Conference: 2022-10-28

123 cases — 0 granted, 123 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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21-1013 Republic of Turkey v. Lusik Usoyan, et al. District of Columbia Denied CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) burden-of-proof discretionary-function-rule foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act policy-analysis policy-prong presidential-protection presidential-security-detail state-visit-security use-of-force Whether the Discretionary Function Rule within the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act applies to claims based upon a presidential security detail's use …
21-1453 Joe A. Lynch v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit Denied Amici (6) administrative-law legislative-history pro-claimant pro-veteran-canon standard-of-proof statutory-interpretation va-claims veterans-benefits Are the many millions of disabled veterans, their survivors and dependents entitled to have the VA meet a higher threshold of proof to deny their clai…
21-1525 Antonio Daron Futrell v. Virginia Virginia Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) abandonment abandonment-exception cell-phone-privacy cell-phones digital-data digital-privacy fourth-amendment riley-precedent riley-v-california search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the abandonment exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement allows the Government to conduct warrantless searches of the digital d…
21-1552 Central Specialties, Inc. v. Jonathan Large Eighth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-official legal-standard qualified-immunity scope-of-authority standing traffic-stops Whether courts must determine that a government official was acting within the scope of his authority before proceeding to the qualified-immunity anal…
21-1570 Randall L. Spade v. Department of Justice Third Circuit Denied administrative-review exclusive-liability federal-employees-compensation-act labor-secretary-decision statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction work-related-injuries Whether federal courts have subject-matter jurisdiction to address what injuries fall within the scope of FECA's statutory scheme
21-6017 Charles Louis v. Walter Berry, Warden Eleventh Circuit Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence appellate-review brady-violations constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct state-habeas Questions presented
21-7588 Gloria Marigny v. Centene Management Company LLC Seventh Circuit Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-144 appellate-review bias civil-rights conflict-of-interest district-court document-admissibility due-process federal-procedure judicial-recusal standing summary-judgment Why Judge Brett Ludwig Denied Motion for Recusal
21-7761 In Re Shannon Riley Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure counterclaim due-process jurisdiction punitive-damages res-judicata standing supersedeas-bond Can a Kansas state court reverse a Kansas appellate court on a counterclaim?
21-7851 Joseph Chhim v. City of Houston, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights civil-rights-act discrimination employment employment-discrimination employment-terms federal-courts protected-status statutory-interpretation title-vii workplace-conditions Are the 'terms, conditions, or privileges of employment' covered by Section 703(a)(1) limited only to hiring, firing, promotions, compensation, and le…
21-8247 Johnathan Carter v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abduction abduction-enhancement bank-robbery circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a person is 'abducted' within the meaning of § 2B1.3(b)(4)(A) if he is moved or ordered to move only a short distance within the same building…
21-8248 Lorenzo Newborn, Karl Darnell Holmes, and Herbert McClain v. California California Denied Relisted (2)IFP appointed-counsel court-appointment criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process in-forma-pauperis indigent-defendant indigent-status right-to-counsel supreme-court-rule writ-of-certiorari Whether petitioner should be granted leave to proceed in forma pauperis
21A785 Keishon Thompson v. Charles County Detention Center, et al. Maryland Presumed Complete None
22-159 Steven Pascale v. RPI Company California Denied civil-procedure concealment constitutional-rights disbarment discovery due-process federal-statutes lawyer-discipline legal-ethics legal-practice oath-of-office professional-misconduct Whether the district court erred in its August 3, 2021 ruling by closing discovery on July 20, 2020 and concealing the plaintiffs' case information pr…
22-165 Samuel M. Howard v. Office of the Special Deputy Receiver, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived amendment civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process eeoc-filing employment judicial-discretion standing title-vii Whether the District Court and Magistrate Judge did not consider all of the brief, filing, company witnesses, and business location and area
22-181 Resurrection School, et al. v. Elizabeth Hertel, Director, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived capable-of-repetition-yet-evading-review circuit-conflict constitutional-claims government-defendants judicial-review mootness mootness-doctrine presumption-of-good-faith voluntary-cessation Whether government defendants must satisfy the 'absolutely clear' standard under the voluntary cessation exception to mootness
22-182 Flom Disposal, Inc. v. Goodhue County, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived antidiscrimination-doctrine competition competition 22-181" competition-doctrine constitutional-claims discrimination dormant-commerce-clause government-defendants incineration inter-circuit-conflict interstate-commerce judicial-review landfill mootness-doctrine voluntary-cessation waste-disposal Whether under the voluntary cessation exception to Are disposing of garbage by depositing it in a landfill and disposing of garbage—the same garbage from the same sources—by incinerating it, competitor…
22-184 Christopher G. Parker v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived case-supplementation civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-procedure pro-se-defense right-to-counsel right-to-file-transcript right-to-supplement-record Whether the District Court and the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals violated the Petitioner's rights
22-185 Mandy Mobley Li v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue District of Columbia Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-action circuit-split internal-revenue-service judicial-review statutory-interpretation tax-court-jurisdiction tax-relief-and-health-care-act-of-2006 united-states-tax-court whistleblower-award Whether threshold rejections of whistleblower award requests are immune from the judicial review process established through the Administrative Proced…
22-188 Patrick J. O'Connell v. Jonna Z. Bianco Kentucky Denied 11-usc-362 11-usc-521 11-usc-541 28-usc-1334 28-usc-157 bankruptcy bankruptcy-jurisdiction constitutional-rights due-process federal-bankruptcy-code judicial-estoppel state-court-jurisdiction Bankruptcy-jurisdiction-and-procedure
22-197 Yvonne T. Massaro v. New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived adea age-discrimination burlington-northern causation causation-standard continuing-violation discrete-acts employment-retaliation hostile-work-environment pattern-and-practice retaliation Whether the Burlington Northern standard applies to ADEA retaliatory-harassment-claims
22-199 Barry J. Smith v. Community Care Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived citizenship civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Is the district court required to determine subject-matter jurisdiction before reaching the merits?
22-206 Bernice Curry-Malcolm v. New York State Teachers' Retirement System, et al. New York Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process pension pension-benefits property-rights standing state-constitution state-retirement-system state-statute Whether the word 'substantial' in the governing statute CPLR 5601(a) and the New York State Constitution provision for appeals as of right on constitu…
22-215 Heslin Gallagher v. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived 7th-amendment absolute-immunity civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jury-trial quasi-governmental-immunity securities-exchange-commission self-regulatory-organization seventh-amendment standing Whether clarification is needed to resolve the conflicts among the various circuits when a Self-Regulatory Organization registered with the Securities…
22-228 In Re Urvashi Bhagat Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-immunity bad-faith damages federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion mandamus patent-examination patent-rights takings takings-claim Whether the District Court abused discretion and obstructed justice
22-232 Shane Place and Misty Blackwell, as Personal Representatives of the Estate of Angel Place v. Joyce Anderson, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction deliberate-indifference due-process foster-care substantive-due-process summary-judgment Did the court of appeals in its de novo review of summary judgment abuse its appellate jurisdiction and deny petitioners due process by refusing to ad…
22-254 Gerardo Mendoza Casillas v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived None
22-282 Randall Pavlock, et al. v. Eric J. Holcomb, Governor of Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Amici (3)Response Waived fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment injunctive-relief judicial-taking property-rights standing state-court-decision takings Whether a 'judicial taking' under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments is a cognizable cause of action
22-303 Yuri J. Stoyanov v. Carlos Del Toro, Secretary of the Navy, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights cover-up discrimination due-process federal-employment judicial-misconduct mail-fraud pro-se-petition standing Whether the Supreme Court should intervene to reverse the district court's orders that denied discovery, depositions, hearings, and investigations int…
22-304 Frank Oswald v. Nicholas Mauer, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-jurists sixth-circuit Does a Circuit Court's denial of an application for a Certificate of Appealability based on the merits of the appeal, rather than on whether reasonabl…
22-307 Michigan v. Marcus Martell McCloud and Bruce Cliffin Edwards Michigan Denied Response Waived commonsense-judgments criminal-procedure detention frisk human-behavior law-enforcement officer-experience probable-cause reasonable-suspicion terry-stop weapons-frisk Whether the respondents were reasonably detained, and whether a frisk for weapons of a person reasonably detained may be based on commonsense judgment…
22-308 Ramin Seddiq v. Virginia Indigent Defense Commission, et al. Virginia Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process due-process-clause fourteenth-amendment judicial-conflict liberty-interest statutory-disclosure statutory-entitlement virginia-freedom-of-information-act Does the Virginia Freedom of Information Act afford the citizens of Virginia with a statutorily created liberty interest for Fourteenth Amendment purp…
22-318 Ronald Tai Young Moon, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure forfeiture public-trial sixth-amendment waiver What is the standard for finding a waiver (as opposed to mere forfeiture) of the Sixth Amendment right to a 'public trial?'
22-33 Jonathan Corbett v. Transportation Security Administration, et al. District of Columbia Denied administrative-law agency-authority civil-rights due-process mootness pandemic-response public-health-mandate standing statutory-interpretation Is a pandemic-related public health mandate within the statutory authority granted by Congress to the U.S. Transportation Security Administration?
22-47 Kerry Benninghoff, Individually and as Majority Leader of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives v. 2021 Legislative Reapportionment Commission, et al. Pennsylvania Denied Amici (1) civil-rights district-drawing equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legislative-redistricting racial-gerrymandering redistricting voting-rights-act Whether districts drawn for transparently racial reasons, without a VRA-compliance justification, satisfy the Fourteenth Amendment merely because the …
22-5162 Mary Jo Weidrick v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-representation civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-rights court-dismissal due-process enforcement judicial-review legal-procedure standing terrorism-allegations Whether the facts alleged in Petitioner's complaint are true and non-frivolous
22-5225 Craig Anthony Ross v. Ron Bloomfield, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP aider-and-abettor aiding-and-abetting cabana-v-bullock death-penalty enmund-v-florida habeas-corpus intent-to-kill jury-instructions murder-first-degree ninth-circuit-review shared-intent Did the Ninth Circuit err under Title 28, United States Code, Section 2254(d)(1) in affirming that the jury instructions given by the California Supre…
22-5382 Tyrone Hurt v. Alexander Williams, Jr. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 35-usc-101 civil-procedure due-process patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the patent statute
22-5390 Carina Conerly v. Julie G. Yap, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process frivolous-appeal frivolous-claim in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion standing Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding petitioners' claim to be frivolous
22-5391 Lin Ouyang v. Mark A. Borenstein, Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. Ninth Circuit Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals court-rules due-process final-judgment mandamus procedural-due-process statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari Whether the Court of Appeals has reached a genuinely final judgment under 28 U.S.C. §2101 (c) and this Court's Rule 13.3?
22-5392 Jane Doe v. City of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-accountability due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct legal-procedure Whether the federal court of appeals should be allowed to disregard the US Supreme Court's law, the US Code, the Federal Rules, the Constitution, the …
22-5395 Michael Gorrio v. Correctional Officer Francis, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rico civil-rico-conspiracy civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review motion-to-dismiss standard-of-review well-pleaded-facts Did the appellant's amended complaint ECF 43 present substantial 'well pleaded facts,' as to plausibly state a claim and support the claim to overcome…
22-5408 Lady Donna Dutchess v. Jason Dutch Alaska Denied IFP civil-rights establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise lemon-test medical-scientology religious-freedom vaccine-mandate vaccine-mandates Is the court's faith in vaccine mandates an unconstitutional establishment of the religion of medical scientology?
22-5416 James Montell Chappell v. Nevada Nevada Denied IFP capital-case fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder ineffective-assistance-of-counsel organic-brain-damage prejudice prejudice-prong strickland-standard strickland-v-washington When trial counsel in a capital case presents anecdotal evidence of prenatal exposure to alcohol and evidence of learning disability but not expert te…
22-5422 Vohn Robert Cooper v. Florida Florida Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum Whether the sentencing judge violated Cooper's Sixth Amendment right to have a jury determine any fact that increased the statutory maximum in his cas…
22-5423 Elise LaMartina v. Jason Patrick Johnson, et al. Mississippi Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-liability civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection indigent-rights interstate-commerce privileges-and-immunities Whether the State of Mississippi may unconstitutionally discriminate against interstate commerce to shield and protect its citizens and businesses fro…
22-5426 Joseph Antonetti v. Timothy Filson, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP autopsy-report certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-examiner Did the courts below err in denying a Certificate of Appealability to review the holdings of the district court and the Nevada Supreme Court that Mr. …
22-5432 Terence Valentine v. Florida Florida Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-development habeas-corpus jury-trial jury-verdict state-courts Whether a state court must allow evidentiary development of actual innocence claims and assess the totality of the case
22-5434 Zane D. Crowder v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence child-protection forensic-interview gateway-standard habeas-corpus impeachment-evidence mcquiggin-v-perkins new-evidence post-conviction-relief procedural-limitations Whether the new evidence relied upon by the Petitioner meets the gateway actual innocence standard set forth in McQuiggin v. Perkins
22-5442 Powell Jones, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP ake-v-oklahoma certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process due-process-expert expert-witness fifth-circuit-appeal ineffective-assistance standing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 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…
22-5444 Robert JW McCleland v. Rick Raemisch, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied IFP expert-witness indigent-litigants judicial-notice medical-evidence medical-information pro-se pro-se-litigant rule-201 rule-706 undue-burden Does requiring an expert witness to present medical information create an undue burden on the courts and unfairly prejudice pro se, indigent litigants…
22-5458 Kenneth Lainell Davis v. Florida Florida Denied IFP criminal-defendant criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process eighth-amendment felony jury jury-composition juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimum sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a twelve-person jury to try a criminal defendant accused of a felony offense
22-5463 Rahmael Sal Holt v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied IFP adequate brady-claim default-ruling due-process federal-law federal-review independent jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony Does the United States Supreme Court have jurisdiction to hear Petitioner's Brady claim because the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania's default ruling was…
22-5464 Barney Adrian Dunlap v. David Mitchell, Superintendent, Lanesboro Correctional Institution Fourth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses state-constitutional-rights Has the trial court erred by refusing to instruct the jury on lesser included offenses supported by the evidence, in violation of Dunlap's state and f…
22-5467 Antonio B. Moore v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 6th-amendment amendment-violation appellate-record civil-procedure constitutional-rights fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel search-warrant Did the Chief Deputy District Clerk err in excepting the search warrant and return without a prior stamp file on its-face and then file it into the ap…
22-5468 Benjamin Lawrence Petty v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
22-5476 John R. Wood v. Bryan Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP capital-punishment fourth-circuit-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis prison-conditions strickland-standard Wilson-v-Sellers Whether the state court unreasonably applied Strickland-v-Washington
22-5478 Lesester Duva McDaughtery v. Tammy Foss, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process false-evidence federal-courts foreign-policy habeas-corpus inherent-authority judicial-proceedings post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-proceedings Whether the Judiciary Act of 1789 and the inherent authority of federal courts to control their own proceedings sanctions a federal court's dismissal …
22-5479 Derek N. Jarvis v. United States Federal Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 1866-treaties cherokee-freedmen civil-rights federal-jurisdiction indian-treaties native-rights treaty-interpretation treaty-provisions tucker-act Can a trial court dismiss 1866 complaint based on number of provisions stated?
22-5485 Juan Daniel Cano v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas, Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure diligence district-court due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances fifth-circuit habeas-corpus standard-of-review Did the Fifth Circuit err in affirming the district court's finding that the petitioner failed to show both that he pursued habeas relief diligently a…
22-5486 Hillary Best v. New York City Police Department Sex Offender Unit Second Circuit Denied IFP 13th-amendment 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process Whether the State Statute, under New York Criminal Procedure Law §100.30(1)(d), is unconstitutional by allowing arrest and detention upon unsworn crim…
22-5488 Thomas James Dorn v. Verna Carpenter, Judge, District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process human-trafficking judicial-misconduct jury-trial protection-orders restraining-order standing Should an appearance be required for a loss of rights, and should the right to trial by jury be explained to the respondent going forward in the unite…
22-5496 Vance L. White v. Texas Texas Denied IFP court-modification criminal-procedure grand-jury indictment-elements ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-colloquy sentencing statutory-maximum Can the Judge modify the essential elements of the indictment?
22-5500 James R. LaPoint v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment appellate-record constitutional-rights criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process fair-trial Hardy-v-United-States incomplete-record Mayer-v-City-of-Chicago sentencing-review Do the State courts violate a defendant's 14th-Amendment-right-to-due-process-and-to-a-fair-and-complete-direct-appeal-when-they-become-aware-of-a-mat…
22-5501 In Re Eric Drake Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights court-access due-process first-amendment prefiling-injunction pro-se-litigation sanctions state-courts vexatious-litigant Whether federal courts can issue prefiling injunctions without notice and a hearing
22-5505 Elec Elmer Cusick v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-ruling post-conviction-relief retroactive-application retroactivity subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), is a substantive ruling or a procedural ruling
22-5510 Ronald Lebed, Sr. v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth District Court of Appeal violated the petitioner's Fourth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights
22-5512 Maurice Diggins v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-249 district-court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction public-interest public-interest-prosecution racially-motivated-assault substantial-justice thirteenth-amendment Does a United States district court have jurisdiction under the Thirteenth Amendment for a racially motivated assault prosecution under 18 USC Sec. 24…
22-5559 Patricio Estrada v. Troy Nehls, Sheriff, Fort Bend County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference disciplinary-isolation due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection medical-treatment prison-conditions Whether Estrada's due process rights were violated by being placed in disciplinary isolation prior to any hearing
22-5561 Terrance Brooks v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court appellate-review conviction due-process judicial-review napue-standard napue-v-illinois perjured-testimony perjury prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-likelihood Whether the Appellate Court of Illinois rejection of Mr. Brooks assertion of knowing use of perjured testimony to obtain a conviction had a reasonable…
22-5577 Marvin Davis v. Kevin Genovese, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP child-interview child-witness confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-counsel forensic-interviewer hearsay hearsay-statements sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the trial court erred in allowing the child video interview and whether T.C.A. section 24-7-123 is unconstitutional?
22-5579 William Baham v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance state-action supremacy-clause Whether the 14th Amendment imposes upon the States of Louisiana the obligation to refrain from systemic, purposeful deprivations of substantive federa…
22-5583 John Doe v. Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures
22-5599 Denzell Russell v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation plain-error plain-error-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Is the Sixth Circuit's application of plain-error-review under Fed.-R.-Crim.-P.-52(b) in conflict with this Court's decisions?
22-5600 Quincetta Y. Cargill v. Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit-of-bias appellate-review civil-rights counsel-ineffectiveness due-process judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct motion-denial personal-jurisdiction recusal standing Whether the district court judge's failure to disclose and respond to the petitioner's affidavit of personal bias and prejudice under 28 U.S.C. §§ 144…
22-5612 Luis F. Gomez v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment administrative-law constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct reversal statutory-interpretation witness-credibility Does a prosecutor's improper vouching for a witness unduly prejudice the defendant and require reversal under the 6th Amendment?
22-5615 Santiago Villa v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process property-rights search-and-seizure takings Whether the government's seizure of a person's property without a warrant or probable cause violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreaso…
22-5620 Ebrahim Kalatehe v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence-collection fourth-amendment judicial-review pen-register standing third-party-doctrine waiver Whether the government may use information obtained through a pen register against an individual over whom the government did not obtain a pen registe…
22-5621 Cody Ray Leveke, aka Cody Meyer, aka Cody Ray Meyers v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-communication criminal-law first-amendment free-speech jury-instruction statutory-interpretation subjective-intent true-threat Whether a true threat requires the specific intent to threaten violence
22-5625 Orville Tucker v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 3553(a)-factors circuit-split compassionate-release guideline-range non-delegation-doctrine sentencing-commission sentencing-law statutory-interpretation Did Congress delegate complete authority to the U.S. Sentencing Commission to define extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons for sentence-reduction
22-5626 James Earl Jones v. New Jersey New Jersey Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault case-law criminal-law criminal-statute jurisdiction legal-procedure murder remand sexual-assault statutory-interpretation whether-the-term-on-another-applies
22-5634 Nelson Jean Dion v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bail bail-condition criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-law interstate-travel protection-order statutory-interpretation Whether a state bail order/condition of release is a protection order under 18 U.S.C. § 2266(5) for purposes of violating 18 U.S.C. § 2262
22-5637 Dwayne Stone v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-law elements-clause federal-statute force physical-force physical-inaction statutory-interpretation Whether crimes of physical inaction have 'as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or property of …
22-5638 Hector Martinez-Robos v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substances criminal-procedure jury-instructions mandatory-minimum-sentences mens-rea plain-error sentencing statutory-interpretation whether-instructional-error-is-plain
22-5639 Eddie Dewayne Thomas v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a…
22-5655 Robert Frank Miller v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP compassionate-release criminal-history equal-protection procedural-fairness rehabilitation sentence-reduction sentencing-objectives standing waiver Whether the district and appellate court erred in denying the appellant's motion for a sentence reduction
22-5660 Jon Anthony Terry v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP ability-to-pay criminal-procedure district-court due-process future-assessment hypothetical-means judicial-discretion sentencing special-assessment statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may impose a special assessment under 18 U.S.C. 3014(a) based on a defendant's hypothetical future ability to pay, rather tha…
22-5665 Geoffrie Dill v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-offense federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Does 'controlled substance offense' refer only to substances prohibited by the Controlled Substance Act?
22-5668 Thomas Guerriero v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit judicial-review legal-argument precedent prior-precedent-rule stare-decisis Whether the Eleventh Circuit's prior precedent rule should be overturned
22-5676 Bernard D. Ellerbe v. Robert May, Warden, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability hinton-standard hinton-v-united-states ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan procedural-default strickland-claim strickland-v-washington third-circuit Did the Third Circuit & Delaware District Courts err by denying a Certificate of Appealability seeking to challenge procedural default findings where …
22-5677 Michael Louis McCarron v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-enticement circuit-split criminal-law due-process enticement-statute first-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether the Ninth Circuit decision that 'purely hypothetical' emails can support a conviction for violation of 18 U.S.C. §2422(b) (attempted enticemen…
22-5680 Wigberto Viera v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP drug-sting due-process judicial-authority mandatory-minimum reverse-sting sentencing-manipulation separation-of-powers stash-house Whether the Court should recognize the defense of sentencing manipulation
22-5683 Gregory Scott Savoy v. Peter Franchot, Comptroller of Maryland, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-amendment antipsychotics brain-integrity brain-shrinkage civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process government-tyranny medical-intervention ninth-amendment unenumerated-rights whistleblower Do Americans have an unenumerated right to retain a full-sized brain?
22-5691 Meamen Jean Nyah v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence-rule-404b federal-rules-of-evidence firearms firearms-case judicial-interpretation prior-bad-acts propensity-evidence Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) should be construed as a rule of inclusion resulting in certain admissibility of prior bad acts and use of pro…
22-5692 Kyle Brandon Rocha v. West Virginia West Virginia Denied Response WaivedIFP beyond-a-reasonable-doubt confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-hearing standard-of-proof Is it a violation of a defendant's rights to due process of law and confrontation for a Court to make a finding in a sentencing hearing based solely o…
22-5693 Rosa Isela Acuna v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-conviction criminal-law drug-importation due-process mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant can be convicted and subjected to enhanced punishment for drug type and quantity without proof of knowledge
22-5697 Robert Capelli v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment private-plane search search-and-seizure vehicle-exception warrant-requirement Whether the vehicle exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement applies to the search of a private plane
22-5701 Terry Wayne Cope v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release congress covid-19 criminal-procedure district-court judicial-discretion public-health sentencing Does the precedent that a defendant's incarceration during the COVID-19 Pandemic, when the defendant has access to the COVID-19 vaccine, does not pres…
22-5703 Charles Michael Ledford v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourth-circuit habeas-corpus pro-se statute-of-limitations summary-dismissal Whether it is inconsistent with this Court's Slack v. McDaniel 524 U.S. 473 (2002) standard for a Court of Appeals to decline to issue a Certificate o…
22-5704 Ronald Buzzard, Jr. v. Washington Washington Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-sentencing judicial-misconduct procedural-fairness sentencing sentencing-modification Whether the sentencing judge's handwritten 'fraudulent interlineations' on the face of the judgment, which changed the defendant's determinate sentenc…
22-5711 Joshua Austin Kramer, aka Benjamin Franklin v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-resources legal-innocence plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal prejudice withdrawal-of-plea Whether the district court erred by denying Petitioner's motion to withdraw his guilty plea
22-5713 In Re Roy Allen Nichols Denied IFP article-iv article-vi commerce-clause congressional-power constitution-cession constitutional-interpretation enumerated-powers federal-lands legislative-jurisdiction morality-legislation Which Article in the U.S. Constitution specifically provides for cession of lands from any of the several 50 Union States to the United States?
22-5720 Mark Julian Edmonds v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acca armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge procedural-standard residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional Whether Mr. Edmonds was required to prove that it is 'more likely than not' that the sentencing judge 'actually relied on' the ACCA's unconstitutional…
22-5721 Sealed Appellant v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-4245 constitutional-rights due-process government-action involuntary-transfer liberty-interest mental-health mental-health-detention statutory-procedure vitek-v-jones Whether the government violated petitioner's constitutional due process rights by involuntarily transferring him to, and holding him in, a secure ment…
22-5724 In Re Chad Small Denied IFP compliance-with-rules constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel knowingly-intelligently-voluntarily parties-to-proceeding sixth-amendment WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED HIS 6TH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL
22-5726 Veronica Gonzalez-Carmona v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP credibility drug-interdiction fourth-amendment law-enforcement officer-testimony rodriguez-precedent rodriguez-v-united-states safety-valve-relief traffic-stop whether-officer's-interspersed-drug-interdiction-questions-extend-traffic-stop
22-5729 Jose Madrid-Becerra v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-history criminal-procedure deportation early-release federal-criminal-defendants immigration immigration-law sentencing-guidelines state-statutes Whether U.S.S.G. § 4A1.1(d) applies to federal criminal defendants who were previously released from prison pursuant to state statutes authorizing the…
22-5730 Quincy Campbell v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof coconspirator-testimony criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the district court erred in sentencing the defendant
22-5733 Robert Brown, II v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-trial evidence fair-trial jury jury-bias perjury perjury-evidence rico rico-conspiracy sixth-amendment Whether the District Court's denial of admission of evidence regarding a Government cooperating witness committing perjury was error and affected the …
22-5738 Vernon J. Mills v. Virginia Virginia Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence civil-rights compulsory-process due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment Whether the appellate court erred in possessing the legal significance of the exculpatory material of the three sworn affidavits tending to exonerate …
22-5740 Rony Alexander Granados-Ortez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing 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…
22-5741 Anthony Delano Hylton, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-history criminal-procedure detention-duration fourth-amendment law-enforcement-inquiry prolonged-detention rodriguez-precedent rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop Does This Court's Decision in Rodriguez v. United States permit any criminal history inquiry at any traffic stop no matter how long the inquiry takes?
22-5751 Mark Ryan Shipley, aka Marc R. Shipley, aka Marc Ryan Shipley v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law felon-in-possession mens-rea rehaif statutory-interpretation Does the knowingly element apply to U.S.C. §921(a)(20)?
22-5754 Jamal Laurent v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-conviction district-court insufficient-evidence joint-trial joint-trials missing-witness missing-witness-instruction rico-act rico-statute unavailable-witness warrantless-seizure witness-statement Whether RICO is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. §924(c)
22-5760 Philip Joseph Spear v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review breach-of-promise constitutional-violation due-process judicial-error presumed-prejudice Did the appellate court err by overlooking a 5th Amendment Constitutional wrong, and by omission, fail to note, by the record, a breach of promise res…
22-5768 Issa Battle v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process jurisdiction separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Supreme Court's facial abrogation of 28 U.S.C. § 1264(a) is unconstitutional
22-5769 Donovan Lemont Bookman 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?
22-5775 William Robert Bramscher v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-rights conviction criminal-appeal first-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence presumption-of-innocence right-to-counsel Whether the First Amendment protects the right to advocate that one is innocent of any charged or convicted crime?
22-5777 In Re Adib Eddie Ramez Makdessi Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection evidence-tampering jury-instructions jury-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias Whether the trial court erred in denying the defendant's Rule 60(b) motion to vacate the conviction based on evidence of prosecutorial misconduct, rac…
22-76 Keith L. Carnes v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Amici (2) 2nd-amendment circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-statute drug-use due-process firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation unlawful-user Whether the government must show the defendant's regular or habitual drug use to establish that the defendant is an 'unlawful user' of a controlled su…
22A124 Edward Moses, Jr. Applicant v. John Bel Edwards, Governor of Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete None
22A170 Frank Deville, et al. v. Specialized Loan Servicing, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None
22M24 Sealed Appellant v. Sgt. Moore, et al. Fourth Circuit Presumed Complete None
22M25 Warren Havens v. Arnold Leong, et al. California Presumed Complete None