Conference: 2023-01-06

349 cases — 0 granted, 349 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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21-1338 NSO Group Technologies Limited, et al. v. WhatsApp Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) agent-entities agents-for-foreign-governments common-law-immunity foreign-sovereign-immunities-act government-contractors judicial-immunity legal-precedent private-entities samantar solicitor-general Whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act entirely displaces common-law immunity for entities, such that private entities that act as agents for fo…
21-1539 Spectrum Northeast, LLC, et al. v. Aaron M. Frey, Attorney General of Maine First Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) cable-communications-policy-act express-preemption preemption presumption-against-preemption rate-regulation state-and-local-laws state-law statutory-interpretation Whether the Cable Act preempts state and local laws that prevent cable companies from selling their services at their chosen rate for the final month …
21-1566 Juno Therapeutics, Inc., et al. v. Kite Pharma, Inc. Federal Circuit Denied Amici (5)Relisted (6) 35-usc-112(a) enablement federal-circuit invention-scope inventor-possession patent patent-law patent-specification statutory-interpretation written-description Whether the written description requirement under 35 USC 112(a) should be measured by the statutory standard or the Federal Circuit's 'possession' tes…
21-1571 Rozalyn Ragan, Personal Representative of the Estate of Charles Phillip Ragan, Deceased v. Melissa Ragan, aka Melissa Hudson Colorado Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) after an ERISA plan administrator has fully distr ERISA preempts a claimant's state-law right to th beneficiary-rights benefit-distribution distribution distribution-dispute erisa ERISA-preemption federal-court-jurisdiction life-insurance life-insurance-proceeds plan-administrator preemption state-law state-law-claim Whether ERISA preempts a state-law claim to recover life insurance plan proceeds after distribution
21-1601 Areli Carbajal Escobar v. Texas Texas GVR Amici (3)Relisted (7) capital-murder criminal-procedure death-penalty dna-evidence due-process false-evidence federal-court habeas-corpus state-court Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals err in holding that the prosecution's reliance on admittedly false DNA evidence to secure petitioner's convict…
21-7777 Vedal A. Davis v. Texas Texas Denied Relisted (2)IFP amendment-and-tolling constitutional-rights due-process false-evidence finality-of-prior-conviction ineffective-assistance jurisdiction legal-facts-pleadings-circumstances prosecutorial-misconduct statute-of-limitations trial-counsel-ineffectiveness trial-jurisdiction Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel,due-process,statute-of-limitations,grand-jury,prosecutorial-misconduct,habitual-offender
21-7830 Daniel Paul Starr v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma Tenth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-communication judicial-misconduct jury-instructions jury-note jury-unanimity trial-conduct Whether the trial court erred in allowing the jury to convict the defendant on a lesser charge (misdemeanor) despite the indictment for a felony charg…
21-7953 Antonio D. McCaster v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion petition-dismissal procedural-error related-cases standing time-bar Whether the United States District Court Northern District of Indiana South Bend Division's judge abused his discretion in dismissing the petitioner's…
21-7998 Lamar Daniel Ron Wilson v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP charging-instrument constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process felony-information indictment ineffective-counsel plea-agreement Plea-agreement-as-sole-evidence-for-conviction
21-8098 Rocky Christian v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP anders-review appellate-procedure appellate-review fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction plain-error self-defense self-defense-instruction sixth-amendment Did the Fifth District Court of Appeal for the State of Florida conduct an adequate review of the record pursuant to Anders v. California 386 U.S. 738…
21-8155 Chad M. Vice v. City of Fort Madison, Iowa, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
21-8192 Ronnie L. Thums v. Larry Fuchs, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process ex-parte-communications ex-parte-meeting habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias jury-tampering right-to-counsel whether-a-judge-has-jurisdiction-to-make-criminal-threats
21-8210 Ralph William Lee, III v. Maryland Maryland Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights confidential-documents constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment right-to-counsel unreasonable-seizure waiver warrantless-search Did the lower court violate Maryland Rule 4-215 and Appellant's constitutional rights by failing to ensure that he knowingly and voluntarily waived hi…
22-100 Fairholme Funds, Inc., et al. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit Denied due-process government-taking just-compensation property-rights public-benefit shareholder-rights shareholders-rights standing takings-clause If the United States causes a company to transfer to the United States for the public benefit private shareholders' rights incident to their ownership…
22-107 Marianne E. Burke v. Criterion General, Inc., et al. Alaska Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights due-process funeral-expenses gross-negligence legal-representation schiel wedmore white workers-compensation workplace-negligence workplace-safety Was Workers' Compensation law and the cases of Schiel, Wedmore, and White involving mostly injury, misapplied to this case; a case that is about gross…
22-124 Brett C. Kimberlin v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Amici (1) circuit-split civil-disability civil-rights collateral-consequences criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review standing writ-of-error-coram-nobis Whether a petitioner must show he suffers from a 'civil disability' before a court can grant a writ of error coram nobis
22-132 Carlos Ruben Ruiz v. Massachusetts Massachusetts Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure demeanor-evidence due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments forbid judges (or prosecutors) from instructing (or inviting) the jury to take into account a non-testifyi…
22-162 Tariq B. Alabbassi v. Christine E. Wormuth, Secretary of the Army Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure administrative-time-limit burden-of-proof circuit-court civil-rights due-process eeo-complaint employment-discrimination federal-regulations statute-of-limitations When does the 45-day time limit start under 29 C.F.R. § 1614.105(a)(1)?
22-163 Lenair Moses v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law agency-deference auer-deference criminal-law judicial-interpretation kisor-v-wilkie precedential-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether the limits on agency deference announced in Kisor constrain the deference that courts may accord to the commentary to the Sentencing Guideline…
22-173 Roger Swartz v. Board of Trustees of University of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment-rights bar-admission child-representation-rights civil-rights due-process experiential-legal-learning legal-education non-traditional-legal-representation standing state-action state-actor-interference tort-case-representation When one learns the practice of law limited through experiential learning because they have been deprived of their 14th-Amendment-rights and many othe…
22-180 Matthew Stanek, et al. v. St. Charles Community Unit School District No. 303 Board of Education, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) ada ada-compliance civil-rights collateral-bar-rule constitutional-challenges deposition-discrimination discovery due-process equal-access law-office-accessibility sanctions Whether a law office is subject to the non-discrimination requirements of the Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act
22-209 Transamerica Retirement Solutions, LLC v. Gloria A. Addison, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied cafa circuit-split class-action-fairness-act diversity-jurisdiction federal-diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction local-single-event local-single-event-exception mass-action statutory-interpretation Whether the phrase 'an event or occurrence' in CAFA's local single event exception means what it says—'a single happening'—as the Ninth Circuit holds,…
22-217 Grant S. Kim v. Superior Court of California, County of Riverside Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights default-judgment due-process eleventh-amendment eleventh-amendment-immunity eminent-domain jurisdictional-challenge military-service-protection servicemembers-civil-relief-act standing Whether the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) protects an active military servicemember from a default judgment resulting in the loss of real pro…
22-218 Steven Christopher Knapp v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure complaint-dismissal due-process judicial-bias judicial-impartiality judicial-misconduct legal-standards rule-8 standing Does a judge have an unqualified right to nullify a complaint based on length alone?
22-220 Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (2) antiunion-animus arbitration-procedures circuit-split collective-bargaining mandatory-arbitration railway-labor-act statutory-interpretation union-representation union-representatives Whether union 'representatives' under 45 U.S.C. § 152 Third means all union officers (as the court below held), only those union officers serving as c…
22-226 Cintas Corporation, et al. v. Raymond Hawkins, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration civil-procedure contract-enforcement defined-contribution employee-rights erisa fiduciary-duty retirement-plan standing Whether an agreement to arbitrate claims against an ERISA plan's fiduciaries under Section 502(a)(2) of ERISA is enforceable without regard to whether…
22-234 Texas, et al. v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied administrative-law civil-procedure due-process executive-power federal-rule immigration intervention judicial-procedure litigation-strategy public-charge standing Whether petitioners were entitled to intervene in defense of the Rule
22-235 Paul S. Morrissey, et al. v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. District of Columbia Denied Amici (2) appellate-circuit-split case-termination civil-procedure dismissal dismissal-standard federal-rules prejudice prejudice-analysis standard-of-review statute-of-limitations willful-noncompliance Whether a discretionary dismissal without prejudice, which nevertheless functions as a dismissal with prejudice because it would end a case forever, i…
22-242 Cyrano R. Irons v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court harmless-error judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered categorically harmless by the district court's assertion that the Guidelines woul…
22-243 Museum of Fine Arts, et al. v. David L. de Csepel, et al. District of Columbia Denied civil-procedure civil-rights exhaustion federal-rules foreign-policy foreign-sovereign-immunity international-comity republic-of-philippines-v-pimentel rule-19 sovereign-defense Whether non-immune foreign sovereign entities may raise a defense of international comity (exhaustion)
22-247 Jacqueline Chui v. Benjamin Tze-Man Chui, et al. California Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection guardian-ad-litem minor minor-rights Does the California guardian ad litem procedure deprive a minor of due process rights?
22-249 Chambers Self-Storage Oakdale, LLC v. Washington County, Minnesota Minnesota Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) assessment assessment-methodology constitutional-claim discovery due-process equal-protection judicial-review property-tax unequal-assessment Does the right to Due Process prohibit a State from depriving real property taxpayers the right to conduct discovery of assessment data and methods, t…
22-251 Michael Chui v. Benjamin Tze-Man Chui, as Trustee, et al. California Denied california-law civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion due-process evidentiary-hearing guardian-ad-litem minor-rights settlement-authority standing Is a near-adult ward's right to due process violated by California's law allowing courts to settle actions involving the minor without the minor's kno…
22-253 Christine Chui v. Benjamin Tze-Man Chui, et al. California Denied civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing government-action guardianship judicial-procedure property-rights settlement settlement-binding Whether government can deprive real properties from parties without due process
22-259 Lewis B. Jones v. United States Federal Circuit Denied armed-forces claim-accrual disability-rating medical-technology military-service retirement-pay statute-of-limitations tucker-act veterans-benefits Whether a cause of action for retirement pay can accrue and for the statute of limitations to run before a service member receives a disability rating…
22-260 Burtonsville Associates, et al. v. Montgomery County, Maryland, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied church-construction equal-terms equal-terms-claim free-exercise religious-exercise religious-land-use rluipa substantial-burden zoning zoning-denial Must a congregation prove reasonable expectation of zoning approval to establish substantial burden under RLUIPA?
22-265 Christopher N. Caputo v. Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) arbitral-awards arbitration-law contractual-forfeiture contractual-provisions federal-arbitration-act judicial-review public-policy-exception statutory-interpretation statutory-violations Whether the public policy exception applies to an arbitral award enforcing contractual provisions that are expressly illegal, void, and unenforceable …
22-285 B-21 Wines, Inc., et al. v. Hank Bauer, Chair, North Carolina Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission Fourth Circuit Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split commerce-clause interstate-commerce nondiscrimination-principle public-health-and-safety retail-distribution retail-wine-distribution twenty-first-amendment wine-shipping Does the nondiscrimination principle of the Commerce Clause apply to and invalidate North Carolina's law allowing only in-state retailers to ship wine…
22-288 TD Bank, N.A. v. Tania Pulliam, et al. California Denied Amici (1) attorney-fees civil-procedure consumer-credit contract-law creditor-liability holder-rule recovery-limitation seller-misconduct Whether the Holder Rule's limit on 'recovery' by the debtor applies to and caps an attorney's fee award in a Holder Rule suit against a creditor based…
22-289 The National Association of Realtors, et al. v. The PLS.com, LLC Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) antitrust antitrust-market illinois-brick indirect-network-effects indirect-purchaser-rule multiple-listing-services ohio-v-american-express relevant-market standing-to-sue two-sided-platform Whether courts must analyze both sides of a two-sided platform with indirect network effects in defining the relevant antitrust market, as required by…
22-292 James D. Sullivan v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) establishment-clause free-exercise government-speech lemon-test public-forum religious-display Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Lemon test to the government's display of a religious monument
22-309 City of Salinas, California v. New Harvest Christian Fellowship Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-rights equal-terms equal-terms-provision facial-challenge land-use-regulation religious-land-use rluipa zoning zoning-ordinance What must a RLUIPA plaintiff show in a facial 'equal terms' challenge?
22-310 A. W., et al. v. Princeton Public Schools Board of Education, et al. Third Circuit Denied Relisted (3) civil-rights educational-placement educational-placement-and-settlement-agreement federal-court individuals-with-disabilities-education-act procedural-safeguards special-education state-law waiver-of-rights Whether a school district can condition special education services on a parent's agreement to waive a child's federal statutory and civil rights
22-320 Kenneth R. Spirito v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied 18-usc-666 circuit-court-interpretation federal-program-fraud intentional-misapplication kelly-v-united-states property-deprivation prosecutorial-scope regulatory-authority statutory-interpretation Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in holding that prosecutions for violations of 18 U.S.C. § 666(a)(1)(A) under a theory of intentional misapplication …
22-322 Zia Shaikh v. Madeline F. Einbinder, et al. Third Circuit Denied access-to-courts civil-rights de-novo-review due-process first-amendment judicial-immunity section-1915 standing vexatious-litigant Did the Third Circuit err in not doing a De Nova Review
22-323 Oakbrook Land Holdings, LLC, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (4) administrative-procedure-act charitable-donations conservation-easement conservation-easements income-tax-deductions judicial-review proceeds-regulation regulatory-process tax-deduction treasury-department Whether Treasury's failure to respond to comments raising concerns about the Proceeds Regulation, 26 C.F.R. § 1.170A-14(g)(6)(i) violated the Administ…
22-327 Confederación Hípica de Puerto Rico, Inc., et al. v. Confederación de Jinetes Puertorriqueños, Inc., et al. First Circuit Denied Amici (2) antitrust antitrust-law concerted-action employer-employee-relationship employment employment-relationship independent-contractors labor-dispute labor-exemption statutory-interpretation Whether the statutory labor exemption from the antitrust laws encompasses concerted action by independent contractors
22-334 Alice Guan v. Gary Bell, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment notice-of-appeal petition-government Whether Fourth Circuit affirming district court's decision based on altered Notice of Appeal without performing any review on the merit of the appeal …
22-339 Pfizer Inc. v. Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Second Circuit Denied Amici (5) advisory-opinion-process anti-kickback-statute criminal-intent healthcare-fraud medical-decision-making medicare mens-rea remuneration rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation Whether the Anti-Kickback Statute is violated only if the person offering the remuneration intends to corrupt the recipient's medical decision-making
22-343 Lynn S. King v. New York, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived divorce-proceedings domestic-relations domestic-relations-law first-amendment free-exercise religious-covenant religious-wedding sacred-covenant standing Whether New York Domestic Relations Law 170(7) violates the Free Exercise of religion clause
22-356 Everton Daye v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Eleventh Circuit Denied Amici (1) None
22-359 Roda T. Gidey v. Settlement Corp., et al. District of Columbia Denied civil-rights due-process equal-protection interpleader racial-discrimination real-estate summary-judgment Whether the decision of the D.C. Court of Appeals should be reversed and the case remanded because the due process and equal protection rights of Peti…
22-376 Louisville-Jefferson County, Kentucky Metropolitan Government, et al. v. Johnetta Carr Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-action conviction criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey pardon section-1983 May a convicted offender, subsequently pardoned, bring a § 1983 action where the pardon fails to expunge the underlying criminal conviction or call it…
22-390 Shahrouz Jahanshahi v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California Denied Response Waived appellate-rights attorney-fees attorneys-fees civil-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-sanction limited-jurisdiction rule-of-law sanctions whether-the-superior-court-of-california-has-exceeded-its-jurisdiction
22-391 Shahrouz Jahanshahi v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. California Denied Response Waived anti-SLAPP anti-slapp-statute appellate-procedure appellate-review case-transfer civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process ghostwriting judicial-procedure standing Does California anti-SLAPP statute protect illegal activity?
22-397 Maria Solange Ferrarini v. Ipek Irgit, et al. Second Circuit Denied 17-usc-507b civil-procedure claim-accrual copyright-infringement federal-circuit-split judicial-interpretation laches laches-doctrine petrella-v-mgm statute-of-limitations Whether the judge-made laches-like ownership claim accrual test applies to bar a copyright infringement suit brought within the three-year look-back p…
22-399 Adam Dean Brown v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied accident-reconstruction burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence expert-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct traffic-accident Did Petitioner satisfy the burden for the issuance of a certificate of appealability on his ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claims
22-400 Mark Barinholtz v. HomeAdvisor, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit Denied appellate-review civil-procedure federal-courts federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion jurisdiction jurisdictional-rules procedural-flexibility timeliness timeliness-doctrine Whether federal courts should follow strict timeliness rules for appellate review or allow flexibility to exercise rights of review in an orderly, rea…
22-403 Frances Endencia v. American Psychiatric Association, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived 18-usc-1347 42-usc-1983 administrative-review civil-rights civil-rights-violation health-care-fraud license-suspension medical-records-sharing psychiatric-diagnosis stigma unemployment Is the American Psychiatric Association's design and training of students to rewrite complaints into psychiatric disorders, with the goal of altering …
22-405 Michael Leon Grubb v. Texas Texas Denied 5th-amendment confession confessions due-process fifth-amendment interrogation law-enforcement miranda-rights self-incrimination supreme-court-precedent whether-the-supreme-court's-1987-decision-in-mauro-effectively-abdicated-its-1980-holding-in-innis
22-407 Maria Herta v. Terrie E. Roberts Ninth Circuit Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights corporate-governance due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech freedom-of-speech jurisdictional-challenge oath-of-office standing Is the federal government's statutory law and corporate policies superior to the U.S. Constitution?
22-408 Alice Guan v. Ellingsworth Residential Community Association, Inc. Eleventh Circuit Denied adversary-proceeding appellate-review bankruptcy-court-order bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-procedure dismissal-with-prejudice final-order judicial-activity standing Whether district court's order dismissing case 6:20-ap-55 with prejudice is a final order that Eleventh Circuit must review
22-409 Alexander Moskovits v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-recusal supervisory-power Whether instituting sealed proceedings in a civil case violates Constitutional rights
22-414 Timothy R. Bonner, et al. v. Leigh Chapman, in Her Official Capacity as Acting Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania Denied Response Waived article-i-section-4 constitutional-interpretation election-procedure elections-clause federal-elections fourteenth-amendment mail-in-voting pennsylvania-law standing state-regulation voting-rights Does Pennsylvania's Act 77 no-excuse mail-in voting law violate Article I § 4 of the United States Constitution?
22-415 Mark Elliott Stuart v. Arizona Arizona Denied Response Waived civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-law due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech municipal-code statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether Scottsdale Revised Code 19-13 is overbroad and violates the First Amendment
22-416 Tuhin Kumar Biswas v. Ethan Rouen, et al. Second Circuit Denied 42-U.S.C.-1983 42-usc-1983 appeal appellate-review copyright-act federal-cause-of-action first-amendment plagiarism state-actor Is Copyright Act the only Federal Cause of Action under which Plagiarism can be adjudicated?
22-420 In Re Ohio, ex rel. Terpsehore P. Maras Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge election-law election-observers equal-protection fundamental-right-to-vote independent-candidates party-representation political-parties strict-scrutiny voting-rights Whether Ohio law allowing for Republican and Democratic Parties' election observers while requiring Independent candidates to obtain consent from four…
22-421 D. A.. v. Portage County, Wisconsin Wisconsin Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 6th-amendment children-in-need-of-protection civil-rights cross-examination due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment standing witness-testimony Whether a natural father is entitled to basic Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment Due Process during Wisconsin Children in Need of Protection or Services p…
22-423 Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee, dba Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools v. John Doe, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived actionable-harassment actual-knowledge civil-rights deliberate-indifference peer-harassment peer-on-peer-harassment school-district-liability school-liability title-ix In a peer-on-peer harassment Title IX claim, under what circumstances can a school district be liable when a plaintiff relies on the harassment of oth…
22-426 Transperfect Global, Inc., et al. v. Robert Pincus Delaware Denied contempt contempt-power corporate-litigation declaratory-judgment delaware-law due-process first-amendment judicial-declaration petition-clause Whether holding TPG in contempt because it filed a lawsuit in Nevada unconstitutionally burdened TPG's First-Amendment-right-to-petition
22-428 Deborah Walton v. First Merchants Bank Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived billing-errors dispute-letters due-process fair-credit-billing-act first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process statute-of-limitations Whether a Creditor must follow the requirements specified in 1974 by the Fair Credit Billing Act
22-433 The Lawyers' Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, Inc., et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General of the United States, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived 11-Sep 9-11 article-iii article-iii-standing civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-circuits federal-courts first-amendment grand-jury judicial-remedies standing Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Act Contrary to the Constitution and in Conflict with Decisions of the Supreme Court Whe…
22-437 Sandra Lorena Hernandez-Ortez, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Eleventh Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response Waived None
22-438 Glow In One Mini Golf, L.L.C., et al. v. Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 5th-amendment constitutional-rights covid-19 covid-19-shutdown emergency-powers equal-protection equal-protection-clause fifth-amendment qualified-immunity takings-clause Whether Minnesota's Governor has qualified immunity against Petitioners' Fifth Amendment Takings Clause claims
22-439 Fraternal Order of Police, United States Park Police Labor Committee v. Department of the Interior Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure employment-law federal-circuit judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation union union-standing Whether the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's interpretation of 5 U.S.C. § 7703(a)(1) is incorrect in finding that an employee's union, on th…
22-440 Peter Daza v. Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-court-interpretation claim-preclusion continuing-acts discrete-acts judgment-limitation limitation-periods related-acts sanctions transaction whether a judgment on discrete acts that occur before a judgment preclude claims for related discrete acts that occur after a judgment, because of an …
22-446 Cheryl Prince-Moore v. Texas Dow Employees Credit Union Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights due-process employee-rights employment employment-termination family-medical-leave-act fmla-rights health-benefits job-protection statutory-violation termination workplace-discrimination Whether an employer's immediate termination of an employee's employment without any prior offense or communication violates the Family and Medical Lea…
22-453 Hyuk Kee Yoo, aka Keith Yoo v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response Waived extradition-proceedings extradition-treaty individual-liberty judicial-discretion judiciary-role limitations-provisions statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent treaty-interpretation Whether interpreting Article 6 of the U.S.-South Korea Extradition Treaty as a discretionary issue for the Secretary of State conflicts with Supreme C…
22-454 Garey Webb v. U.S. Bank National Association, As Trustee for CRMSI REMIC Series 2006-03 REMIC Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-03 Oklahoma Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure fourteenth-amendment fraud fraud-on-court property-rights Whether the Oklahoma Supreme Court violated the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments by failing to address fraud and permitting a foreclosure judgment thro…
22-457 Peter Whyte v. Dan Winkleski, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-claim federal-constitution federal-law habeas-corpus material-facts plain-statement state-pleading-standard state-procedural-rule Whether a state court's dismissal of a habeas petitioner's claim under the U.S. Constitution for failure to plead sufficient 'material facts' under a …
22-463 Aenergy, S.A., et al. v. Republic of Angola, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure federal-courts foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity forum-non-conveniens jurisdiction jurisdictional-exception sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation Whether courts may dismiss FSIA suits against foreign sovereign defendants on forum non conveniens grounds
22-467 HANWJH v. NBA Properties, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process fair-play-and-substantial-justice interactive-website international-shoe-standard minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction single-sale specific-jurisdiction Whether the 'minimum contacts' requirement is met to establish specific personal jurisdiction over a non-resident defendant
22-470 Oceltip Aviation 1 Pty Ltd. v. Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-provision choice-of-law contract-interpretation federal-arbitration-act federal-common-law state-law state-standards Whether courts may displace state contract interpretation principles with a federal common law rule requiring 'clear intent' to opt out of the Federal…
22-473 Hancock County Land Acquisitions, LLC v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived anti-injunction-act civil-procedure due-process irs iRS-procedure judicial-review tax-assessment tax-collection tax-law taxpayer-rights Whether the Anti-Injunction Act's bar on lawsuits for the purpose of restraining the assessment or collect of taxes also bars courts from enforcing la…
22-474 Laddie Huffman, et al. v. Rachel Harris Fifth Circuit Dismissed Response RequestedResponse Waived civil-rights constitutional-duties criminal-procedure detention due-process fifth-circuit mental-health qualified-immunity schizophrenic-inmate section-1983 Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in finding that the Due Process Clause imposes an obligation on county sheriffs to release a violently dangerous schiz…
22-475 Binyamin I. Efreom, et al. v. Daniel McKee, Governor of Rhode Island, et al. First Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights contract-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment pension-reform procedural-due-process rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 taking-without-compensation takings Whether Petitioners' procedural due-process, takings, contract-rights were violated by deprivation of federal-remedy
22-476 Fraternal Order of Police, Metropolitan Police Department Labor Committee, D.C. Police Union v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived civil-rights collective-bargaining constitutional-law contract-clause due-process impairment-of-contract police police-discipline takings Whether the removal of police officers' disciplinary rights contained in their collective bargaining agreement substantially impairs that agreement in…
22-480 City of Palestine, Texas, et al. v. Union Pacific Railroad Company Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-conflict circuit-split contractual-obligations iccta-preemption interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-commission-termination-act judicial-review preemption retroactive-application summary-judgment Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in retroactively applying the preemption provisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act (ICCTA) to a…
22-485 Kenneth Charles McNeil v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived all-writs-act coram-nobis courts-of-equity criminal-judgment criminal-procedure equity evidentiary-hearing federal-courts habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation Whether federal courts of equity had jurisdiction to correct criminal judgments after completion of the sentence, and, if so, whether federal courts v…
22-487 Douglas Tyrone Armstrong v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived ABA-standards capital-murder constitutional-deficiency criminal-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prevailing-norms professional-competence Whether an incarcerated inmate's trial counsel provided constitutionally deficient representation
22-494 Melodie DePierro v. Las Vegas Police Protective Association Metro, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived collective-bargaining consent first-amendment free-speech government-employer janus-precedent janus-v-afscme union-dues Can the government and a union restrict when employees can exercise their First Amendment right not to subsidize union speech without the employees' a…
22-496 Jheshua Daniel Jackson v. Colorado Colorado Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment in-absentia-trial right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-in-absentia Do the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution permit a court to deny a criminal defendant his request for appointment of co…
22-5031 Thomas Sawyer v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection public-services race-discrimination Whether the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits the government from discriminating against individuals based on their race i…
22-5038 Kevin Lee Kennedy v. Dan Watts, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus standing Whether the U.S. District Court's Summary Judgment is defective or void due to only naming one of the three parties: The White Pine Sheriff's Dept, an…
22-5056 Rosa Serrano v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review case-dismissal civil-procedure court-record disclosure due-process first-amendment judicial-procedure legal-standards procedural-dismissal public-records standing Whether the respondent properly sought publicity when dismissed without a full record, although requested, and whether the respondent's right to discl…
22-5086 Nouboukpo Gassesse v. University of Connecticut Connecticut Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 14th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection motion-for-default state-court-decisions summary-judgment trial-court-procedure Whether the plaintiff's 14th-amendment-due-process rights were violated by the trial court's alleged unequal treatment of the parties
22-509 J. T. H., et al. v. Spring Cook Eighth Circuit Denied Amici (3)Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment hartman-v-moore law-enforcement qualified-immunity retaliatory-investigation retaliatory-investigations Whether investigations—even when they lack probable cause—are so categorically different from other retaliatory acts that they cannot be the basis for…
22-5098 Arthur Torlucci v. California California Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law agency-adjudication appointments-clause civil-rights due-process judicial-review legal-standard lower-court-ruling protected-activity securities-regulation separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Whether the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution requires that administrative law judges of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission be app…
22-5111 Robert Doyle Harper v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-law defendant-rights due-process federal-courts federal-criminal-procedure judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice waiver Whether appellate waivers in federal criminal cases contain an implied exception for judgments that represent a miscarriage of justice?
22-512 Mohamad Youssef Hammoud v. Serkou Ma’at, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence circuit-precedent circuit-split collateral-review federal-prisoners habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statutory-interpretation Whether federal inmates who did not receive a meaningful opportunity to be heard on a substantial actual-innocence claim can show that the remedy by §…
22-514 Edwar Rodriguez v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) advisory-sentencing-guidelines criminal-history criminal-sentencing dangerous-weapon dangerous-weapon-enhancement drug-quantity eleventh-circuit sentence-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines statutory-sentencing-factors Whether certiorari review should be granted
22-515 Herbert Traver v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights cross-examination due-process fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct Did the prosecutor engage in intentional misconduct by employing a known falsehood, thereby depriving the Petitioner of a fair trial in violation of h…
22-5218 Reginald Dexter Carr, Jr. v. Kansas Kansas Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment automatic-reversal due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment harmless-error sixth-amendment structural-error Was the denial of Reginald Carr's Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to testify structural constitutional error requiring automatic reversal…
22-5220 Palani Karupaiyan v. Jatinder Singh, et al. Third Circuit Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process federal-statutes intellectual-property procedural-error standing tax-evasion USCA failed to vacate the Sua sponte order of dismissing the complaint is error
22-5275 Russell M. Boles v. Jeff Long, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP case-statement civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process evidence jurisdictional-issue jury-instructions legal-procedure negligence standard-of-review statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari Whether the court erred in drawing an adverse inference against the petitioner
22-5286 Jesse James Palato v. Dwayne Hamilton, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment anonymous-messages anonymous-messaging certificate-of-appealability fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure social-media probable-cause,anonymous-messages,social-media,4th-amendment,search-and-seizure,certificate-of-appealability
22-530 Daniel A. Bench v. United States Armed Forces Denied Response Waived child-witness confrontation confrontation-right court-martial plain-error prosecutorial-misconduct remote-testimony sixth-amendment Does a prosecutor's in-court lie to secure a witness's testimony constitute misconduct that materially prejudices an accused's' Sixth Amendment right …
22-5319 Gary Lee Rollins v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex West Virginia Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process immunity-agreement napue-v-illinois napue-violation prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility Does a court commit prejudicial error under Brady v. Maryland and Napue v. Illinois when it makes erroneous factual findings and unreasonable legal co…
22-5336 Brian Scott Berryman v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-decisions criminal-law due-process federalism judicial-law legislative-intent public-interests standing statutory-construction Whether the state court decision conflicts with relevant decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court and affects broad public interests
22-5357 Deanna D. v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services Tennessee Denied Relisted (2)IFP child-welfare civil-rights due-process ex-parte-order iv-e-funding parental-rights removal state-intervention What is the purpose of the removal of children from the mother's care when there is no reason for the removal?
22-5419 Erika Jacobs v. Geisinger Wyoming Medical Center Third Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts standing statutory-interpretation Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred in its decision
22-5425 William Paul Burch v. Bank of America, N.A. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-iii-court civil-procedure constitutional-challenge court-removal federal-jurisdiction in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigation removal sanction-fees sanctions vexatious-litigant Should-removal-from-state-court-to-federal-court-be-allowed-only-after-state-court-hearing
22-543 Altagracia Sanchez, et al. v. District of Columbia Office of the State Superintendent of Education, et al. District of Columbia Denied Amici (2)Response Waived administrative-agency administrative-law due-process economic-liberty individual-rights judicial-deference nondelegation-doctrine occupational-licensing regulatory-authority Does the Due Process Clause require complete and total judicial deference to these regulations?
22-5430 Derrick Lakeith Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights compassionate-release constitutional-interpretation due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-review sentencing state-courts Whether the lower courts abused their discretion and erred in light of Supreme Court precedent
22-5433 Tedd Wilson v. State Farm General Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process insurance insurance-dispute legal-standing procedural-challenge standing summary-judgment takings Whether the district court erred in granting summary judgment in favor of the defendant insurance company
22-5438 Winfred Scott Simpson v. North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP and ineffective assistance of counsel unlawful detention compulsory-process due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jencks-act miranda-rights right-to-present-defense self-defense sixth-amendment Violation of Petitioner's 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendment rights regarding suppressed evidence
22-5447 Christopher Schneider v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. California Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-case civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction legal-proceedings petition standing supreme-court takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
22-5457 J. Christopher Wreh v. Alex Gianotos, et al. Texas Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure due-process judicial-discretion motion-denial motion-practice rehearing-request standing supreme-court-procedure time-extension Whether the Supreme Court of Texas erred in denying the motion for extension of time to file a rehearing petition
22-5481 Helen Ferguson v. Gettel Management Group Eleventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 11th-circuit civil-procedure civil-rights due-process settlement standing Whether the petitioner's civil rights were violated and whether the petitioner is entitled to a settlement payout based on the supporting documents fi…
22-5487 Gabriel Paul Hall v. Texas Texas Denied IFP capital-murder criminal-procedure evidence-admission massiah-v-united-states penalty-phase right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-action state-agent Did the TCCA err in holding that the State upheld its 'affirmative obligation to not act in a manner that circumvents the [Sixth Amendment] protection…
22-5495 Micquel Shemario Thomas v. Michigan Michigan Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP brady-violation criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus michigan-supreme-court people-v-ginther post-conviction remand state-court supreme-court-review Whether the Michigan Supreme Court's denial of petitioner's delayed application for leave to appeal was contrary to the well-established law in People…
22-5503 Jose Vargas-Soto v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge direct-appeal due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus johnson-decision procedural-default residual-clause sentencing vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether the doctrine of procedural default bars a court from granting relief to a defendant whose conviction and sentence were predicated on an uncons…
22-5509 Jaime Luevano v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing takings Whether the Petitioners' First Amendment rights were violated by the government's actions
22-5526 William Paul Burch v. Homeward Residential Incorporated Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-iii-judge bankruptcy civil-procedure constitutional-procedure due-process federal-court judicial-discretion jurisdiction removal removal-jurisdiction standing state-court Is it a violation of the United States Constitution for a federal court to accept removal of a case from state court after thirty days or can it be ex…
22-5531 Patrick O. Christian v. Republican Party, et al. District of Columbia Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection majority-rule minority-protection minority-rights protected-class sexual-orientation When is the minority legally excluded, unprotected, deprived, and/or conspired-against?
22-5535 Eric Kamahele v. United States Tenth Circuit GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence force-clause hobbs-act intangible-property pattern-jury-instructions united-states-v-taylor Whether Hobbs Act robbery is categorically a 'crime of violence' under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)
22-5536 Mikal D. Mahdi v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP capital-mitigation ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation-into-mitigating-evidence mental-health-background mitigating-evidence post-conviction-review sixth-amendment traumatic-background trial-investigation Did the state post-conviction court misapply this Court's Sixth Amendment precedent when it held that Mikal Mahdi's trial attorneys reasonably ended t…
22-5538 Kepa Maumau v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence force-clause hobbs-act intangible-property statutory-interpretation Whether Hobbs Act robbery categorically qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)
22-5540 David Villegas Pereznegron v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-proceedings plain-error-review right-to-allocution sentencing sentencing-allocution substantial-rights Whether the plain and prejudicial denial of the right to allocution is an error that ordinarily warrants correction under the fourth prong of plain-er…
22-5543 Larry A. Anderson v. General Motors LLC, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim
22-5549 Emmanuel Maxime v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP 18-usc-924 28-usc-2255 cause-exception circuit-split constitutional-vagueness habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states procedural-default residual-clause Whether Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), establishes 'cause' to excuse procedurally defaulted 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claims that are predica…
22-5563 Noel Brown v. Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania Denied Relisted (2)IFP collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus plea-bargaining retroactivity right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Right to counsel
22-5576 Thoucharin Ruttanamongkongul v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility human-trafficking sentencing sentencing-guidelines sex-work sexual-offense statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether there was sufficient evidence to convict petitioner for conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking
22-5578 Cynthia S. Wills v. First Republic Bank Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-justice civil-procedure civil-rights due-process pleading-standards rules-enabling-act seventh-amendment standing supreme-court-review Whether a civil access-to-justice crisis exists
22-5667 Charles Stevens v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP aedpa batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky comparative-juror-analysis flowers-v-mississippi habeas-corpus-standard juror-similarity miller-el-v-dretke ninth-circuit-review peremptory-strike race-based-challenge racial-discrimination Whether a state court improperly expands or modifies the Batson standard by requiring a defendant to establish that a juror removed peremptorily is st…
22-5675 Larry Gapen v. Ohio Ohio Denied IFP capital-case constitutional-violations due-process extrinsic-evidence federal-constitutional-rights federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus juror-misconduct lex-talionis state-procedural-rules Whether state courts violate the federal constitution's right to due process by applying state procedural rules to prevent substantial claims of feder…
22-5731 Jonathan D. Carr v. Kansas Kansas Denied IFP capital-trial confrontation-clause criminal-procedure eligibility-phase selection-phase sentencing-phase sixth-amendment witness-confrontation Whether the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause secures an accused's right to confront witnesses against him throughout the sentencing phase of a c…
22-5736 Ernesto Salgado Martinez v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP buck-davis buck-v-davis discovery due-process extraordinary-circumstances gonzalez-crosby gonzalez-v-crosby napue-v-illinois napue-violation rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 Whether the district court abused its discretion by denying Martinez's Rule 60(b)(6) request to reopen the judgment in order to compel discovery
22-5756 Adelbert H. Warner, II v. K. Zook, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act constitutional-exception equal-protection habeas-corpus procedural-bars schlup-v-delo successive-application Does the Schlup v Delo, 513 US 298 (1995), actual innocence exception to procedural bars to habeas corpus relief serve as a gateway through the proced…
22-5758 Augustus H. Evans, Jr. v. Delaware Delaware Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-provisions due-process energy-policy environmental-regulation judicial-review legal-jurisdiction procedural-rules statutory-interpretation takings Does the Louisiana statute banning the sale of petrol-based motor vehicles violate the dormant Commerce Clause?
22-5766 Clifford Benjamin Kinkade v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their civil rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983
22-5785 Robert Alan Fratta v. Texas Texas Denied IFP attorney-neglect constitutional-compliance criminal-procedure grand-jury habeas-corpus indictment pro-se state-courts state-procedure supreme-court-precedent Whether state courts are required to accept and rule on the merits of claims presented in writs of habeas corpus by prisoners who dismiss their attorn…
22-5788 Martin Elliott Brooks v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split harmless-error judicial-discretion procedural-error rule-52 sentencing-courts sentencing-guidelines Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered harmless by the district court's assertion that the Guidelines would make no diff…
22-5798 Gregory K. Parsons v. Connie K. Copeland Parsons, et al. Texas Denied Relisted (2)IFP apportionment-claims disability-benefits due-process federal-preemption judicial-review military-powers state-court-jurisdiction state-jurisdiction takings veterans-benefits Whether a state court can override a VA decision denying an apportionment of a veteran's disability benefits
22-5808 Zachary Spada v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Pennsylvania Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-restrictions damages-claim due-process exercise-opportunities inmate-rights institutional-liability mootness mootness-doctrine standing Whether an inmate has a right to sue for denial of exercise and recreation opportunities during COVID-19 restrictions
22-5813 Katherine Elizabeth Langhorst v. Texas Texas Denied IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-search ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining search-and-seizure trial-procedure Was the evidence seized in this cause/case 'Fruits of The Poisonous Tree'?
22-5818 In Re Errol Victor, Sr. Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-privileges criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-selection racial-discrimination speedy-trial trial-rights Whether the Louisiana Supreme Court violated the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses by denying petitioner's request for a…
22-5819 Jose Efrain Vega v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default standard-of-review standing Whether the court of appeals properly denied Petitioner's certificate of appealability?
22-5822 Eric S. Ray v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus interstate-agreement-on-detainers-act interstate-extradition jurisdiction uniform-criminal-extradition-act Whether the violation of the Interstate Agreement on Detainers Act and the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act by state and local authorities provides a …
22-5824 Edward Tyrone Ridley v. Antoine Caldwell, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto federal-custody habeas-corpus illegal-detention judicial-review procedural-rights sex-offender-registration takings Whether the Georgia statute OCGA 42-1-12 violates the Due Process Clause and the Ex Post Facto Clause of the U.S. Constitution
22-5831 Charles Smith, Jr. v. Ronald King Fifth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights due-process free-speech government-compelled-speech standing takings Whether the First Amendment prohibits the government from compelling private entities to host and disseminate speech they disagree with
22-5832 Robert Joseph Schmitt v. Texas Texas Denied IFP concurrent-sentences criminal-sentencing cumulation due-process legislative-intent sentence-cumulation statutory-interpretation texas-law texas-legislature trial-court Was respondent denied due process of law when the trial court cumulated respondent's two twenty year sentences when the law in effect enacted by the T…
22-5839 Daniel Mason v. Colorado Colorado Denied IFP batson-challenge constitutional-law due-process equal-protection fair-trial jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination Whether the Colorado Supreme Court erred in finding no Equal Protection violation when the prosecution impermissibly used race as a reason for the per…
22-5840 Joseph Shook v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process evidence evidence-admission evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-selection life-sentence prejudice prejudicial-testimony right-to-remain-silent Whether a Petitioner who is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole is denied his constitutional rights
22-5843 Clifton William Batts v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-protections criminal-sentencing custody-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law habeas-corpus post-conviction standing state-procedure What is the timeline for Ordeg_ habesS Corpys, Dy deadina, Judge. Assigued to hobers on liberty Bie Enterest oF STARS PUY sone 'Ni Custady LN A\\nolab…
22-5845 Skiboky Stora v. New York State Board of Elections New York Denied IFP attorney-communication civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-communication judicial-conduct standing Did the communications between Respondents' Attorneys and the Chief Sweeny on the Judge's Personal Cell Phone violate the Due Process Clause of the Fo…
22-5850 Justin Michael Fenney v. Tracy Beltz, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied IFP 2253-statute 28-usc-2253 appellate-relief certificate-of-appealability conviction factual-support federal-court-review habeas-corpus judicial-discretion reasonable-jurists Whether a federal court may find that 'reasonable jurists would not disagree' about the denial of relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2253 where there is no fact…
22-5851 Siaosi Vanisi v. William Reubart, Acting Warden Nevada Denied IFP competency criminal-procedure double-jeopardy gross-negligence intent-requirement mental-competency oregon-v-kennedy self-representation Does gross negligence satisfy the intent requirement for double jeopardy?
22-5853 Steven Trapp v. Erica Huss, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights complaint-dismissal constitutional-violation covid-19 departmental-memorandum due-process pleadings sixth-circuit standing Should the Sixth Circuit Court's dismissal of petitioner's complaint for failure to state a claim be overturned?
22-5856 Tracy J. McGill v. Oklahoma Department of Corrections Oklahoma Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-indian-law federal-law habeas-corpus jurisdiction state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction unreasonable-determination Whether Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals' denial of petitioner's jurisdictional claim resulted in an unreasonable determination of the facts
22-5864 David Rodriguez v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-proceeding certificate-of-appealability circuit-court civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-review motion-denial standing Whether a single circuit court judge may deny a motion for certificate of appealability under Fed. R. App. P. 27(c)?
22-5868 Chad Alan Cappiello v. Texas Texas Denied IFP certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-ruling standing state-court statutory-interpretation supreme-court Whether the state courts are at liberty to review determinations of motions for unredactedness, or by asserting a timely filing, as an state due proce…
22-5871 Timothy Steel v. Dan Winkleski, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied IFP anders-v-california constitutional-error direct-appeal due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statute-of-limitations writ-of-certiorari Is a petitioner entitled to effective assistance of successor counsel to file a 2254 writ of habeas corpus despite the statute of limitations
22-5901 William Paul Burch v. Areya Holder Aurzada Fifth Circuit Dismissed IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-transparency corruption due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud judicial-ethics salaried-employees transparency Should a bankruptcy judge be obligated to grant due process to a debtor?
22-5903 L. Powers v. United States Postal Service Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights court-procedure due-process equal-protection equal-rights in-forma-pauperis indigent-rights judicial-discretion judicial-powers Was the appearance of dismissing Petitioner's in forma pauperis applications an abuse of judicial powers & law?
22-5908 Giles McGhee v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment in-re-winship ineffective-assistance jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Did the State fail to meet its burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. McGhee was guilty of two Counts of First Degree Murder?
22-5915 Charlesworth Rae v. Children's National Medical Center, et al. District of Columbia Denied IFP burden-of-proof burden-shifting civil-procedure employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas-test retaliation standard-of-review supervisor-misconduct vicarious-liability Whether the United States Court of Appeals incorrectly applied the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting test
22-5916 Randy Lee Lassiter, Jr. v. Virginia Virginia Denied IFP brady-disclosure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial Whether the government's failure to disclose exculpatory evidence violated the petitioner's due process rights and right to a fair trial
22-5922 Andrew S. Andersen v. Jennifer Shaffer, Executive Director, California Board of Parole Hearings Ninth Circuit Denied IFP beliefs-thoughts civil-rights due-process due-process-clause first-amendment free-speech government-benefit parole parole-regulations speech-suppression turner-test When a plaintiff alleges denial of a governmental benefit based on beliefs/thoughts and the benefit is conditioned on adopting government-approved bel…
22-5923 Michael L. Berry v. Illinois Illinois Denied IFP civil-rights due-process expert-testimony habeas-corpus identification standing Whether the District Court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion to be a Succeeding Post Conviction Petition citing Actual Innocence
22-5935 Devon Miller v. Superintendent, Shawangunk Correctional Facility Second Circuit Denied IFP confession-admissibility custodial-interrogation fifth-amendment miranda-v-arizona miranda-warnings police-interrogation police-interrogation-tactics self-incrimination two-step-interrogation voluntariness Whether the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination applies during custodial interrogation
22-5936 Demetrius Troy Bradley v. Michigan Michigan Denied IFP acquitted-conduct constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-trial-rights sentencing sentencing-discretion sixth-amendment Do the jury-trial and due process guarantees of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit judges from considering, at sentencing in a criminal case…
22-5937 Prince Jones v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-power due-process government-accountability judicial-jurisdiction standing statutory-jurisdiction Can D.C. Superior Court Judges exercise Statutory Jurisdiction under the color of Article III judicial Power, when Article III does not provide a Stat…
22-5941 Albert L. Watson v. Stu Sherman, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process en-banc-hearing ninth-circuit penal-code procedural-rules reasoned-opinion sixth-amendment state-law state-penal-code Was the district court's use of state penal code justifying violation of sixth amendment correct
22-5943 Isaiah Tyler v. Kentucky Department of Corrections Kentucky Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest violent-offender-statute Do Kentucky's violent offender statute create a liberty interest protected by due process?
22-5945 Alex Adams v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings Whether the legal issues being raised
22-5946 Dawud Canaan Sturrup Gabriel v. Windy Hill Foliage Incorporated Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-court civil-rights due-process eeoc eeoc-discrimination judicial-proceedings judicial-review right-to-sue standing supervisory-authority Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings
22-5952 Randell Joseph Redmond v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process judicial-procedure legal-interpretation standard-of-review standing takings Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that the Firearms Owners' Protection Act (FOPA) does not preempt state laws prohibiting…
22-5953 Robert Lee Swinton v. New York New York Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-of-right appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal procedural-default right-to-appeal Whether counsel can fail to file a Notice of Appeal after a defendant has shown a desire to appeal
22-5955 Christopher Wade v. Florida Florida Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights counsel-rights due-process effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel petitioner-claims trial-court Did the petitioner's 14th Amendment rights to effective assistance of counsel under the U.S. Constitution and 6th Amendment due process rights under t…
22-5956 Charles Wallace v. Louisiana Louisiana Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-trial jury-unanimity retroactivity state-constitution state-jurisdiction Whether non-unanimous jury instructions are constitutional
22-5959 William A. White v. United States, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-review civil-rights court-order document-entry due-process false-statements judicial-discretion procedural-standards sanctions standing Did the Seventh Circuit err in upholding two orders issued by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois barring the petit…
22-5966 Malachi Henessey Rodriguez v. Minnesota Minnesota Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof character-evidence civil-rights coercion consent constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission reasonable-doubt The state failure to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the petitioner used coercion
22-5967 Hunter Halver Brown v. Alabama Alabama Denied IFP covid-19 covid-restrictions criminal-procedure due-process evidence interstate-agreement-on-detainers restitution speedy-trial trial-timeline whether-interstate-agreement-on-detainers-act-was-violated
22-5969 Thomas Deptula v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law-conflict chesser-v-state civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court-appeal due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-brief sexual-predator sexual-predator-designation torres-v-oquinn Whether the Florida Second District Court of Appeal erred in denying the petitioner's request for removal of the sexual predator designation
22-5973 Raymond J. Scott v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-violation direct-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment Can ineffectiveness or incompetence of counsel on direct review result in a Sixth Amendment violation?
22-5974 Draco Aurum Rat v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression evidentiary-issues fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony Whether a prosecutor who misrepresents witness testimony, asks false leading questions, and solicits false testimony has committed a fundamental error…
22-5975 Donnie Earl Phillips, Jr. v. Texas Texas Denied IFP civil-rights compensation constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fundamental-rights judicial-review legal-proceedings malicious-prosecution speedy-trial wrongful-imprisonment Does Fundamental Error, Plain Error, and Constitutional Error all coincide when depriving a person of a final judgment?
22-5984 Kenneth Wilbert Brown v. Brad Adams, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-communication civil-procedure court-delays diligence due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances legal-diligence pandemic-impact related-cases How can a defendant be deemed not to have 'Been pursuing his rights dilligently,' when he is actively litigating 3 cases simultaneously that are all i…
22-5994 Kevin Leon Lucien v. Texas Texas Denied IFP criminal-procedure duty-to-investigate ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mitigating-evidence punishment standard-of-review trial-counsel voluntary-intoxication Was trial counsel ineffective for failing to investigate and present evidence of voluntary intoxication as mitigating evidence at punishment?
22-5995 Collucci J. Myers v. Clayton County Board of Commissioners, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-455 bias-complaint civil-discrimination civil-procedure civil-rights default-judgment due-process judicial-recusal notice-of-lawsuit pro-se-litigation procedural-standards standing Appropriate-standard-for-recusal-of-judges
22-5999 Enrique M. Flores-Vazquez v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law appeals-process due-process evidence evidence-review judicial-mandate judicial-review veterans-affairs Authority-to-disregard-mandates
22-6000 Norman Clement v. Drug Enforcement Administration District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 21-cfr-1306.04(a) administrative-deference controlled-substances corresponding-responsibility dea-registration medical-purpose pharmacy-responsibility prescription-legitimacy Whether a pharmacy violates its corresponding responsibility under 21 C.F.R. § 1306.04(a) by being required to operate beyond licensing requirement an…
22-6003 Whistleblower 7107-16W v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights confidential-sources due-process informant irs-informant-award judicial-review open-courts open-courts-doctrine plausibility-standard spending-clause whistleblower whistleblower-anonymity Whether the federal courts retain discretion to deny consideration of relevant facts, evidence, and legal issues when reviewing the anonymity and conf…
22-6007 Jerry Word v. John Christiansen, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court ineffective-assistance-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct remand search-and-seizure standing Whether lower courts may reject a claim of fraud upon the court without addressing the issue or remanding the case
22-6009 David Matthew Carter v. South Carolina South Carolina Denied IFP civil-procedure confrontation-clause courtroom-removal Crawford-v-Washington criminal-procedure due-process Maryland-v-Craig sixth-amendment trial-rights witness-testimony Sixth-Amendment-right-to-be-present
22-6010 Christopher Lamont Penn v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto retroactivity Whether the petitioner's conviction was unconstitutional due to a change in the law during the appeals process
22-6015 Jeffrey G. Hutchinson v. Florida Florida Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process florida-jurisprudence florida-supreme-court giglio-precedent giglio-v-united-states pleading-requirements pleading-standards procedural-specificity supreme-court-review Whether the Florida Supreme Court contravened Giglio v. United States and procedural due process by requiring heightened specificity in pleading?
22-6016 Sheila Gray v. City of Detroit, Michigan Sixth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure court-discretion judicial-error jury-verdict overturning-verdict standard-of-review substantial-evidence trial-evidence trial-procedure weight-of-evidence witness-testimony Whether Appellant presents substantial evidence that the unanimous jury verdict goes against the great weight of the evidence presented at trial and s…
22-6018 David L. Hering v. Patti Wachtendorf, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-trial burden-of-proof criminal-defense due-process ineffective-assistance insanity-defense sixth-amendment When using insanity as a tool in the defense of a criminal defendant who plead not guilty and is strongly asserting their innocence. Does defense coun…
22-6019 Richard Lee Green v. Dinh Hoang Phuong Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitral-award federal-jurisdiction foreign-arbitration international-forum-shopping jurisdiction-abstention new-york-convention res-judicata younger-abstention younger-doctrine Whether the federal court improperly abstained from confirming a foreign arbitral award under the Younger doctrine
22-6020 John M. Esposito v. Florida Florida Denied IFP citizens-rights civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process federalism legal-challenge preemption statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio void-statute Whether the State of Florida is violating the United States Constitution by prosecuting and convicting U.S. citizens under § 794.011, Florida Statutes…
22-6026 Robert C. Stryker v. Wisconsin Wisconsin Denied Response WaivedIFP computer-evidence computer-files criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment search-and-seizure social-worker-patient-privilege social-worker-privilege state-court-review warrantless-search Were the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights violated when the contents of computer files held in evidence against him were revealed in warrantless s…
22-6028 John Alan Sakon v. James N. Sakonchick, et al. Connecticut Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure court-settlement court-settlement-agreement due-process res-judicata statutory-interpretation statutory-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction Did Superior Court Judge Aurigemma err in not finding subject matter jurisdiction to enforce a Court Settlement Agreement
22-6030 In Re Jason Paul Maple Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-trial-error due-process free-speech jurisdictional-power manifest-disregard pro-se-litigant standing third-circuit-court Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit acted in excess of its jurisdictional power
22-6032 Nicholas Sterling Little v. Ronald Haynes, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-defendant other-suspect other-suspect-evidence person-a person-b post-conviction post-conviction-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct suppressed-evidence Does a criminal defendant's constitutional rights violate if prosecutors use 'other-suspect' evidence to convict 'person-a' of a crime 'person-b' is a…
22-6033 Daniel A. Schillinger v. Josh Kiley, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied IFP allow complaint amendment and exclude witnesses violates a prisoner's due p administrative-procedure civil-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process institutional-safety prison prison-disciplinary-proceedings witness witness-testimony Whether the DOC prison failed to provide the petitioner with a copy of the video tape of the assault, whether the petitioner was denied the opportunit…
22-6034 Francis Stock v. Chanelle Braswell, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-filing notice notice-of-appeal prisoner-rights service-of-process standing Whether a prisoner's notice of appeal was timely filed when he did not receive notice of the district court's dismissal order within 21 days
22-6035 Michael Andra Reed, aka Mychal Andra Reed v. California California Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indigent-litigants indigent-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant time-bar time-limits Does the state of California criminal appeal time limit (time bar) violate the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment equal protection clause pertaining t…
22-6041 David Williams, III v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 congressional-intent conviction-review eighth-amendment equitable-tolling fifth-amendment government-misconduct section-2255 whether-defendant's-conviction-and-sentence-for-nonexistent-crimes-violates-constitution
22-6042 Ryan Hayes v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process equal-protection first-circuit sentencing Whether the First Circuit erred in affirming the denial of a role reduction and in failing to find a violation of due process and equal protection, ba…
22-6043 Jose Rene Cante-Dondiego 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-reconsideration 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…
22-6044 Jerlard Derek Rembert v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 1983 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment federal-jurisdiction heck-doctrine section-1983 statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the plaintiff's 1983 civil-rights complaint for failure to show cause as to why the court should not dismi…
22-6045 Douglas Cornell Jackson v. Kristopher Taskila, Warden Sixth Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus prisoner-rights Whether 28 U.S.C. 2241 provides federal courts of appeals substitute jurisdiction over the issues presented under the Due Process Clause
22-6046 Terrioues Owney v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights cooperating-witness due-process late-disclosure materiality materiality-standard new-trial witness-credibility Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit deny Owney's right to constitutional due process by applying an erroneous standard in ass…
22-6050 Jane Doe v. City of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process federal-procedure judicial-misconduct legal-filing procedural-due-process statutory-law supreme-court-precedents Whether the federal court of appeals should be allowed to criminally dismiss the strikingly meritorious appeal
22-6053 Charles Skaggs, Jr. v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP border-search border-searches electronic-device electronic-devices fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion warrant-requirement warrantless-search Does the Fourth Amendment require warrants for border searches of electronic devices?
22-6059 Maurice Oparaji v. Municipal Credit Union Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-procedure de-novo-review due-process electronic-fund-transfer-act rule-12(b)(6) rule-12b6 standing summary-judgment supplemental-jurisdiction Whether the district court erred in dismissing Oparaji's complaint
22-6061 Kyle Watkins v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights cumulative-effect due-process first-degree-murder habeas habeas-corpus law-enforcement law-enforcement-practices prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a Court can construe Brady's prejudice prong so strictly that it becomes, in effect, an automatic means of excusing unconstitutional law enfor…
22-6062 Thomas Walter Gillen v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-riot-act circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-appellate-courts first-amendment free-speech severability statutory-interpretation Whether the difference of opinion between the Fourth Circuit and the Ninth Circuit as to the constitutionality of 'organize' within the context of the…
22-6063 Naomi Michelle Gutierrez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-circuit criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process fifth-circuit firearm-enhancement presumption sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of applying a tools-of-the-trade presumption to the firearm enhancement of sentencing guidelines §2D1.1(b)(1) vio…
22-6064 Laura Fettig v. Hilton Garden Inns Management, LLC, et al. California Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights commercial-vehicle contract-preemption due-process federal-motor-carrier-safety-act legal-error preemption rule-60b1 tort-liability tort-negligence Whether the court of appeals correctly held that a contract claim preempts a tort cause of action for recovery from the negligence of a federally regi…
22-6065 Samirkumar J. Shah v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-process conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure disqualification disqualification-motion due-process evidentiary-hearing prosecutorial-ethics prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Petitioner was afforded a meaningful and fair adversarial process when the district court denied his motion to disqualify the United State…
22-6067 Yazan Al-Madani v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review enterprise fraud hobbs-act mens-rea public-official rico rico-act sentencing-error victim Whether an entity can be both an 'enterprise' and a 'victim' under RICO
22-6072 Randy Belcher v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act civil-rights criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction physical-force sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether the petitioner's attempted use or threatened use of physical force against the person of another, without the use of physical force, is suffic…
22-6073 Lindsey Chow v. Ma Leyba, et al. California Denied Response WaivedIFP bodily-rights civil-rights due-process equal-protection euthanasia fourteenth-amendment medical-autonomy medicare survivorship-rights Did the Supreme Court of California violate murder victim Henry Chow's and his children's Fourteenth Amendment rights
22-6075 Raheem Davis, aka Raheen Davis v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-data constitutional-law fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
22-6078 James Wesley Scott v. Jacqueline Banks Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-process mississippi post-conviction-relief speedy-trial supreme-court-review Should the Barker v. Wingo four-factor test for determining speedy trial violations be overruled and replaced with a more precise method?
22-6080 James David Wren v. Minnesota Minnesota Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit civil-procedure declaration financial-status in-forma-pauperis poverty Whether the petitioner is entitled to proceed in forma pauperis
22-6081 Ahmed Q. v. Farideh P. New York Denied Response WaivedIFP None
22-6083 Aaron Jay Pierce v. Utah Utah Denied Response WaivedIFP coercion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-collection impeachment interrogation-tactics law-enforcement police-interrogation right-to-counsel self-incrimination Whether statements obtained during a custodial police interrogation in violation of the Constitution, law, and state law should be suppressed by the d…
22-6084 Jerry Bonton v. David R. Harris, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech medical-privacy mental-health-history standing trial-rights Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's dismissal of petitioner's claims alleging vio…
22-6085 Curtis Neville v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-materiality brady-v-maryland cooperating-witness credibility criminal-evidence due-process due-process-violation kyles-v-whitley material-evidence prosecutorial-disclosure witness-credibility Is an incentivized cooperating witness's letter material under Brady v. Maryland and Kyles v. Whitley?
22-6086 Dale McCoy v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights covid-19 covid-19-quarantine due-process equitable-tolling federal-bureau-of-prisons fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment section-2255 Whether the unforeseen and unexpected quarantining of the Petitioner, by the Federal Bureau of Prisons due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, justifies 'Equita…
22-6087 Donnell LaShon Peele v. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
22-6089 Heeralall Puran v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process equitable-tolling federal-procedure habeas-corpus math-mistake time-limitation untimely-petition Whether Petitioner Puran Is Entitled to a Certificate of Appealability on the Question Whether Equitable Tolling Should Apply to Permit an Untimely Ha…
22-6090 Shirley Marie Trent v. Virginia Commonwealth University Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bodily-autonomy civil-rights due-process government-overreach informed-consent medical-privacy Whether the government's policy of denying healthcare access to individuals who refuse to use government-approved medical devices violates their const…
22-6092 Joshua Lewis v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) 3553a-factors criminal-history departures guidelines-departure procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-4a1.3 upward-variance Whether a district court can vary upward from the advisory sentencing range under the factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) based on the inadequacy of a defe…
22-6094 William Milton v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing descamps-v-united-states due-process mathis-v-united-states prior-conviction-enhancement retroactivity sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent Are the Sixth Amendment holdings of Descamps v. United States, 570 U.S. 254 (2013) and Mathis v. United States, 579 U.S. 500 (2016) fully retroactive
22-6095 Owen Garth Hinkson v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-felony appellate-waiver constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process immigration immigration-law ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-enhancement vacated-conviction Whether the district court can sentence Mr. Owen Garth Hinkson to a statute of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(2), 20 years imprisonment when his 1987 Massachusett…
22-6097 Marshall Leon Watkins v. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
22-6102 Samuel Turner v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bureau-of-prisons civil-procedure court-deadline covid-19-lockdown due-process equity excusable-neglect judicial-discretion pandemic prisoner-rights whether-certiorari-should-be-granted
22-6103 Serdar Tatar v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582-c-1-a abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence brady-claims concepcion-v-united-states evidentiary-hearing judicial-error legal-standard motion-for-relief rule-60 rule-60-b Whether the district court's denial of Rule 60(b) motion was an abuse of discretion
22-6104 Esteban Parra-Reyes v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-court-review compassionate-release criminal-justice federal-sentencing judicial-discretion ninth-circuit prisoner-rights sentencing summary-affirmance Whether the Denial of Esteban Para Reyes's Motion for Compassionate Release Was an Abuse of Discretion?
22-6105 Eric Malmstrom v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-precedent en-banc federal-courts judicial-review stare-decisis Must a federal court of appeals adhere to the principle of stare decisis and abide by prior circuit precedent absent an intervening decision from this…
22-6106 David Shane Paquette v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver circuit-split contract-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process plea-agreement Whether an appeal-waiver provision in a plea agreement is enforceable when the agreement provides the defendant with no benefit
22-6107 Jarmal Williamson v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky circuit-split equal-protection flowers-v-mississippi jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination Does Batson v. Kentucky and its progeny instruct courts to consider repeated misstatements of the record by a prosecutor as suggestive of pretext when…
22-6108 Jose Luis Ramirez, Jr., aka Zachary Matthew Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-conviction criminal-procedure fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel money-laundering plea-agreement plea-bargaining securities-fraud Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner's meritorious appeal of his conviction of securit…
22-6110 Luis David Huerta-Carranza v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process immigration-court immigration-proceedings jurisdiction notice-to-appear removal-order statutory-interpretation Whether a defective notice to appear that omits the statutorily required time-and-place information fails to confer jurisdiction on the immigration co…
22-6114 Phillip Scott Grigalanz v. Kristi Lynn Grigalanz Indiana Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy due-process felony fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment standing Should respondent benefit from a conspiracy to commit a felony crime?
22-6117 Tracy Lamont Miles v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-question sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the term 'controlled substance' from the 'controlled substance offense' definition in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) is limited to substances that are fe…
22-6120 In Re Olayinka Famofo-Idowu Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights cohen-v-beneficial collateral-order-doctrine due-process fraud-allegations fraud-upon-court standing supreme-court-discretion writ-of-prohibition Whether appeals by substituting finality for ripeness in a proceeding implicating fraud upon the court by the government and erstwhile defense counsel…
22-6124 Jason Baxter v. Harold D. Graham, Superintendent, Auburn Correctional Facility Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process right-to-counsel right-to-public-trial Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated in the criminal proceedings against him
22-6125 Carlos Bladimir Rodriguez-Juarez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-6126 Jeffrey Salt v. Waterkeeper Alliance, Inc. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-contempt civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment intellectual-property non-party non-party-injunction trademark trademark-dispute Did Jeffrey Salt's Fifth Amendment due process rights violate when the District Court ruled he was bound by an injunction and subject to civil contemp…
22-6128 Christopher Erwin v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split cooperation-agreement downward-departure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-colloquy section-2255-motion sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum Did the Circuit Court err in denying Petitioner's motion for ineffective-assistance-of-counsel without a hearing?
22-6132 Michael Dominick Mencher v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing first-degree-murder sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether Florida's First-Degree Premeditated Murder Statute is categorically a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C.§ 924(C)?
22-6134 Eugene Riley III v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment de-facto-life-sentence due-process juvenile-justice juvenile-offenders miller-v-alabama mitigating-factors sentencing-guidelines Did the State Court violate the U.S. Constitution when it imposed a 32 year sentence when it disregarded the mitigating factors laid out in Miller v. …
22-6135 Monzell Harding v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion evidence extrinsic-evidence rico rico-conspiracy rule-404(b) rule-404b trial-error uncharged-crimes Was the district court required by JHuddleston v. United States, 485 U.S. 681 (1988) and Rule 404(b) to cure the reversible trial error that resulted …
22-6136 Juan Martin Figueroa v. W. L. Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation compulsory-process due-process ethical-standards fair-trial habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony whether-the-prosecutor-deprived-figueroa-of-due-process-compulsory-process-and-a-fair-trial
22-6137 Bryan Thornton v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court first-step-act intervening-legal-developments legal-developments retroactivity section-404(b) sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a district court must or may consider intervening legal developments when deciding to impose a reduced sentence under the First Step Act of 20…
22-6138 Michael Lindell Teasley v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process eighth-circuit equal-protection judicial-discretion non-violent-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, South on Piswier of Iowa, abused its discretion by violating the Cera Feendeg guidelines, which t…
22-6141 Eric Lamont Wade v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion concepcion-ruling concepcion-v-united-states criminal-justice-reform district-court-discretion due-process first-step-act section-404(c) sentence-reduction sentencing Whether the district court abused its discretion by failing to comply with Section 404 (c) of the First Step Act of 2018
22-6143 Blake Sandlain v. C. Maruka, Warden Fourth Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP compelled-speech content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech government-regulation private-entities Whether the First Amendment prohibits the government from compelling private entities to host and disseminate speech they disagree with
22-6151 Demon Reese v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-statute felon-in-possession felon-rights firearm-possession statutory-interpretation Whether Congress exceeded its authority in enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g))
22-6153 Vincent Johnson v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell procedural-due-process sixth-circuit supreme-court-review What is the correct mechanism and procedure to present a COA violation made by a Circuit court to the appellate court after Certiorari denial?
22-6155 Ryan McGuire v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-trial cross-examination due-process fair-trial impeachment impeachment-evidence law-enforcement Does a trial court's ruling excluding evidence at trial violate a criminal defendant's right to due process, including the rights to confront and exam…
22-6156 Peter Ivan McNeal v. Dean Borders, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel memory-expert taint-expert trial-counsel Whether the prosecution presented sufficient evidence to sustain the conviction
22-6160 Wayland Lynn Dilts v. Mike Brown, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-standard constitutional-violation courtroom-closure due-process public-trial public-trial-right sixth-amendment sixth-circuit weaver-v-massachusetts witness-testimony Whether the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit improperly applied Weaver v. Massachusetts and AEDPA, and whether the Michigan trial court violated…
22-6161 Melvin Lavon Shields v. Kansas Kansas Denied Response WaivedIFP bad-faith criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process government-delay lovasco-v-united-states marion-v-united-states pre-charging-delay prejudice state-v-shields Whether a criminal defendant who has established prejudice from the government's pre-charging delay must show that delay was the result of the governm…
22-6166 Raymond Mendez v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-review criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-procedure sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervisory-power Whether the Ninth Circuit has sanctioned serial departures by the district court from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings
22-6167 Eber Gramajo v. Mark Nooth, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-discovery habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence pinholster-standard shaken-baby-syndrome Can reasonable jurists disagree whether a federal subpoena request for medical evidence, barred in state court because petitioner had not proven that …
22-6168 Jose Santos Perez-Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure judicial-precedent legal-review precedent-overturning recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998)
22-6169 Shane Alan Nault v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment fourth-amendment investigatory-stop rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states search-and-seizure seizure-scope terry-stop traffic-stop Whether seizing an individual seated in a parked car in a private parking lot should be analyzed in the context of a 'traffic stop' under Rodriguez, o…
22-6172 Terry L. Benson v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-identity-theft civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process frcp identity-theft jury-of-peers personal-jurisdiction rule-60b writ-of-mandamus Whether the lower courts erred in affirming the conviction for aggravated identity theft, in violation of the petitioner's civil-rights, due-process, …
22-6177 Sanders McDaniel Carter v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa brady-vs-maryland certificate-of-appealability federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus rule-60 Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit impose an improper and unduly burdensome Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard
22-6178 Jason Baxter v. Joseph E. Bradley Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-regulations jurisdictional-dispute notice rules standing state-rights supreme-court-review Whether the rules of notice denied due process of law under the Fourteenth Amendment?
22-6180 Alvaro Noe Mendoza-Valencia v. Oregon Oregon Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-relationship criminal-trial due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance jury-trial right-to-counsel sixth-amendment substitution-counsel Can a state trial court deny a criminal defendant's request for substitution counsel without any reasonable inquiry into trial counsel's performance, …
22-6181 Willie Speed v. Douglas Fender, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-conflict conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment whether-an-attorney's-conflict-of-interest-deprived-petitioner-of-his-rights-under-the-sixth-and-fourteenth-amendments-to-effective-assistance-and-due…
22-6184 Jowarski Russell Nedd v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-jurisdiction due-process fact-finding federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-default statute-of-limitations tolling Whether the decisions of the courts below ought to be summarily reversed and the case remanded to the court of appeals with instructions to remand the…
22-6185 Brent William Bogseth v. James R. Schiebner, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus jury-verdict sixth-circuit unreasonable-evidence Was the District Court's order denying petitioner's §2254 petition legal?
22-6189 Jessie Jackson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings due-process fair-trial hypoglycemia medical-condition mental-competence Whether the onset of Diabetic Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) in a criminal defendant constitutes incompetence and violates due process, when the defen…
22-6192 Dennis Dean Neff v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review different-outcome judicial-discretion jury-instruction jury-instruction-error plain-error prejudice reasonable-probability trial trial-procedure unpreserved-claims Whether an appellant must show a 'reasonable probability' of a different outcome at trial to demonstrate prejudice from unpreserved claims of jury ins…
22-6194 Jordan Huff v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting criminal-liability hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery pinkerton-liability predicate-offense statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force Where 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) requires proof of active participation and prior knowledge for aiding and abetting, does Pinkerton liability have a role in s…
22-6199 In Re Cornell White Denied IFP constitutional-violation eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-supreme-court-rule procedural-default procedural-rule prosecutorial-misconduct second-petition Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in denying the petitioner's application for leave to file a second habeas petition
22-6201 In Re Arthur James Lomax Denied IFP 14th-amendment bill-of-rights civil-rights due-process federalism grand-jury indictment state-constitution statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction uniformity-of-laws Whether the Colorado Constitution's requirement that all laws be enacted by the General Assembly is satisfied by the omission of the enacting clause f…
22-6202 Peter Gakuba v. Illinois Prisoner Review Board Illinois Dismissed Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule grand-jury grand-jury-indictment jurisdiction jurisdictional-error privacy-protection statutory-rape video-privacy-protection-act void-judgment vppa-violation Gakuba's criminal indictment was void due to violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act
22-6203 Peter Gakuba v. Rachel Dodd Seventh Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2254 civil-procedure due-process habeas habeas-corpus judicial-bias pro-se-petition structural-error issues-being-raised
22-6207 Anika George v. Shelbie Smith, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel and due process violations
22-6209 Mayeli Molina v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial dual-role-witnesses due-process expert-testimony jury-instructions sentencing sentencing-standards substantial-rights witness-testimony Whether Molina's substantial rights were affected by dual-role testimony
22-6210 Aaron Michael Crick v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing downward-variance fourth-amendment fourth-circuit judicial-discretion motion-denial reversible-error sentencing Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by denying Mr. Crick's meritorious argument that the district court committed reversible error by de…
22-6211 In Re Patricia Ann Solomon Denied IFP civil-rights conspiracy conspiracy-charge controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution heck-v-humphrey legitimate-purpose medical-prescription prescribing-authority prescription-drugs Can Ms. Patricia Solomon, a physician assistant who never prescribed any drug, be convicted under 21 U.S.C. §846 in the Eastern District of Kentucky L…
22-6213 In Re Mark Stinson Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appeals case-assignment civil-procedure due-process judicial-procedure procedural-error right-to-counsel rights-to-counsel sixth-circuit standing Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit err by denying Mark Stinson due process and violating his right to counsel?
22-6214 Timothy Robert Gallion v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fourth-circuit sentence-credit sentencing-credit sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines supervised-release Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by dismissing Mr. Gallion's meritorious argument that the district court committed reversible error …
22-6216 Jonny Shineflew v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure guideline-offense integrated-agreement plea-agreement prosecutor prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Whether an integrated plea agreement allows the prosecutor to go outside that agreement and urge a sentencing enhancement not integrated into the Agre…
22-6217 Steven Wayne Keefe v. Montana Montana Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP adequate-defense ake-v-oklahoma constitutional-rights due-process expert-assistance juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing mental-health mental-health-expert miller-v-alabama sentencing Whether the 'basic tools of an adequate defense' include expert assistance in 'evaluation, preparation, and presentation' of a defense at sentencing p…
22-6218 Carlos Brito-Brito v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment 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…
22-6220 Martin Robert Moncada-Aguirre v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing supreme-court-precedent 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…
22-6221 Oscar J. Martinez-Hernandez v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether former prosecutor's defense of defendant under same indictments violates 18 U.S.C. § 207 and defendant's constitutional rights
22-6225 Jerome Kieffer v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-procedure criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment imprisonment-rights religious-land-use rluipa sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness Whether the unconstitutionally vague language struck down by the Court in 18 U.S.C. 1030 applies to 18 U.S.C. 2232(a)(1)
22-6228 Giovanny Sanchez-Juarez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-procedure immigration-law indictment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States was wrongly decided
22-6229 In Re Steven B. Turner Denied IFP constitutional-violation due-process federal-claim federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus remedy remedy-unavailable state-prisoner supreme-court-holding Whether application of 28 U.S.C. 2244(b)(1) and (2) violates U.S. Const. Art. I, Sec. 9, cl. 2
22-6231 William Dustin Poole v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment life-without-parole non-homicide-offense sentencing Whether a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on an eighteen-year-old defendant convicted of a non-homicide offense violat…
22-6233 Clifton B. Mays v. Kenneth Black, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts standing why-were-cox-hogan-county-filers-for-poe-mays-denied-on-sham-legal-process
22-6238 David N. Firewalker-Fields v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court civil-procedure constitutional-review district-court due-process evidence first-amendment procedural-default withholding-evidence Did the District Court and Court of Appeals err in not granting a certificate of appealability due to a procedural default caused by the Circuit Court…
22-6242 William Burke v. Jerry Jefferson, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa-deference antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act cumulative-errors due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions jury-trial-rights right-to-jury-trial strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Did the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals fail to adhere to the Strickland-standard-of-review
22-6244 LeeAnn Morgan v. Regents of the University of California, et al. California Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights fraud-concealment jury-trial medical-battery private-party seventh-amendment state-funded-medical-institution writ-of-error-coram-nobis Does the 7th Amendment provide for a jury trial in civil private matters between a private party and a state-funded medical institution?
22-6246 Antonio Osorio-Mendez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-authority due-process federal-sentencing judicial-authority judicial-delegation probation-officer sentencing-commission separation-of-powers supervised-release Does Standard Condition 12 unconstitutionally delegate judicial authority to the probation officer?
22-6247 Denis Amilcar Munguia-Portales v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial legal-challenge precedent sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-6249 Ruben James Rios v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure jurisdiction motion-to-reopen notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-deficiency Whether a pro se litigant's 'Notice of Appeal' constitutes a liberally-construed 'Motion to Reopen Time to File' as well as a 'Notice of Appeal
22-6250 Matthew James Dury v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP alias citizenship-status civil-rights criminal-procedure deportation due-process immigration immigration-law legal-residency naturalization permanent-residency Whether a foreign-born defendant can be ordered to violate U.S. laws
22-6253 Michael J. Moller, aka Michael Robinson v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waiver certiorari criminal-procedure district-court due-process paycheck-protection-program plea-bargaining sentencing sophisticated-means-enhancement standard-of-review Should certiorari be granted to address the enforceability of an appellate waiver where the District Court's entire inquiry consisted of a single ques…
22-6254 Aaron Michael Murray v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartiality-standard judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal media-bias media-coverage recusal Whether a criminal defendant's due process right to a fair trial is violated when numerous media reports raise reasonable questions about a district c…
22-6255 Deonte Courtez Gates v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP blakely-v-washington circuit-court-conflict constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment federal-law juvenile-defendant relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines Whether the relevant conduct sentencing guideline is unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment as applied to conduct committed by a juvenile defenda…
22-6257 Kenneth Ray Borders v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment health-conditions judicial-misconduct procedural-error standing Should this court grant the writ where the lower court erred in violation of the eighth-amendment in denying compassionate-release when the lower cour…
22-6258 Rondale Young v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP assimilated-crimes assimilative-crimes-act criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment houston-v-moore separate-sovereign-doctrine Whether a defendant previously acquitted of murder under a state statute can be tried for the same murder under the same state statute pursuant to a f…
22-6259 Eric Bruce Fowler v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-arrest cross-deputization due-process federal-approval indian-law indian-reservation jurisdiction law-enforcement state-jurisdiction territorial-sovereignty Did the state trooper have jurisdiction to arrest Mr. Fowler, an Indian, within his reservation boundaries?
22-6262 Babubhai Patel v. T. J. Watson, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-discretion due-process habeas-corpus martinez-v-ryan newly-discovered-evidence procedural-default procedural-due-process rosemond-v-united-states savings-clause statutory-interpretation Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals abused its discretion
22-6265 Sachin Aji Bhaskar v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP cares-act constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment remote-sentencing statutory-authority structural-error What is required under the CARES Act for a remote sentencing to comport with a defendant's Fifth Amendment right to due process under the constitution…
22-6266 Earl Moore v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender civil-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act recidivism sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the defendant's arrest for resisting arrest constitutes a 'crime of violence' under federal sentencing guidelines
22-6267 Mack Doak v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction indictment indictment-requirements interstate-commerce interstate-travel sexual-offense statutory-interpretation What connection must exist between the defendant's travel and the unlawful sexual act or sexual activity to support the exercise of federal jurisdicti…
22-6274 John C. Killingbeck v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights content-provider criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process free-speech habeas-corpus internet-immunity internet-service-provider-liability section-230 standing Whether the government and courts have acted within their constitutional authority in prosecuting and denying relief to an individual convicted of dow…
22-6277 Paul E. Pavulak v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-bar rule-60 rule-60(d)(3) section-2255 successive-petition When a petitioner challenges a procedural bar in his 2255 which based on a fraud on the court, may a District Court Judge dismiss this motion as a Suc…
22-6310 Terence Sandy McCray v. Michael Capra, Superintendent, Sing Sing Correctional Facility Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure due-process evidence-disclosure pennsylvania-v-ritchie psychiatric-records second-circuit-court-of-appeals When a trial court reviews complainant's psychiatric records for Brady material, must it disclose all records that may affect the outcome, or can it r…
22-6332 In Re James Vandivere Denied IFP adam-walsh-act civil-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus necessary-and-proper-clause pro-se-petition Question not identified
22-6369 In Re Tiyon T. Brown-Bey Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-disenfranchisement due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus racial-discrimination sovereign-immunity standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional and unlawful claims regarding the status of 'Moors' or 'Blacks' as 'non-citizens' or 'slaves' should be addres…
22-79 Kimberly Medders v. Social Security Administration Eleventh Circuit Denied None
22-94 Robert Alan Fratta v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-grounds procedural-default rule-60(b) rule-60b Must a habeas petitioner obtain a certificate of appealability to appeal the denial of a Rule 60(b) motion on jurisdictional grounds?
22-97 Owl Creek Asia I, L.P., et al. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit Denied collins-v-yellen conservatorship corporate-ownership federal-claims federal-housing-finance-agency government-action net-worth-sweep private-shareholders property-interest shareholders-rights takings takings-clause Whether private shareholders have a direct, personal interest in challenging a taking of their rights incident to share ownership
22-98 Joseph Cacciapalle v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit Denied dividend-appropriation fannie-mae federal-circuit freddie-mac government-taking property-rights shareholder-interests shareholder-rights takings takings-clause Did the Federal Circuit err in barring as 'substantively derivative' the claims of private shareholders of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for the Taking o…
22-99 Andrew T. Barrett v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit Denied circuit-split due-process fannie-mae fifth-amendment freddie-mac government-expropriation government-taking net-worth-sweep property-rights statutory-interpretation takings Whether the Government's uncompensated appropriation of private companies' earnings and net worth through the Net Worth Sweep effects a taking under t…
22A426 In Re Adam Bereki California Presumed Complete None
22M44 Harold L. Wilborn v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None
22M45 Courtney Johnson v. Beaufort County Department of Social Services, et al. North Carolina Presumed Complete None
22M46 Sanofi-Aventis U.S., LLC v. Mylan Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit Presumed Complete None
22M47 B. J. v. Juneau County Department of Human Services Wisconsin Presumed Complete None
22M48 Daniel W. Maxwell v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete None
22M49 Luis A. Soro v. Pedro Jose Lopez Villari Florida Presumed Complete None
22M50 Kim L. Harper v. James M. Ellis, et al. North Carolina Presumed Complete None
22M51 In Re Rosalind Holmes Presumed Complete None
22M52 Argustus Charles Choyce v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete None
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22M54 M. L. - S. F. v. Kimberly S. Budd, et al. First Circuit Presumed Complete None
22M55 Courtney Saunders v. Kyle Thies, et al. Eighth Circuit Presumed Complete None
22M56 Brian Matthew Morton v. United States Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete None
22M57 R. B., et ux. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. West Virginia Presumed Complete None
22M58 David John Thistle v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None
22M59 D. B. v. Colorado, In the Interest of L. B. and Concerning B. B. Colorado Presumed Complete None
22M60 S. S. v. United States, et al. Armed Forces Presumed Complete None