood-Jimenez v. Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles |
Ninth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 22M8 |
A. W., et al. v. Princeton Public Schools Board of Education, et al.. |
Third Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 22M9 |
Michael Vechery v. Florence Cottet-Moine |
Virginia |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
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