Conference: 2023-01-13

53 cases — 0 granted, 53 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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Case Title Lower Court Status Flags Tags Question Presented Score
22-174 Gerald E. Groff v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Third Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (57)Relisted (2) civil-rights co-worker-burden de-minimis employment-discrimination hardison religious-accommodation religious-pluralism title-vii undue-hardship 1. Whether this Court should disapprove the more-than-de-minimis-cost test for refusing Title VII religious accommodations stated in Trans World Airli… 68.0
22-166 Geraldine Tyler v. Hennepin County, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (44)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-forfeiture constitutional-law due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fine excessive-fines government-forfeiture property-rights takings-clause tax-debt Hennepin County confiscated 93-year-old Geraldine Tyler's former home as payment for approximately $15,000 in property taxes, penalties, interest, and… 53.5
21-1326 United States, et al., ex rel. Tracy Schutte, et al. v. SuperValu Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) civil-liability deliberate-ignorance false-claims-act fraud knowingly materiality reckless-disregard scienter statutory-interpretation Whether and when a defendant's contemporaneous subjective understanding or beliefs about the lawfulness of its conduct are relevant to whether it "kno… 38.0
22-138 Billy Raymond Counterman v. Colorado Colorado Judgment Issued Amici (20)Relisted (5) first-amendment free-speech objective-standard reasonable-person speech-protection subjective-intent true-threats Whether, to establish that a statement is a "true threat" unprotected by the First Amendment, the government must show that the speaker subjectively k… 32.5
22-227 Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, et al. v. Brian W. Coughlin First Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (9)Relisted (2) abrogation bankruptcy-code circuit-split indian-tribes sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation tribal-sovereignty Whether the Bankruptcy Code expresses unequivocally Congress's intent to abrogate the sovereign immunity of Indian tribes. 20.0
22-210 Neil Dupree v. Kevin Younger Fourth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure final-judgment interlocutory-orders legal-issue post-trial-motion preservation-of-claims summary-judgment Whether to preserve the issue for appellate review a party must reassert in a post-trial motion a purely legal issue rejected at summary judgment. 16.5
22-108 Richard R. Watkinson v. Alaska Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) free-exercise free-exercise-clause government-neutrality prisoner-rights religious-accommodation religious-accommodations rluipa strict-scrutiny substantial-burden 1. Does the Free Exercise Clause permit a prison to deny accommodations to the Petitioner for his religious exercise that it already allows for secula… 15.5
22-23 Jean Francois Pugin v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Fourth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (2)Relisted (3) aggravated-felony board-of-immigration-appeals chevron-deference immigration-law immigration-nationality-act obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation Under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), a noncitizen who is convicted of an "aggravated felony" is subject to mandatory removal and faces enh… 13.5
22-381 Ashot Yegiazaryan, aka Ashot Egiazaryan v. Vitaly Ivanovich Smagin, et al. Ninth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (2) business-reputation civil-rico court-judgment domestic-injury foreign-injury foreign-plaintiff intangible-property legal-test patent In RJR Nabisco, this Court, applying the presumption against extraterritoriality, held that a civil RICO plaintiff states a cognizable claim under RIC… 12.0
22-111 United States, et al., ex rel. Thomas Proctor v. Safeway, Inc. Seventh Circuit Judgment Issued Relisted (3) circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act government-contracts knowingly-violated legal-interpretation scienter standing statutory-interpretation subjective-understanding Whether and when a defendant's contemporaneous subjective understanding or beliefs about the lawfulness of its conduct are relevant to whether it "kno… 11.5
22-331 Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General v. Fernando Cordero-Garcia, aka Fernando Cordero Ninth Circuit Judgment Issued Relisted (2) circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration immigration-law obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation witness-dissuasion Whether dissuading a witness from reporting a crime, in violation of California law, is "an offense relating to obstruction of justice," 8 U.S.C. 1101… 11.0
22-383 CMB Monaco, fka Compagnie Monegasque de Banque v. Vitaly Ivanovich Smagin, et al. Ninth Circuit Judgment Issued Relisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights domestic-injury due-process extraterritorial-application foreign-plaintiff intangible-property rico rico-act standing Whether a foreign plaintiff with no alleged connection to the United States may nevertheless allege a "domestic" injury under RJR Nabisco sufficient t… 11.0
22-491 Raymond Delgado v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona motion-to-suppress right-to-counsel right-to-remain-silent sixth-amendment suppression-of-confession Whether Delgado was denied effective assistance of counsel by his counsel's failure to file a motion to suppress his confession given in response to c… 8.5
22-567 Gary Mattos, et al. v. AFSCME Council 3 Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 agency-fees civil-rights constitutional-rights damages first-amendment good-faith good-faith-defense section-1983 state-law state-law-immunity Section 1983 provides that "every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State" deprives a citizen of… 8.5
22-352 Missouri v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Amici (1) american-rescue-plan-act article-1-section-8 constitutional constitutional-challenge standing tax-mandate tenth-amendment treasury-interpretation In response to the pandemic-related economic downturn, Congress passed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA), Pub. L. No. 117-2, 135 Stat. 4. AR… 6.5
22-442 Tatana Spicakova Romero, et vir v. Li-Chuan Shih, et al. California Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment land-use private-property property-rights takings 1. Whether a court order that excludes land owners from their real property and allows other private parties to physically invade and occupy the owner… 5.5
22-452 Bernice Curry-Malcolm v. New York State Division of Human Rights, et al. New York Denied administrative-law agency-decision civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection retaliation title-vii 1. The word "substantial" is not found in the governing statute, CPLR 5601(a), or the New York State Constitution provision that provides for appeals … 5.5
22-462 Ruby J. Watts v. John Stewart, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied civil-rights court-appointed-counsel directed-verdict discrimination due-process employment-discrimination employment-law equal-pay-act jury-trial prima-facie-case 1. Did the lower court err in its issuing a directed verdict when a documented prima facie case of discrimination had been established? 2. Did the lo… 5.5
22-466 Herederos de Roberto Gomez Cabrera, LLC v. Teck Resources Limited Eleventh Circuit Denied civil-rights due-process extraterritorial-statute federal-court federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment foreign-defendant fourteenth-amendment international-law personal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether the Fifth Amendment imposes the same restrictions as the Fourteenth Amendment on the exercise of personal jurisdiction by a federal court unde… 5.5
22M61 Miguel Angel Mota v. United States Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None 5.5
22M62 Derrick Tyrone Moore v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied None 5.5
22-279 Norine Cave v. Suvidha Sachdeva, et al. Georgia Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment daubert daubert-standard directed-verdict discovery discovery-requirements due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment 1. Whether a litigant's fundamental right to a fair trial, under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution,… 4.0
22-5747 Demmerick Eric Brown v. Karen D. Brown, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ex-post-facto good-time-credit good-time-credits mandatory-parole parole parole-board-policy retroactive-application retroactive-punishment sentencing-modification Petitioner committed several offenses in the 1980s. He received lengthy consecutive sentences, began serving them, and earned credit for good behavior… 4.0
22-461 Scott Troogstad, et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-mandate due-process employment employment-condition first-amendment religious-exemption substantive-due-process vaccination-mandate vaccine-policy I. Whether the City of Chicago violated substantive due process in requiring employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of their emplo… 3.5
22-478 David M. Greco v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process erpo-act fourth-amendment standing state-court-proceedings younger-abstention 1. Whether the fact that the challenged portions of New Jersey's ERPO Act are "... flagrantly and patently violative ..." of the Fourth Amendment to t… 3.5
22-479 Steven Onysko v. Martin J. Walsh, Secretary of Labor, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-deference circuit-court-conflicts circuit-court-review safe-drinking-water-act standard-of-review summary-judgment whistleblower-protection With Administrative Procedure Act (APA) jurisdiction, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed U.S. Department of Labor, Administrative Review Boar… 3.5
22-493 Erica Bojicic, dba Evolve Dance Company, LLC, et al. v. Richard Michael DeWine, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Governor of Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-law due-process emergency-powers eminent-domain fifth-amendment government-action necessity police-power property-rights regulatory-takings takings takings-clause Is the government required to prove with evidence that its action taken during an emergency which intrudes on private property rights was a necessity … 3.5
22-552 Camellia Grill Holdings, Inc. v. Grill Holdings, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split contractual-terms due-process due-process-clause exxon-mobil inextricably-intertwined intellectual-property property-rights rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine 1. Whether the Court should resolve the circuit split in the wake of Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Saudi Basic Industries Corp., 544 U.S. 280 (2005) and elucid… 3.5
22-559 Victor Elias Photography, LLC v. Ice Portal, Inc. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split copyright-infringement copyright-management-information digital-millennium-copyright-act intentional-removal legal-standing standing statutory-interpretation Whether a plaintiff alleging a violation of § 1202(b) is required to demonstrate that the defendant's "intentional[] remov[al] or alter[ation]" of CMI… 3.5
22-563 Randall Greer, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Christopher Greer, Deceased v. James Haman, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived deadly-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor jury-instruction law-enforcement probable-cause self-defense tennessee-v-garner use-of-force A law enforcement officer's use of deadly force in self-defense is not constitutionally unreasonable. Courts throughout the nation universally agree t… 3.5
22-572 Robert M. Glen v. Trip Advisor LLC, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights confiscated-property cuban-property helms-burton-act inheritance-rights private-right-of-action property-confiscation standing statutory-interpretation trafficking trafficking-claims Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, 22 U.S.C. § 6081 et seq., is a broad remedial statute that authorizes U.S. nationals whose property was confiscated… 3.5
22-5545 Clinton Folkes v. Charles Williams, Jr., Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction direct-appeal indigent-defense ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-misrepresentation procedural-default right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Whether a criminal defendant's right to counsel on direct appeal attaches throughout the period when the appellate court has jurisdiction over the … -1.0
22-5734 Timothy W. Saunders v. Terry Raybon, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied Relisted (3)IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process gatekeeping-function habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation sua-sponte When a petitioner files a proper application for a certificate of appealability, a single judge grants a defective certificate without objection from … -3.5
22-6036 Martin Robinson v. Jim Simone, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied IFP case-documentation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-procedure due-process judicial-oversight jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction legal-review standing Why he es REE eee, IT 5' CLERKS, THE TRIAL AM) APPEALS Courr? FoR Fails TD REVIEW An HERR Loweh Contr s DECISISNS PEL, Wuse 12.94, 1257 , ACCORDING T… -4.5
22-6048 Martin Robinson v. Tom Schweitzer, Warden Ohio Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review legal-precedent lower-court-decision property-rights standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified. -4.5
22-6052 Vandell Slade v. Supreme Court of Ohio Ohio Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings Why the Ohio Supreme Court lgnore most of my Complant in the disqualification Affidaunt; Mainly Receiving grond Jury tronscrpts that wasnt mine? I wo… -4.5
22-6066 Brent Stephens v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2254 appeal appeal'\n\n'Whether the Federal Court of Appeals f appeal'\n\n'Whether the U.S. District Court Magist appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion exhaustion'\n\n'Whether the Federal Court of Appea federal-statute fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-deference jury-trial jury-verdict magistrate-bar procedural-bar sentencing standard-of-review standard-of-review'\n\n'Whether the U.S. District trial-court-authority QUESTION A: Whether the Trial Court had the authority to supplant the verdict of the jury on punishment? QUESTION B: Whether the U.S. District Court … -4.5
22-6068 Anthony Braxton v. Superior Court of the District of Columbia District of Columbia Denied IFP appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure jurisdiction standing supreme-court-rules Question not identified. -4.5
22-6069 Rufus Spearman v. Mary Parson, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violations district-court dolan-v-city-of-tigard due-process endangered-species-act federal-procedure judicial-dismissal nollan-v-california-coastal-commission section-1983 takings Question not identified. -4.5
22-6070 Charles Rochester v. City of New York, New York, et al. New York Denied IFP aba-rules attorney-misconduct conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights disqualification due-process judicial-misconduct legal-ethics pro-se pro-se-litigation 1. Can the New York Supreme State Judge and the Opposing Attorney's join FORCER, to defeat pro-se, by being silent, on each one's Official Misconduct,… -4.5
22-6071 Manuel Bracamontes v. California California Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process jury-determination jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt Does the mandatory weighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances under the California death penalty statute—a factfinding determination that se… -4.5
22-6074 Terry Eugene Sears v. Vernia Roberts, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights security-measures 1. WHETHER THE PROCEDURES REQUIRED TO INSTITUTE UNUSUAL SECURITY MEASURES APPLY IN CIVIL CASES BROUGHT BY PRISONER - PLAINTIFFS? 2. WHETHER DISTRICT … -4.5
22-6077 William Donnell, III v. Eddie Caley, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extrinsic-evidence impeachment lead-detective right-to-present-defense trial-court-error trial-error witness-impeachment 1. Did the trial court, by prohibiting me from impeaching the lead detective with extrinsic evidence specifically contradicting his testimony on direc… -4.5
22-6079 Teshome Sok Sameru v. Minnesota Minnesota Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence self-incrimination witness Question not identified. -4.5
22-6098 Quartshezz Leonard Lewis v. Texas Texas Denied IFP burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-error legal-review statutory-analysis Question not identified. -4.5
22-6099 Robert Lewis v. Hoke County, North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation procedural-default standing What inhibits a Court of Appeals' discretion to invoke the waiver doctrine? Whether a court of appeals should apply the waiver doctrine to a litigant… -4.5
22-6100 Levi Jonathan v. Florida Florida Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process proof-of-service standing takings Question not identified. -4.5
22-6101 Norman James Thompson v. Florida Florida Denied IFP 1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing ^ p&DCess nxa^b uu^jsAsA VOW k ^Wj/^AMvsW ^ ^ trApwtW \pfr{ x NioTW\ 93A& (\r^ p(L£>i'er^S K Et^dQ^ ^ tWs^tkAplrirU^ f^V dawv Question not identifie… -4.5
22-5778 William Paul Burch v. America's Servicing Company, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bias civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal property-rights recusal sanctions If a judge continuously refuses to recuse himself following an extreme amount of verifiable bias should another judge in a close, but separate divisio… -6.0
22-6115 Danny Fabricant v. Federal Election Commission, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii-standing campaign-finance constitutional-law constitutional-qualifications declaratory-judgment equal-protection federal-election-campaign-act federal-election-commission prisoner-litigation standing statutory-interpretation 1. Does 52 U.S.C. § 30101's REQUIREMENT, that potential candidates for the House of Representatives report (either) the receipt of more that $5,000 in… -6.5
22-6133 David Priester v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights right-to-counsel sentencing-mitigation voluntariness waiver-of-counsel Battery or identify theft, where one pays inconsistent testimony battery, and the statute of grand theft? Is Does the petitioner have a due process r… -6.5
22-6152 Carlos Edward Kennedy v. Carla Jones Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure continuance discretion forensic-evidence pro-se Question not identified. -6.5
22-6346 Robert D. Johnson v. Douglas Fender, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-continuance speedy-trial sufficiency-of-evidence IS IT NOT ERRONEUOSLY FACTUAL AND A MISAPPLICATION OF LAW, RULE OR STATUE FOR THE STATE COURTS AND DISTRICT COURTS TO CONCUR WITH A CONTINUANCE THAT W… -6.5