Conference: 2023-02-17

357 cases — 0 granted, 357 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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Case Title Lower Court Status Flags Tags Question Presented
21-7999 Kristine Arutyunyan v. Cindy Fields, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction diversity-of-citizenship federal-question pro-se public-importance standing supreme-court-rule Whether the pro se civil lawsuit based on federal question and diversity of citizenship has merit and should be heard by the Supreme Court
21-8077 Duane Yates v. Iowa Iowa Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-review due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause governor-executive-order indigent-status iowa-corrections iowa-department-of-corrections restitution sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements Whether the Iowa Courts have unlawfully determined the restitution that Duane Yates was ordered to pay
22-149 Rosalie Weisfeld, et al. v. John Scott, Texas Secretary of State, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-challenge election-law enforcement-authority ex-parte-young federal-jurisdiction federalism sovereign-immunity standing state-official Whether a state's chief election officer may invoke sovereign immunity solely because local officials carry out day-to-day election administration dut…
22-190 Wikimedia Foundation v. National Security Agency/Central Security Service, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Amici (3) civil-rights dismissal due-process evidence-review ex-parte-review general-dynamics judicial-dismissal legal-procedure national-security reynolds state-secrets state-secrets-privilege Does the state secrets privilege authorize courts to dismiss actions where plaintiffs can prove their case without privileged evidence?
22-250 Matthew Brach, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii article-three case-or-controversy civil-rights due-process emergency-powers executive-action mootness pandemic-restrictions standing Is a case moot under Article III's case or controversy requirement when the governor rescinds the offending policy after it is challenged in court, bu…
22-276 Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Howell Management Services, et al. Utah Denied Relisted (2) appellate-review civil-procedure contempt due-process jurisdictional-challenge rule-11 rule-83 safe-harbor vexatious-litigant Whether application of the contempt analysis associated with Utah R. Civ. P. 11 sanctions to review a Utah R. Civ. P. 83 Vexatious Litigant order is f…
22-293 Anthony Novak v. City of Parma, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (5) circuit-split civil-rights first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement parody parody-speech police-misconduct qualified-immunity Whether an officer is entitled to qualified immunity for arresting an individual based solely on speech parodying the government, so long as no case h…
22-314 Kimberly Cox v. Law Offices of Les Zieve, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) None
22-351 Charles Simon v. Department of Justice, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act arbitrary-and-capricious arbitrary-capricious civil-rights due-process inmate-compensation judicial-review standing Whether the Lower Courts' unconstitutional procedural departure conflicts with the prerequisite demand pursuant several holding of United States Appea…
22-360 Veteran Warriors, Inc., et al. v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit Denied Amici (2) administrative-law agency-interpretation chevron-deference judicial-review pro-veteran-canon statutory-construction statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs Whether courts can defer to the construction of a statute by the Department of Veterans Affairs without first considering whether the statute permits …
22-367 Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Cooperative de Ahorro y Credito Abraham Rosa, et al. First Circuit Denied bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge constitutional-claims equitable-treatment fresh-start just-compensation takings-clause unsecured-claims Are pre-bankruptcy unsecured claims for just compensation under the Takings Clause uniquely non-dischargeable, unlike every other type of unsecured cl…
22-379 Arkansas Times LP v. Mark Waldrip, as Trustee of the University of Arkansas Board of Trustees, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) boycott boycott-speech civil-rights constitutional-law content-discrimination first-amendment free-speech government-contractors viewpoint-discrimination Is a state law requiring government contractors to certify that they are not participating in, and will not participate in, boycotts of Israel or Isra…
22-380 Raland J. Brunson v. Alma S. Adams, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equitable-maxim jurisdiction-conflict national-security national-security-breach object-principle-of-justice presidential-removal separation-of-powers standing Whether the trial court has jurisdiction to try the merits of this case involving a serious national security breach and the possible removal of a sit…
22-385 Roger David Towers v. Mike Hamasaki Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii civil-procedure civil-rights discretionary-review due-process habeas judicial-referral magistrate-assignment standing void-for-vagueness Whether the referral to a magistrate was lawful given the district judge's admission of being 'wholly unable to handle civil matters
22-430 Charles Barton v. Texas Texas Denied Amici (7) criminal-law criminal-statute due-process electronic-communication electronic-communications expressive-speech first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine public-concern Does the criminalization of expressive electronic communications in Texas Penal Code § 42.07(a)(7) implicate the First Amendment?
22-432 Rieth-Riley Construction Co., Inc. v. Operating Engineers’ Local 324 Fringe Benefit Funds, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied contract-claim erisa-claim erisa-section-515 federal-jurisdiction garmon-preemption jurisdictional-issue labor-practice multiemployer-funds nlra-section-8(a)(5) nlrb-jurisdiction unfair-labor-practices Whether the Sixth Circuit may disregard the Court's holding that Garmon preemption is jurisdictional, turning not on a claim's labels but, instead, on…
22-434 Slade Alan Moore v. Texas Texas Denied criminal-law criminal-statute due-process electronic-communication first-amendment free-speech harassment intent-standard overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine Is a law that criminalizes expressive speech immunized from any First Amendment scrutiny if it also criminalizes non-expressive conduct?
22-435 Renetrice R. Pierre v. Midland Credit Management, Inc. Seventh Circuit Denied Amici (2) article-iii-standing circuit-split emotional-distress fair-debt-collection-practices-act intangible-injuries intangible-injury psychological-harm statutory-right Whether a plaintiff who suffers emotional or psychological distress and confusion from a debt collector's unlawful attempt to collect a debt has Artic…
22-447 Johnson & Johnson, et al. v. California California Denied Amici (4) civil-penalties civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-protection due-process fair-notice false-advertising free-speech speech-chilling statutory-interpretation unfair-competition-law Whether a robust fair notice standard applies to California's Unfair Competition Law and False Advertising Law
22-455 Tyson Foods, Inc., et al. v. Rolandette Glenn, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) covid-19-pandemic executive-order federal-direction federal-officer-removal federal-supervision food-supply national-emergency national-food-supply state-court-removal state-law-claims Whether a private actor that assists the federal government in securing the national food supply during a national emergency, under extensive federal …
22-464 United States v. Saleem Hakim Eleventh Circuit Denied appellate-review automatic-vacatur criminal-procedure judicial-discretion pretrial-procedure right-to-counsel self-representation structural-error Whether a defendant's erroneous pretrial self-representation categorically constitutes structural error
22-468 Daniel James Altstatt v. City of Sacramento, California California Denied bajakajian-factors civil-penalty civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine united-states-v-bajakajian Whether a state court erred by failing to apply the factors set out in United States v. Bajakajian in evaluating whether a civil penalty is unconstitu…
22-469 Cooperative Educational Service Agency #5 v. Sarah Simon Seventh Circuit Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employee-rights equitable-relief federal-family-medical-leave-act fmla-violation monetary-damages prejudice-standard ragsdale-v-wolverine-world-wide seventh-circuit-interpretation standing Does an employee's subjective loss of status that cannot be remedied by monetary damages or appropriate equitable relief constitute prejudice that wou…
22-471 Consumer Data Industry Association v. Aaron M. Frey, Attorney General of Maine, et al. First Circuit Denied Amici (2) circuit-split consumer-reports fair-credit-reporting-act federal-preemption federal-regulation preemption state-law statutory-interpretation uniform-standards Whether FCRA broadly preempts state laws relating to the subject matters expressly described in 15 U.S.C. §1681t(b)(1), or narrowly preempts state law…
22-486 Texas v. John Wesley Baldwin Texas Denied 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-search criminal-conspiracy fourth-amendment illinois-v-gates organized-crime probable-cause riley-standard riley-v-california search-warrant warrant-requirements Whether an officer's uncorroborated belief that co-conspirators who planned a crime over multiple days used their cell phones to do so is a 'bare conc…
22-492 Kelvin Buck, et al., Appellants v. Michael Watson, et al. Mississippi Denied None
22-499 John Earl Erickson, et ux. v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Long Beach Mortgage Loan Trust 2004-6 Washington Denied civil-procedure civil-proceedings due-process false-pleadings foreclosure-action forged-documents fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-misconduct relief-from-judgment summary-judgment Does fraud on the court committed by officers of the court in civil proceedings violate due process requiring relief from judgments fraudulently procu…
22-504 Peter Paul Mitrano v. Marcia Mitrano, et al. Virginia Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
22-5046 James R. Butler v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process foreign-witness oath oath-validity witness-testimony Whether the oath of a State's witness is valid in a criminal proceeding when the witness is testifying from a foreign country by video-satellite trans…
22-5063 Michael A. Tulipat v. United States Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 7th-amendment administrative-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-employment military-discharge military-justice rule-42b standing Does Rule 42(b) of the Rules of the Court of Federal Claims, 'Failure to Prosecute' overrule the 7th Amendment?
22-507 Tyson Martin v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell reasonabl-jurists-debate reasonable-jurists Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability
22-513 Hyrum James Geddes v. Weber County, Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied civil-rights detention-facility due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment objective-reasonableness section-1983 Whether the test of objective reasonableness for excessive force claims under the Fourteenth Amendment is the same as the test under the Fourth Amendm…
22-516 R. M. C., III v. J. D. L. Colorado Denied Relisted (2) adoption adoption-law child-welfare civil-rights custody custody-order due-process family-law parental-rights state-jurisdiction state-power Whether a state may require an adoptive parent to comply with a custody order issued prior to his adoption of the child without due process
22-520 Temple University Hospital, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board District of Columbia Denied Response Waived administrative-law circuit-court-review federal-labor-policy judicial-estoppel labor-law labor-relations nlrb-jurisdiction precedent subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the D.C. Circuit lawfully affirmed the National Labor Relations Board's new rule
22-525 Adrean L. Smith v. Gary A. Boughton, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-guarantee fair-presentment fifth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus lower-courts miranda-rights seventh-circuit state-court-review Whether a habeas petitioner fairly presents his federal claim in state court
22-526 Pulak Barua v. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Texas Denied Response Waived administrative-hearing administrative-law default-judgment due-process fourteenth-amendment notice notice-requirement service-of-process state-administrative-agency takings Whether the notice given to Petitioner violated his Due Process rights
22-528 Gilbert Rodriguez, IV v. Texas Texas Denied criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights sixth-amendment Whether the 1838rd district court for Harris County, Texas erred in denying Petitioner Rodriguez's writ of Habeas Corpus
22-532 Joachim Martillo v. Twitter, Inc., et al. First Circuit Denied Response Waived 1996-interactive-computer-service common-carrier common-law-common-carrier constitutional-right-to-non-discriminatory-common- digital-property first-amendment first-amendment-right-to-refuse-message-common-car hosting-of-digital-personal-literary-property-as-s interactive-computer-service logical-fallacy-in-statute-interpretation public-forum social-media whether-digital-personal-literary-property-is-other-property
22-533 Ifrah Yassin v. Heather Weyker Eighth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 42-usc-1983 bivens-action civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights federal-cross-deputization qualified-immunity section-1983 task-force Whether state and local police officers are immune from suit under 42 U.S.C. 1983 whenever they are federally cross-deputized as members of joint stat…
22-5364 Quartavious Davis v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-defense due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-negotiations prosecutorial-discretion right-to-counsel Sixth-Amendment Strickland-v-Washington Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
22-538 William F. Nored, et ux., as Conservators, Parents, and Next Friends of William F. Nored, Jr. v. Tennessee Department of Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights developmental-disabilities government-liability intellectual-disabilities medicaid-act nondelegable-duty statutory-interpretation Whether the Tennessee Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities has a nondelegable duty to enforce The Medicaid Act, 42 U.S.C. §1396, …
22-541 Peter Jokich v. Rush University Medical Center Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure contract-waiver due-process erie-doctrine federalism protected-activity retaliation summary-judgment waiver Whether the panel imposed an unsupported standard of proof for waiver under Illinois law, depriving the petitioner of due process
22-544 Innovation Sciences, LLC v. Amazon.com, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived 35-usc-102 anticipation anticipatory-reference clear-and-convincing clear-and-convincing-evidence invention patent patent-infringement patent-invalidity prior-art Whether an inference that a device that could have existed before the invention thereof by an inventor is properly treated as an anticipatory referenc…
22-545 Sage Lewis, et al. v. Akron Board of Zoning Appeals Ohio Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process emergency-shelter liberty-interest property-rights rational-basis rational-basis-test zoning zoning-code When a person wants to exercise the deeply and objectively rooted right to use liberty and property for the non-economic purpose of saving lives, does…
22-546 Nazira Urrego v. Samuel I. White, P.C. Fourth Circuit Denied civil-rights constitutional-standards due-process equal-protection foreclosure loan-assignment property-rights takings Whether Virginia courts have violated the constitutional standards of due process and equal protection?
22-547 Randall E. Rollins v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law executive-action federal-jurisdiction immigration immigration-policy judicial-review national-security separation-of-powers treason Whether the court erred in not considering the emergency issue of illegal alien invasion and the government's failure to stop it
22-548 Randall E. Rollins v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-jurisdiction justice-courts pro-se pro-se-litigant sovereign-immunity Did the court below err in not considering the issue that pro se litigants in Texas justice courts are treated unequally from all litigants in non-jus…
22-549 Raymond J. Liddy v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived digital-privacy electronic-evidence fourth-amendment internet-subscriber-information law-enforcement-search personal-data search-and-seizure subscriber-information warrant-requirement Does Internet subscriber information constitute a digital 'paper' or 'effect' under the Fourth Amendment?
22-551 Francisco Negrete, et al. v. City of Oakland, California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights consent-decree federal-consent-decree federal-court-power federal-jurisdiction federal-power local-government municipal-charter settlement-agreement state-law state-law-conflict subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether federal courts have subject-matter jurisdiction over a state law claim that requires resolving a conflict between state law and a federal cons…
22-553 Derek Rodgers v. United Services Automobile Association, aka USAA Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived arbitration civil-procedure duty federal-procedure federal-rules rights rule-37 sanctions spoliation-of-evidence witness-coaching Should arbitrators have the duty and right to impose sanctions for violations of FRCP Rule 37?
22-557 Peter Kleidman v. RFF Family Partnership, LP California Denied attorney-fees civil-procedure contract-law contractual-claims due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial summary-adjudication Does California's legal framework for adjudicating prevailing parties' claims for contractual attorney's fees violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal…
22-558 Pedro Lance Soto v. Texas Texas Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process electronic-communication first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine Is a law that criminalizes expressive speech immunized from First Amendment scrutiny if it also criminalizes non-expressive conduct?
22-560 Nathan Mowery v. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived agency-action anti-discrimination due-process executive-deference judicial-review national-security security-clearance stare-decisis Whether this Court's decision in Dep't of the Navy v. Egan precludes any and all judicial review of agency actions involving employees with security c…
22-5608 Anthony Dewayne Lee Turner v. Patrick Covello, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standing state-courts Whether the state court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims due to a procedural default issue
22-5672 Luan Van Nguyen v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP and whether the ineffective assistance of counsel 4th-amendment carjacking civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy exclusionary-rule ineffective-assistance probable-cause search-and-seizure sixth-amendment standing Whether the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution prohibits or limits the government's ability to conduct warrantless searches and seizures?
22-568 Jeffrey A. Cochran v. The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived artful-pleading circuit-split class-action federal-preemption material-fact material-facts misrepresentation securities-litigation securities-litigation-uniform-standards-act securities-regulation slusa Whether SLUSA bars a state-law class action 'alleging a misrepresentation or omission of a material fact' when the complaint contains no such allegati…
22-570 Richard Y. Kim v. Hawaii Office of Elections, et al. Hawaii Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process election-certification election-regulations elections federal-rules judicial-discretion state-rules state-sovereignty voting-machines If this honorable US Supreme Court determines that the Elections Office of Hawaii (EOH) failed to follow State Rules and Regulations and due process, …
22-571 United States and Michigan, ex rel. Mohamad Sy, et al. v. Oakland Physicians Medical Center, LLC, dba Pontiac General Hospital, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied civil-procedure dismissal dismissal-without-prejudice false-claims-act qui-tam retaliation-claim service-of-process statute-of-limitations Whether a district court may decline a discretionary extension of time to effect service and, in effect, dismiss with prejudice a relator's individual…
22-5725 Marty Joe Banghart v. Dan Sullivan, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit federal-procedure habeas-corpus standing Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in denying Banghart's motion for a certificate of appealability
22-574 Tiffany Lay, et vir v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-review bench-trial bench-trials circuit-court-review civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure findings-of-fact judicial-findings obiter-dictum standard-of-review stare-decisis Whether Federal District Court judges properly comply with FRCP 52(a) in conducting complex bench trials
22-575 William S. Toppi v. Massachusetts Massachusetts Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias massachusetts-appeals-court-rule-23.0 plea-waiver procedural-due-process recusal waiver-of-rights Whether the sentencing judge and defense counsel were required to recuse themselves after exhibiting clear bias relating to Defendant's case
22-576 Cindy Ellen Ochoa v. Public Consulting Group, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 42-usc-1983 compelled-speech constitutional-violation due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment public-employee-rights public-sector-unions section-1983 union-dues Does a challenge to a statutory system alleging failure to provide due process under the Fourteenth Amendment and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 require an injured …
22-5786 Foroud Foladpour v. City of Upland, California California Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment government-liability judicial-discretion negligence standing trial-court-procedure Judicial discretion is not a matter of right
22-579 Jeanie Bisconte v. Sandia National Laboratories, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-limits employment-discrimination enclave-clause federal-enclave federal-jurisdiction federal-property jurisdiction jurisdictional-scope tenth-amendment u.s-constitution Whether the Enclave Clause limits federal jurisdiction over employment discrimination cases where the plaintiff and defendants did not work on or suff…
22-5814 Christopher Allan Allred v. Washington Washington Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-stage cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment execution mental-illness rational-understanding right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who has a severe mental illness that …
22-584 Children’s Health Defense, et al. v. Food and Drug Administration, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived agency-action article-iii case-or-controversy constitutional-standing injury resource-diversion risk-of-injury standing third-party third-party-injury Whether a Constitutionally cognizable case or controversy exists under Article III
22-5855 Kenrick C. Hamilton v. Northern Virginia District Office, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure debt-collection-practices default-judgment fair-debt-collection-practices federal-jurisdiction security-clearance service-of-process subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the court erred in finding that the plaintiff did not properly serve the defendant despite service by U.S. Marshals
22-590 Sergio Verdu v. Trustees of Princeton University, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived federal-courts rule-of-law supervisory-authority third-circuit title-ix title-vii whether-courts-should-issue-not-precedential-opinions
22-5900 Robert Bethel v. Ohio Ohio Denied IFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence guilty-plea impeachment-evidence united-states-v-ruiz Whether there is a fundamental difference between material exculpatory and impeachment evidence when a guilty plea is involved, and does due process r…
22-5948 Brett W. Cormier v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law contract-clause contract-impairment contracts-clause criminal-law due-process grand-theft impairment-of-contracts state-action state-prosecution Did the State of Florida violate Art. I, Sect. 10 of the United States Constitution when it impaired the obligation of petitioner's contracts by charg…
22-596 Lamon Sandel Dewayne Donnell v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process foreign-state judicial-procedure jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunities sovereign-immunities-act subject-matter-jurisdiction title-28 Is this Court, and all public offices, a FOREIGN STATE as defined under FRCP Rule 4(j) and under Title 28— JUDICIARY | AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE?
22-597 Herbert W. G. Clanton v. Sam's Club, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1964 constitutional-amendments discrimination-in-employment due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection federal-rules-of-civil-procedure Whether the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure required compliance with the minimum benefits, privileges, immunities, and degrees of protection guarante…
22-5979 Demetrice R. Devine and Brandon Jowan Mangum v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP blockburger-test consecutive-sentences constitutional-review criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy modified-blockburger new-sentencing-hearings sentencing sentencing-enhancements substantive-reasonableness Should this Court adopt the predominant modified Blockburger approach and find the maximum consecutive sentences imposed on the Petitioners on all cou…
22-599 Todd Allen Moats v. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived None
22-600 Gregory Bartko v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived aedpa aedpa-standard brady-claim brady-rule exculpatory-evidence gatekeeping-standard habeas-corpus napue-claim napue-rule panetti-v-quarterman Is the stringent gatekeeping standard under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b) consistent with AEDPA and Panetti v. Quarterman?
22-6017 Reginald Eugene Grimes, Sr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit false-testimony perjury plain-error prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-hearing Did the Eleventh Circuit commit error in denying a COA for government misconduct, perjured testimony, and sentencing violations?
22-603 Jevarreo Kelley-Lomax v. City of Chicago, Illinois Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived bailee-duty bailment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment pre-trial-detention property-rights property-seizure Whether the refusal to return lawfully seized property implicates the Fourth Amendment
22-604 Garth Janke v. Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived 3d-printing gottschalk-v-benson mathematical-model parker-v-flook patent-eligibility patent-law patent-monopoly product-preemption Can a known patentable product become ineligible for patenting when it is claimed to be made by applying a mathematical model of the product on a 3D p…
22-6056 Susan Kay Slivicki v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada-accommodation agency-misconduct civil-rights contract-breach defamation eeoc-retaliation employment-discrimination federal-employment geographic-exclusion non-communication owcp veterans-preference Contract-law,civil-rights,federal-employment,ada,veterans-preference,hippa
22-606 Maynor Roberto Cifuentes-Martinez v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived None
22-608 CVG Ferrominera Orinoco, C.A. v. Commodities & Minerals Enterprise Ltd. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-award federal-arbitration-act federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-sovereign-immunities-act new-york-convention public-policy service-of-process service-of-summons Did the Second Circuit err in holding service of a Summons pursuant to Rule 4 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Fed. R. Civ. P. 4, upon a party…
22-609 Carsten Igor Rosenow, aka Carlos Senta v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split electronic-communication electronic-communications fourth-amendment government-action privacy private-search search-and-seizure statutory-interpretation Whether the Ninth Circuit's rigid multi-pronged test for determining government action in relation to electronic communication service providers compo…
22-6091 Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied IFP capital-sentencing certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-of-the-case martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sixth-amendment Whether the law-of-the-case doctrine prohibits a court from changing its previous ruling on the same question later during the course of litigation
22-6150 Walter Raglin v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP capital-murder capital-punishment closing-arguments criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance procedural-bar res-judicata state-procedural-bar trial-counsel voir-dire Whether a capital defendant is deprived of the effective assistance of trial counsel
22-6154 In Re Lyle R. Harrison Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause due-process illinois-supreme-court judge judicial-misconduct police-reports prosecutor speedy-trial Whether due process allows the Denial of Speedy Trial
22-6157 Carlton McKissic v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legal-interpretation plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing state-court-review Questions Presented
22-6158 L. Powers v. Unclaimed Property, et al. Florida Denied IFP abuse-of-power civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-standing due-process guardianship-dispute inheritance inheritance-rights judicial-impartiality judicial-technicality standing state-funds Shall we send the wrong message to public that judges use illogical technicalities over interests of justice to cover for Florida Governor?
22-6159 Jeffrey Morris v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing post-conviction recantation witness-testimony Does the State of Florida violate a defendant's due process and/or constitutional rights in post-conviction proceedings for full development, presenta…
22-6164 Calvin Gary Walker v. Texas Texas Denied IFP constitutional-law double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judgment restitution sentencing Does the Fifth Amendment's double jeopardy clause bar a restitution order entered ninety-nine days after Petitioner's sentence began and after entry o…
22-6170 Andrea Peterson v. HVM L.L.C., et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-amendment court-rules disability-rights discovery due-process equal-protection legal-representation standing Whether a person(s) with a handicap or disability are protected by the Due Process Clause
22-6171 Leihinahina Sullivan v. United States District Court for the District of Hawaii Ninth Circuit Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression government-misconduct grand-jury grand-jury-subpoena prosecutorial-misconduct subpoenas Whether the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii sanctioned the abuse of process and violation of the Petitioner's Fifth Amendment …
22-6173 Steven D'Agostino v. Bunce Atkinson Third Circuit Denied IFP bankruptcy-trustee barton-doctrine chapter-7 chapter-7-bankruptcy conflict-of-interest prima-facie standing statutory-obligations trustee-handbook What is the significance and/or importance of the United States Trustee Office's Handbook for Chapter 7 Trustees?
22-6174 Porfirio Duarte-Herrera v. Brian Williams, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP co-defendant-severance constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-instructions ninth-circuit-review severance suppression-of-evidence trial-procedure Did the Ninth Circuit err in denying Mr. Duarte-Herrera's claims of constitutional violations regarding his defense, jury instructions, and failure to…
22-6175 Nancy Abbie Tallent v. Phillip Knight, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-exclusion judicial-bias pro-se pro-se-litigation section-1983 supervisory-power supreme-court-intervention Where officers violated the Petitioner rights afforded by the Constitution of the United States, under 42 U.S. Code § 1983, after exhausting all known…
22-6179 Brandon J. Office v. Marcus Myers Fifth Circuit Denied IFP charging-document constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus illegal-sentence motion-to-correct sentencing Was the Petitioner entitled to Habeas Corpus Relief?
22-6183 James Bauhaus v. Steven Harpe, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit Denied IFP brady-v-md brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression fair-trial false-conviction habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review Does congress illegally nullify the Due Process amendment and the Fair Trial Guarantee of the Supreme Law of this Land
22-6187 Demetrio Lifrieri v. James Stinson Second Circuit Denied IFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fair-trial fourth-amendment murder-prosecution police-search unlawful-evidence unlawful-search Was petitioner's right to a fair trial compromised by the admission of the unlawfully obtained evidence?
22-6188 Marlon Jermaine Johnson v. Bo Thorpe, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-law due-process exhaustion-of-remedies grievance-procedure judicial-review legal-precedent retaliation statutory-interpretation Whether the denial of library access, legal assistance, and the failure to notarize legal documents constitute sufficient injury to state a claim for …
22-6195 Kenneth W. Shelton v. Edward Bickham, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied IFP alibi counsel-performance criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation investigation-failure legal-procedure motion-to-quash Was counsel's performance deficient when counsel failed to conduct an independent investigation concerning the time Petitioner was not present at the …
22-6196 Morris Rucker v. Jim Purviance, Executive Director, Tennessee Board of Parole, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim district-court due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto filing-fee standing Whether the TN U.S. District Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals erred in denying petitioner's ex-post-facto-claim
22-6198 Darrel Thorn v. Racetrac Petroleum, Incorporated Fifth Circuit Denied IFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure appellate-process civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process judicial-leniency meaningful-opportunity pro-se pro-se-litigation standing Whether the procedural treatment currently afforded to pro-se litigants by federal courts comports with due process or whether more leniency is requir…
22-620 Daniel Cox v. Maryland State Board of Elections Maryland Denied Response Waived election-law elections-clause mail-in-ballots maryland-general-assembly montgomery-county moore-v-harper representative-elections u.s-constitution united-states-constitution Whether the Maryland Circuit Court for Montgomery County violated the Elections Clause of the United States Constitution
22-6204 Ronnie L. Famous v. Larry Fuchs, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claims discretionary-review district-court due-process exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default stay-and-abeyance Whether the district court violated the rule announced in Caines v. Dewac by denying petitioner's motion to stay and abeyance, thereby depriving him o…
22-6205 Demetric Hardaway v. Lori Myers, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law district-court first-amendment fourth-circuit legal-interpretation retaliation summary-judgment transfer work-assignment Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of the respondent on the petiti…
22-6208 Jason Ross Gilley v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process evidence-standards fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Question not identified.
22-6222 Christopher Charles Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1038 18-usc-175 biological-weapons bond-v-united-states chemical-weapons federalism How is a court to determine whether Congress has clearly indicated that a federal statute should reach criminal conduct that is the traditional respon…
22-6223 Byron O. Woods Sr. v. United States Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure clearly-erroneous-standard conclusions-of-law court-of-appeals fact-finding federal-circuit judicial-conflict legal-findings pullman-standard rule-52(a) standard-of-review Whether the Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit entered a decision in conflict with the decision of another United States Court of Appeals on the sa…
22-6226 James Armstrong v. Kathy Brittain, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Frackville, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP 28-U.S.C-2254(e)(1) circuit-court-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-standard presumption-of-correctness state-court-determination statutory-interpretation third-circuit-court-of-appeals united-states-supreme-court Did the third Circuit Court of Appeals fail to apply it's face of opinion an petitioner habeas corpus j~etition on 'Presumption Of Correctness' mandat…
22-6230 Derrick A. Edwards v. K. King, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights compelling-interest constitutional-rights criminal-conviction evidence-challenge free-exercise judicial-review least-restrictive-means procedural-limitations RLUIPA substantial-burden substantive-due-process Whether RLUIPA requires the respondent to show that it lacks other means of achieving its desired goal without imposing a substantial burden on the pe…
22-6232 Trevor Jim Bishop v. California California Denied IFP due-process evidence hearsay other-acts other-acts-evidence procedural-error procedure prosecutorial-misconduct trial-counsel waiver Whether the majority opinion erred not only as to the substantive admissibility of the other acts evidence, but whether the majority also erred proced…
22-6234 Rex Gainey v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-limitations constitutional-law covid-19 covid-19-impact district-court-discretion habeas-corpus prison-law-library pro-se-petitioner statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Should district courts adopt a holistic approach to late habeas filings caused by COVID-19 conditions?
22-6235 In Re DeAnn Graham Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-circuit abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure clear-error due-process justiciability mandamus remand Whether a writ of mandamus should be issued directing the court of appeals to remand the case to the district court without delay
22-6236 Michele Gray v. GC Service, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP ada age-discrimination civil-rights disability-rights eeoc employment-discrimination harassment social-security wrongful-termination Is the dismissal of claims under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, Social Security Act, Equal Employment Oppo…
22-6237 Orlando Dean Hobbs v. Clinton Bryant Sixth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process firearm-rights habeas-corpus restoration-of-rights statutory-interpretation Was the Habeas Corpus in this case Effectively Suspended in this case?
22-6239 Nicholas Stewart Hines v. Denny Kaemingk, Secretary, South Dakota Department of Corrections, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts access-to-legal-documents civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection first-amendment judicial-access prisoners-rights retaliation Whether a prisoner's right to access a county courthouse and public records is different than a regular citizen
22-6240 Robert Dale Hines v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-negotiations sixth-amendment trial-counsel Whether the Court violated the petitioner's constitutional rights, including due process and effective assistance of counsel
22-6241 Clarence Lee Hooker v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 6th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process equal-protection federal-law ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct legal-interpretation procedural-due-process Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit erred by denying petitioner's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, due-process, equal-pr…
22-6245 Wade Plair v. Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-violations double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct tampering-with-records Does intentional prosecutorial misconduct disqualify the trial court from pursuing a second prosecution of the same case?
22-6248 Paul Tay v. Michelle Diane Tilley Nichols, et al. Oklahoma Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-commandeering anti-commandeering-doctrine controlled-substances-act election-activities federal-preemption indian-treaties marijuana marijuana-regulation state-jurisdiction treaty-law Does the Controlled Substances Act preempt State consent to use, possession, cultivation, processing, transportation, and sale of marijuana and any of…
22-6251 Onofre Tommy Serrano v. California California Denied IFP appellate-procedure appointment-of-counsel civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review medical-treatment reasonable-time-to-consult right-to-counsel Whether the court has a prompt duty to appoint counsel once indigency attaches
22-6256 Robert Gospodareck v. Alabama Alabama Denied Response WaivedIFP alabama-law assisted-suicide constitutional-law criminal-law murder-for-hire retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation When Alabama first enacted Assisted Suicide legislation in 2017 which specifically provided that it amended existing law and also created a new crime,…
22-6261 Damar D. Ruffin v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum Whether a special verdict is required to have confidence that the jury has made the finding of drug quantity that allows a sentence beyond the default…
22-6263 Terrence Terrell Moore v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law agency-decision circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-standards standing takings Whether the Supreme Court failed to address the decision of Magistrate Judge Payne and because the Supreme Court did not address this issue, the petit…
22-6269 Ronald W. Telepo v. Leroy Ferguson, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP anonymity civil-rights due-process free-speech internet social-media Does the First Amendment protect the right to engage in anonymous online speech?
22-6270 Charles H. Carter v. Gardaworld Security Services-US, et al. Maryland Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction pro-hac-vice removal removal-procedure standing unauthorized-practice-of-law Whether the unauthorized practice of law by an out-of-state attorney, including the removal of a case to federal court without proper authorization, w…
22-6271 Courtney Green v. Midwest Genealogy Center Eighth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights cyber-stalking cybersecurity data-disclosure electronic-communications electronic-communications-privacy-act invasion-of-privacy personal-information-breach privacy stored-communications-act unfair-business-practices Whether these actions repeated in sequence over a course of time support claims of improper use of company software to carry out direct violations of …
22-6272 Courtney Green v. Kansas City Public Library, Trails West Branch Eighth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights cyber-stalking cybersecurity data-protection defamation electronic-communications invasion-of-privacy personal-information-disclosure privacy privacy-violation unfair-business-practices Whether these actions repeated in sequence over a course of time support claims of improper use of company software to carry out direct violations of …
22-6273 Courtney Green v. Kansas City Public Library, Waldo Branch Eighth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights cyber-stalking cybersecurity electronic-communications-privacy electronic-communications-privacy-act information-security invasion-of-privacy personal-information-disclosure privacy stored-communications-act unfair-business-practices Whether these actions repeated in sequence over a course of time support claims of improper use of company software to carry out direct violations of …
22-6275 Dalton Alonzo Dixon v. North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP 13th-amendment citizenship civil-rights consent constitutional-rights due-process government-labor-program government-program involuntary-servitude thirteenth-amendment Whether the statutory presumption of consent when participating in a government program violates the Thirteenth Amendment's prohibition on slavery and…
22-6276 Lester S. Barney v. Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2254d faretta-right faretta-v-california habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review pro-se-representation self-representation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the state court unreasonably determined that Lester S. Barney did not clearly and unequivocally assert his right to proceed pro se
22-6278 Daniel Patrick Degoto v. William S. Bohrer, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-proceedings due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-challenge legal-representation lower-court-decision prison-conditions standing supreme-court Whether the courts have properly considered the legal issues and procedures involved in DEETO cases, including illegal detention, conviction, and exte…
22-6279 Alex Duncan v. Jennifer R. Bartone, et al. Ohio Denied IFP accessibility ada civil-rights disability due-process equal-protection Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was instituted with the purpose of delivering an 'equal future' for all, when in reality some indivi…
22-6280 Jose Adolpho Castillo v. Texas Texas Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process hearsay-testimony ineffective-assistance prejudice right-to-counsel standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas has made the standard articulated by this Court in Strickland v. Washington so malleable that Stricklan…
22-6282 Ileen Cain v. Mercy College, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights cybercrime department-of-education due-process free-speech higher-education sexual-assault title-ix vawa-reauthorization violence-against-women Whether the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act 2022 Sec 1401 1309 and the Department of Education clause that mandate institutions of higher e…
22-6283 James R. Turner v. Federal Aviation Administration, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-procedure due-process equitable-tolling jurisdiction-dismissal psychiatric-disability standing statute-of-limitations Whether the United States Court of Appeals was justified by DISMISSING Petitioner's appeal for lack of jurisdiction
22-6284 Bryan M. Espinoza v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bell-v-hood bivens-action bivens-doctrine constitutional-rights davis-v-passman federal-tort-claims-act fourth-amendment obstruction-of-justice whistleblower-protection whistleblower-protection-act What is the proper cause of action under Bivens for a violation of the Fourth Amendment?
22-6285 In Re Jason D. Fisher Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte-order ex-parte-orders in-forma-pauperis motion-practice standing temporary-protection-order Is 'permission based motion practice' legal or 'negative gatekeeping' legal?
22-6288 Mangwiro Sadiki-Yisrael v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP base-offense-level first-degree-murder guilty-plea mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states rico-conspiracy sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-max Whether the government must prove a defendant's mens rea and knowledge of first-degree murder to establish the statutory max and base offense level un…
22-6290 Bennie Mitchell v. Levern Cohen, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit erred in finding the publisher met the legal standard for standing
22-6292 Ryan L. Bessert v. Wisconsin Wisconsin Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process maryland-v-craig ohio-v-roberts two-way-video witness-testimony Does testimony taken using two-way video violate the Confrontation Clause?
22-6293 Dkyle Jamal Bridges v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment automobile-exception confrontation-clause confrontation-right fourth-amendment franks-hearing plain-view sentencing-factors sex-trafficking testimonial-hearsay Did the automobile exception to the Fourth Amendment justify the warrantless search of Petitioner's vehicle?
22-6294 Keith Strom v. Douglas Mitchell, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP child-support due-process family-law parent-child-relationships parental-rights poverty state-intervention state-involvement welfare-interests Should the State be allowed to impose child support payments that result in unavoidable poverty and severely damaged child-parent relationships?
22-6295 Jamisi Jermaine Calloway v. M. Martel, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP access-to-courts ada-discrimination civil-rights constitutional-rights continuing-violation-doctrine disability-rights due-process indigent-prisoner-rights legal-assistance pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation section-1983 When should a total disabled incarcerated indigent prisoner be appointed legal assistant in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 case?
22-6296 Martin A. Lewis v. Gary Miniard, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP castro-claim civil-procedure due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-rule-civil-procedure-60 habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rose-v-lundy rule-60 strickland-v-washington united-states-v-castro Whether Petitioner Lewis' habaas petition should be re-opened
22-6297 Kevin W. Malone v. Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-ethics sixth-amendment trial-bias Does the trial counsel's fraudulent behavior and conflict of interest violate the Petitioner's 6th & 14th Amendment right to conflict free counsel?
22-6298 Antoinne Lee Washington v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-of-action equitable-tolling failure-to-state-a-claim habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings heck-doctrine legal-malpractice statute-of-limitations May a legal malpractice cause of action be dismissed for a failure to state a claim, in pursuant to the 'Heck Doctrine' (Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 47…
22-6299 Judith Yigal, et vir, on Behalf of Their Minor Child, R. Y. v. Julia A. Butler, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP administrative-discrimination brandenburg-v-ohio child-trafficking civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process family-separation free-speech government-speech racketeering Does the targeting of a specific child, mother, father, and Jewish family and manipulating government authority to harm the well-adjusted child (with …
22-630 Kristen Behrens, et al. v. Arconic, Inc., et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived american-corporation civil-rights due-process forum-non-conveniens piper-aircraft-v-reyno punitive-damages Should this Court extend its holding in Piper Aircraft Co. v. Reyno, 454 U.S. 235 (1981) and hold that where a foreign plaintiff has made a well-suppo…
22-6301 Relonzo Phillips v. Melody M. Maddox, Sheriff, DeKalb County, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP bad-faith-prosecution civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-procedure due-process irreparable-injury probable-cause standing state-prosecution younger-doctrine Whether a state criminal prosecution brought in bad faith satisfies the requirement of irreparable injury to enjoin state proceedings
22-6303 Steven Riad Jalloul v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the language in a defendant's plea agreement requiring the defendant to pay 'whatever restitution is ordered' is sufficiently specific to cons…
22-6304 Lanny Marvin Bush v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP brady-violation constitutional-rights custody custody-interrogation due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation law-enforcement-procedure right-to-counsel Was petitioner in custody when interrogated?
22-6306 Marion Joseph Hare v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-force borden-v-united-states causation-of-injury circuit-split criminal-statute force-clause sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines violent-force Whether a statute that only requires causation-of-injury and not the affirmative application of force satisfies the violent-force requirement?
22-6307 John Homer Legros, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-law drug-offense federal-jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether 'Conspiracy' to Commit a Crime is a Controlled Substance Offense as defined under the United States Sentencing Guidelines Section §4B1.2
22-6308 Alberto Mendoza-Espinoza v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-precedent overrule sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-6309 Uriel Mora-Mendez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP case-jurisdiction constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-6311 Massey L. Allen, Jr. v. Nebraska Nebraska Denied IFP criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment jackson-v-virginia miranda-rights post-miranda-silence reasonable-doubt standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether there was sufficient evidence to convict under Jackson-v-Virginia
22-6312 Kristian Jones v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment hotel-guest hotel-guest-rights privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure standing Whether there is a reasonable expectation of privacy in the hotel room of a non-registered guest
22-6313 Edward Scanlon, IV v. Valerie Lawson, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process institutional-abuse juvenile-detention new-jersey-civil-rights-act statute-of-limitations supplemental-jurisdiction Whether the courts below should have declined supplemental jurisdiction on remaining New Jersey Civil Rights Act (NJCRA) claims regarding a more liber…
22-6314 Ramiro Leal v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights congressional-authority constitutional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-statute 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))
22-6315 Iklas Richard Davis v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federalism felon-in-possession rehaif-v-united-states scienter supreme-court-precedent Does the Third Circuit's presumption that 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) defendants knew of their prohibiting status conflict with Rehaif?
22-6316 Kalvin Walker v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are automatically rendered harmless by a district court's statement that the correctness of th…
22-6317 Normando Eligio Esquivel-Ontiveros v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP case-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-6318 Eduardo Ocegueda-Ruiz v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Does a person possess a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A), when the person receives a…
22-6320 Mausean Carter v. Corizon Health, Inc. Maryland Denied IFP actual-innocence burden-of-proof civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment evidence gross-negligence habeas-corpus medical-evidence medical-treatment successive-petition Whether the lower courts erred in holding that the petitioner did not meet the burden of establishing the respondents' deliberate indifference in viol…
22-6321 Perry Taylor Armstrong v. Colorado Colorado Denied IFP case-determination civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fancrim-fabulet federal-courts legal-application mercer-test standing takings Question not identified
22-6322 Jaame Amun Re El v. FNU Melanson, et al. First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech inmate-rights prison-regulations special-mail standing statutory-law Is the constitution the law of the land?
22-6323 Luis R. Figueroa-Gonzalez v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circumstantial-evidence criminal-law evidence firearm-alteration firearms knowledge-inference machine-gun mens-rea statutory-definition statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether the presence of a visible alteration in a seized firearm is sufficient to satisfy the government's burden to prove that the defendant knew of …
22-6324 Matthew Ruben Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion Bureau-of-Prisons civil-procedure discretionary-review extraordinary-and-compelling-reason medical-conditions pandemic pandemic-impact sentence-modification statutory-interpretation Sentence-modification-under-3582(c)(1)(A)
22-6325 Travis Ray Thompson v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-grievance civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-prison due-process due-process-protections exhaustion exhaustion-requirement imminent-danger-exception plra prison prison-litigation-reform-act Whether the Eastern District abused its discretion finding Petitioner was not entitled to an 'imminent danger' exception to the PLRA, 42 USC § 1997e(a…
22-6326 Mark A. White v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation due-process illegal-detention judicial-error mcmillan-v-pennsylvania sentencing-factors sixth-amendment substantive-due-process Whether the Justices of the 1986 Supreme Court violated the substantive due process rights, protection and guarantees of the petitioner and American c…
22-6327 Anthony Naquan West v. Texas Texas Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-review conviction-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus state-court state-courts Whether the state Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas' adjudication denying Petitioner's writ of Habeas Corpus was contrary to or involved an unreasona…
22-6329 Phosavan Khamnivong v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment bodily-injury due-process fifth-amendment firearm-enhancement jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment is violated when courts impose sentences that, but for a judge-found fact, would be reversed for substantive unreasonablen…
22-6330 Billy Ray Jackson v. Bryan Daniel, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-review civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment individual-capacity liberty property section-1983 sovereign-immunity state-action unemployment-benefits Whether petitioner Billy Ray Jackson's 42 U.S.C. 1983 complaint states a claim against the respondent state officials under color of state law
22-6331 Lance Green v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-confrontation confrontation-clause daubert dna-evidence due-process firearm-possession sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act 6th-amendment-confrontation,due-process,speedy-trial-act,6th-amendment,daubert,dna-evidence
22-6333 N. P. v. Vermont, et al. Vermont Denied Response WaivedIFP best-interests child-welfare due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment parental-rights santosky-standard unfitness Whether Vermont's parental rights termination standards violate the Fourteenth Amendment
22-6334 Joey Faught v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law detainer due-process federal-custody interstate-agreement interstate-agreement-on-detainers notice prisoner-rights sixth-circuit Was Petitioner's letter to the U.S. District Court Clerk sufficient to invoke the Interstate Agreement on Detainers
22-6335 Timothy Michael Unzueta v. Texas Texas Denied IFP clear-error criminal-justice criminal-procedure date-range due-process grand-jury legal-procedure material-element void-conviction Is it not clear error to allow a void conviction to continue (i.e., to not be vacated) knowing that a material (date-range essential) element was impr…
22-6337 Lonnie Charles Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a…
22-6339 Derek James Jones v. State Bar of California California Denied IFP attorney-discipline brady-v-maryland due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment giglio-v-united-states presumption-of-innocence state-bar-court willner-v-committee-on-character-and-fitness Whether the State of California violated Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment guarantees of due process
22-6340 Ramon Simpson v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting criminal-liability custodial-interrogation death-penalty fifth-amendment jury-instructions kidnapping miranda-rights Does a conviction for aiding and abetting kidnapping resulting in death require proof of intent or advance knowledge of death?
22-6341 Angela Schmid v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection prosecutorial-misconduct selective-prosecution vindictive-prosecution Whether the district court erred in denying the defendant's motion to dismiss the indictment on the grounds of selective prosecution and vindictive pr…
22-6343 Rossen Iossifov v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bitcoin-exchange criminal-venue due-process extradition extraterritorial-jurisdiction money-laundering racketeering venue wire-fraud Jurisdictional-grounds-for-SCOTUS-review
22-6344 Bryshun Genard Furlow v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense criminal-procedure drug-conviction fourth-circuit mandate-rule prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously refused to apply its intervening case law to Furlow's case, incorrectly applying the mandate rule
22-6345 Jeffrey Johnson v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-cfr-1308.11 career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-analogue drug-classification motion-to-suppress schedule-1 search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing seventh-circuit Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly allowed the District Court's Determination that Furanyl fentanyl was a 'controlled substance …
22-6347 Manuel Alejandro Sanchez v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-usc-1229 bastide-hernandez-v-united-states due-process immigration-court-jurisdiction immigration-law nix-chaves-v-barr notice-to-appear pereira-v-sessions removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the United States' initiating removal proceedings against a noncitizen with a 'Notice to Appear' that fails to include the date and time of th…
22-6348 Douglas James Schneider v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error procedural-violation rule-11 substantial-rights waiver Whether the court of appeals erred in holding the failure to object to the violation of Rule 11(c)(1) provides dispositive evidence that the violation…
22-6350 Raul Alvarez v. New York New York Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights court-objection criminal-defense criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-strategy Must a client object in open court to invoke their Sixth Amendment right to maintain actual innocence as the objective of their defense?
22-6351 Shane Webster Upchurch v. Wastequip, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure discovery discovery-rights jurisdiction-issue pro-se pro-se-plaintiff retaliatory-discharge summary-judgment workers-compensation Whether it was error to grant summary judgment to the defendant where the pro se plaintiff was not given any opportunity to engage in discovery
22-6352 Anson Paape v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-liability qualified-immunity Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause provides government officials with qualified immunity from liability for violating an individual…
22-6353 Furlonzo R. Moran v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial juror-disqualification jury-selection social-media-evidence trial-court-discretion Is it unconstitutional to disqualify a juror from service without just cause?
22-6354 Thomas J. McNulty v. Rose Olivo, et al. Florida Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process estate-law felony-conviction felony-disenfranchisement first-amendment inheritance pro-se-litigation probate-procedure standing Whether a lawful sole heir/beneficiary to an interstate estate, who is a convicted felon, awaiting the appointment of a personal representative, would…
22-6355 Jess Richard Smith v. Sgt. Ellis, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts federal-procedure free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief standing Whether Khe Uuth Circo tks (0-722, ORDER Granting CVeseevdeniis _ Metion TO Reveke TH Comme
22-6356 Tyler Nees v. Oregon Oregon Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process evidence federal-review habeas-corpus hearsay independent-state-ground procedural-default sixth-amendment state-court Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment prohibits the admission of testimonial hearsay evidence without an opportunity for cross-exami…
22-6357 Clifton Raye v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel Was Petitioner's rights under 6th Amendment to the United States Constitution violated when trial counsel was ineffective?
22-6358 Bernard Thomas Edmond v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 924(c)(3) armed-career-criminal-act due-process hobbs-act johnson-v-united-states predicate-offense residual-clause sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously decided that the petitioner's predicate offense for his Sec. 924(c) is the conspiracy charge an…
22-6359 Leonid Gershman v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review collateral-consequence conspiracy-charges criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy merger plain-error sentencing sentencing-multiplicity Isn't it plain error for a court to impose multiple punishments for multiple counts of conviction that for double jeopardy purposes amount to the same…
22-6362 Carlos Santana R. Garcia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel unreasonable-determination Did the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas and the U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas San Angelo Division err in deciding the merits of Pe…
22-6363 Dawud Canaan Sturrup Gabriel v. Trans Am Trucking Company Tenth Circuit Denied IFP certiorari circuit-court civil-procedure due-process federal-law judicial-proceedings standing supervisory-authority supreme-court-review Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit departed from the accepted course of judicial proceedings
22-6365 Ronald E. Cook v. Tom Watson, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP appeals constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-exclusion fair-trial jurisdiction right-to-present-defense When can a criminal indictment be changed without due process
22-6367 Randall Bernard Allen v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al Ninth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-action individual-rights rule-of-law standing takings Where government, state and city administrations are regulators, can The Rule of Law, and U.S.Constitutional rights be abandoned for those administrat…
22-6368 Christopher J. Cox v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence fabricated-evidence fair-trial false-witnesses fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process state-circuit-court Whether a defendant's procedural due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment have been violated
22-6370 Adam Limbrick v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-testimony habeas-corpus ninth-circuit standing whether-the-court-of-appeals-for-the-ninth-circuit-rendered-a-decision-in-conflict-with-controlling-precedent-of-the-united-states-supreme-court
22-6371 Michael Jarrow v. Ashly Nunnery Fifth Circuit Denied IFP fifth-amendment just-compensation physical-appropriation private-property public-use takings-clause Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment requires the government to pay just compensation when it physically appropriates private property fo…
22-6372 Jose Felipe Cardenas-Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
22-6374 Damian Perry v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-protection criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process first-circuit same-offense sentencing-enhancement successive-punishments Has the First Circuit impermissibly narrowed the application of Double Jeopardy Clause of the United States Constitution therefore removing any practi…
22-6377 Thaddeus Chaylon Martin v. Florida Florida Denied IFP civil-rights corrections criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction prison-credits retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-credits Whether the court had jurisdiction to re-sentence the petitioner to 18 years after initially sentencing him to 10 years
22-6378 Angela Dee Garges v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP dwelling-search fourth-amendment law-enforcement maryland-v-buie probable-cause protective-sweep reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure Whether the Eighth Circuit Court's determination that law enforcement officers may search an entire dwelling without probable cause or reasonable susp…
22-6379 Leetavious Gaines v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release defendant-motion district-court-discretion first-step-act policy-statement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether Section 1B1.13 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines is an 'applicable' policy statement that binds the district court in considering a d…
22-6380 Joseph Bergeron v. Paul Schnell, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Corrections, et al. Minnesota Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-duty administrative-law due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-review legal-discretion rule-of-law separation-of-powers state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation Can Minnesota State Courts ignore issues presented to it by a party, circumvent the rule of law to effectuate a clearly biased opinion?
22-6381 Teresa Young v. Mary Seymour, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-abuse civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection healthcare-access libel-slander military-retaliation retaliation Were the Plaintiff's Constitutional rights violated by the Defendants?
22-6383 James T. Woo v. Colorado Colorado Denied IFP case-files civil-rights discovery discovery-access due-process judicial-discretion post-conviction post-conviction-claims pro-se pro-se-defendant protective-order Whether the district court improperly misused a protective order to deprive a pro se defendant of access to materials outside the scope of the order a…
22-6384 Peter Gakuba v. Larry Henderson, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment administrative-remedies civil-rights constitutional-violations deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment kosher-meal-requirements prisoner-rights Whether the Eighth Amendment requires prison officials to accommodate a prisoner's serious medical needs, including a life-threatening food allergy, a…
22-6385 Peter Gakuba v. Rob Jeffreys Seventh Circuit Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts first-amendment-retaliation free-speech habeas habeas-corpus sanctions standing Whether the USCA-7's imposition of a $500 sanction and bar from filing future habeas petitions against Gakuba constitutes a First Amendment retaliatio…
22-6387 Kenakil Gibson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process fair-presentation federal-claim federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jackson-standard procedural-default standing state-court state-court-proceedings Does state prisoner fairly present federal nature of his claim on direct appeal
22-6388 Cornelius L. Jones v. Illinois Illinois Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether a defendant's fundamental right to equal protection of the laws was infringed
22-6390 Kristopher M. Voyles v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conditions due-process incarceration mental-health sex-offender Is the application of onerous sex offender conditions justified when the government agrees it has no circumstantial evidence of any inappropriate sexu…
22-6392 Adam Tello v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect legal-correction sentencing sentencing-error standing strickland-standard Whether a jurisdictional defective sentence must be noticed, heard, adjudicated and legally corrected at any time, whether on appeal or any other moti…
22-6393 Xavier Milton Earquhart v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review mandate-rule motion-to-dismiss sixth-amendment standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the court have an obligation to determine whether subject matter jurisdiction exists as a preliminary matter?
22-6394 Van Raymond Brollini v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review conflicting-evidence credibility-of-witnesses evidence-preclusion harmless-error jury-trial sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-jury-trial tax-prosecution willfulness Whether the Ninth Circuit's harmless-error analysis is consistent with Supreme Court precedent
22-6395 Bryan Wolfe v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process mental-condition mental-health multi-offense-adjustment notice racial-animus rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-guidelines upward-departure Was there adequate notice of a departure the night before sentencing, as to allow Wolfe a fair opportunity to rebut the claims that increased his sent…
22-6399 Kerry Simpson v. Tom Watson, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process judicial-reasoning legal-standard manifest-weight prejudice prejudice-standard standard-of-review Did the Federal Appellate Court Apply the Correct Standard in the Determination of Prejudice?
22-640 David Wellington v. Fernando Daza, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived 1st-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights content-seizure first-amendment fourth-amendment overbreadth qualified-immunity search-warrant tax-code Is a search warrant that authorizes a search for violations of the entire federal tax code (26 U.S.C. §7201), plus any other numerous codes and laws f…
22-6400 José L. Canales-Cancel v. United States, et al. First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction first-amendment privacy-and-1st-amendment statutory-interpretation jurisdiction-under-28-usc-1331
22-6404 Paul Rivera v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP competency constitutional-rights fair-trial indiana-v-edwards mental-illness pro-se-representation self-representation trial-competency Whether a defendant's constitutional right to a fair trial imposes upon trial courts a duty of inquiry to determine whether a defendant is competent t…
22-6405 David Lee Smith, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Mary Julia Hook v. United States Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-dismissal civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-taking poverty sanctions takings Whether the Federal Circuit grossly abused its discretion in dismissing an appeal as frivolous
22-6408 Samuel Lawrence Wood v. Mike Brown, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-review federal-sentencing habeas-corpus sentencing state-prisoner state-sentencing statutory-authority Whether a state court can impose a sentence to commence at the completion of a federal sentence in the absence of statutory authority
22-6412 Nicholas Conlan v. Costco Wholesale Corporation Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act disability-accommodation employment-discrimination interactive-process jury-trial pretext reasonable-accommodation service-animal service-dog workplace-accommodation Did Costco violate the Americans with Disabilities Amendment Act by terminating the interactive process with ambiguities they had and not directly eng…
22-6413 Rajul Ruhbayan v. Rebecca Beach Smith, Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP christopher-v-harbury civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-circuit jury-trial sentencing-finality sixth-amendment supervisory-powers Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and four Defendant judges' ongoing 17 years' cover up or violations of Petitioner's prospective denial of …
22-6414 Keith Antonio Barnett v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-testimony jury-instruction theory-of-defense Whether the Confrontation Clause was violated when prosecutors relied, exclusively, on hearsay testimony to convict the petitioner?
22-6415 Richard Bethely v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
22-6416 Nicholas Lee Blair v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 civil-procedure dismissal dismissal-without-prejudice federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus new-evidence rule-60(b) rule-60b time-bar Whether a Petitioner can utilize a motion under Rule 60(b) Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, or similar vehicle, to overcome a dismissal without preju…
22-6417 Eric C. Burgie v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure claim-construction criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation racial-discrimination standing statute-of-limitations tolling Whether the district court abused its discretion in denying Mr. Burgie's Rule 60(b) motion and appointment of counsel
22-6418 Christopher Brian Cosimano v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process eleventh-circuit federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing first-degree-murder omission-liability statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred by finding that Florida's First-Degree Premeditated Murder Statute is categorically a crime of violence for purpose…
22-6419 Brian Wright v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP asset-forfeiture cash-seizure civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-procedure property-rights rule-41g Should Mr. Wright be allowed a return of his seized cash?
22-6420 Rodney Deangelo Jordan v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-power felon-possession firearms-regulation police-power statutory-interpretation Whether Congress exceeded its authority in enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g))
22-6421 Sergio Garcia-Lara v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report sentencing unreliable-evidence Whether a district court may avoid reversal for considering unreliable information by avoiding express mention of the information, or whether parties …
22-6422 Richard Bernard Nichols v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights congressional-authority constitutional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute felon-rights firearm-possession Whether Congress exceeded its authority in enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g))
22-6423 Michael Deshawn Homer v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-authority criminal-law felon-in-possession firearms police-power Whether Congress exceeded its authority in enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g))
22-6424 Trevis Thompson v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction criminal-defendant deliberation-misconduct external-information federal-rule-of-evidence-606(b) harmless-error jury-bias post-conviction-proceeding sixth-amendment unbiased-jury Where deliberating jurors receive external information that a criminal defendant had committed prior bad acts, does the dissemination of such informat…
22-6425 Mirwais Mohamadi v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-default standard-of-review Did The Court Of Appeals Err In Denying A Certificate Of Appealability?
22-6426 Delano Marco Medina v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel plea-agreement right-to-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial strickland-standard Question not identified
22-6427 Denver Sangster v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-vs-maryland confidential-informant confrontation-clause criminal-procedure good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant Whether the lower courts erred in deciding probable cause, the confrontation clause concerning search and seizures and/or requirements of a warrant, w…
22-6428 Jermaine Scott v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability certiorari-standard circuit-court-review civil-rights district-court due-process federal-habeas judicial-discretion procedural-standard standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals abused its discretion in denying petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability
22-6429 Robert McKenna v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a appellate-review criminal-history district-court-discretion due-process public-safety sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-reasonableness Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the defendant's sentence was procedurally and substantively reasonable under 18 USC §…
22-643 Jason Devon Lenoir v. Lynn Guyer, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability faretta-hearing fourteenth-amendment pro-se-representation psychological-evaluation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver-of-counsel Is a criminal defendant entitled to a COA when he has demonstrated and made a substantial showing that his rights were denied under the Sixth and Four…
22-6432 Edward Sanchez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault categorical-approach circuit-split federal-sentencing generic-offense model-penal-code taylor-v-united-states Whether the Fifth Circuit's exclusive reliance on the MPC misapplies the categorical approach announced by this Court in Taylor v. United States, 495 …
22-6433 Ricky Escobedo v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege conflict-of-interest fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Violation of attorney-client privilege and right to effective assistance of counsel
22-6434 Elvis Harold Reyes v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington criminal-restitution fifth-amendment jury-determination restitution sentencing-fact sixth-amendment southern-union-co-v-united-states Whether the Sixth and Fifth Amendments are violated by the imposition of restitution based on the sentencing judge's determination of a fact (other th…
22-6437 Alan Singleton v. Tom Watson, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial hearsay hearsay-testimony ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel Did counsel provide ineffective assistance?
22-6439 Ramon Gonzalez Dominguez v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
22-644 Anthony Lomax v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived auer-deference career-offender career-offender-enhancement circuit-split crime-of-violence judicial-interpretation kisor-v-wilkie seminole-rock sentencing-guidelines Whether courts must determine if a sentencing guideline is ambiguous before deferring to the Sentencing Commission's commentary
22-6440 Damian Thomas v. Delaware Delaware Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment perjured-testimony post-conviction post-conviction-relief procedural-bar prosecutorial-misconduct Was petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment right to due process of law violated when his conviction was obtained through the use of perjured testimony and …
22-6441 James D. Dayvault v. Kansas Kansas Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights consensual-encounter custody detention due-process family-law fourth-amendment law-enforcement photography reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard seizure Did the Kansas Court of Appeals err when it affirmed the trial court's denying custody for the purposes of Ananda, and did the court err by applying t…
22-6442 Brennan Thomas Baker v. Wyoming Wyoming Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion cell-phone-recording criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-abuse-of-discretion fourth-amendment legal-admissibility surveillance surveillance-footage witness-testimony Did the district court abuse its discretion in admitting the state's cell phone recording of surveillance footage?
22-6443 Daquan Madrid Pridgen v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation structural-error Whether the district court committed structural error by finding that the sentence for a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(e) should be 10 years to life i…
22-6444 Stephen Duane Burgess v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP crime-of-violence criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-sentencing federal-statute second-degree-murder sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether a conviction for federal 'second degree murder' under 18 U.S.C. § 1(a) is a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)
22-6451 Dwayne Edmond Wilson v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process incarceration judicial-delay liberty speedy-trial Whether the Sixth Amendment's Speedy Trial Right is violated when a defendant is incarcerated for 56 months without a trial
22-6453 Mario Torres v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification habeas-corpus plea-agreement plea-bargain post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sentencing Whether Petitioner can withdraw his plea after district attorney reneged on the plea bargain
22-6454 Christine Chang v. Ezery Beauchamp, Captain and Commander for California Highway Patrol, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 abuse-of-discretion civil-rights dismissal dismissal-with-prejudice due-process fourteenth-amendment ninth-circuit pro-se section-1983 Whether the Ninth Circuit violates Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process rights
22-6456 Paul D. Weldon v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment attorney-general-authorization due-process irs jurisdictional-challenge tax-assessment tax-collection third-party-filing third-party-filings Whether the IRS violated the petitioner's procedural due process rights in the tax collection and assessment process
22-6457 Roberto Antoine Darden, aka Dizz-e, aka Javon v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-issues constitutional-law district-court-assessment due-process federal-courts judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-rights standing Whether the district court's assessment of petitioner's constitutional claims are debatable or wrong?
22-6459 Lenroy McLean v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure government-misconduct government-review procedural-motion section-2255 section-3504 statutory-interpretation wiretapping Whether the Fed.R.Civ.P. 60 procedure qualifies as a Proceeding under 18 U.S.C. § 3504(a)(1)
22-646 Sergey Pustelnik, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission Second Circuit Denied Response Waived artificiality fraud intent legal-standard market-manipulation scienter securities-exchange-act securities-fraud securities-regulation Whether scienter alone may satisfy the traditionally separate artificiality requirement to establish market manipulation?
22-6462 Jerome K. Ta'afulisia v. Washington Washington Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington evidence-creation law-enforcement-solicitation michigan-v-bryant ohio-v-clark police-investigation primary-purpose-test sixth-amendment testimonial-statement Is a statement testimonial for purposes of the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment when the speaker talks with a trusted family member who is …
22-6463 Sherman Johnson, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction brady-violation certificate-of-appealability district-court-jurisdiction due-process eighth-circuit-court exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel title-28-usc-2253 title-28-usc-2255 Jurisdiction-to-address-non-adjudicated-claims
22-6466 Derrick Anthony Stewart v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-case criminal-case eighth-circuit-appeal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-precedent predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supervisory-power Whether trial counsel's failure to utilize existing precedent to challenge the application of a sentencing enhancement pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 851 con…
22-6467 Louis Antonio Zayas v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-trial directed-verdict due-process evidence-disclosure harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-conduct Whether the erroneous jury instruction on knowledge requirement constituted harmless error
22-6468 Herbert Isaac Perkins v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act crime-of-violence criminal-law felony-classification hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under the Armed Career Criminal Act
22-6469 In Re Kenneth Crawford, Jr. Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-rights civil-rights constitution constitutional-limits due-process enumerated-powers federal-government jurisdictional-elements legislative-power legislative-powers territorial-jurisdiction Does the Constitution limit the federal government and define the powers of the legislature?
22-6471 Kyle Maurice Parks v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether Appellant was improperly denied a review of ineffective assistance of counsel and correction of errors by the District Court
22-6472 Vincent Paul Melendrez v. Jason Bennett, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defense due-process fifth-amendment self-incrimination sixth-amendment Where the Trial Court's Ruling Compelling the Election of Rights had required a criminal Defendant to waive his Fifth Amendment Constitutional Rights …
22-6477 Claudius English, aka Jay Barnes, aka Brent English v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conviction conviction-challenge due-process dunn-v-united-states fifth-amendment indictment indictment-theory interstate-commerce jury kidnapping-statute Whether the lower courts' affirmance of English's conviction on the basis of a theory not charged in the indictment or argued to the jury and advanced…
22-6479 Felix Agustin Dominguez-Bido, aka Sealed Defendant 1, aka Felix Dominguez v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-usc-1229 due-process illegal-reentry immigration-law niz-chavez-v-garland notice-to-appear pereira-v-sessions removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether the Government may commence removal proceedings by serving a noncitizen with a 'notice to appear' that does not specify the date, time, and pl…
22-6486 Atiq Weston v. Michael Capra, Superintendent, Sing Sing Correctional Facility Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process extraordinary-relief false-evidence false-testimony guilty-plea new-trial newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction Whether the post-conviction, due process violations exposed by false DNA testing on the petitioner's case warrant a new trial
22-6487 Chasity Reanee Orellana v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court due-process jurisdiction post-release-conduct revocation sentencing supervised-release Whether the district court erred by revoking Ms. Orellana's supervised release because its revocation decision relied on conduct that occurred after h…
22-6491 Eric Romero-Lobato v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error due-process eyewitness-identification gatekeeping gatekeeping-function harmless-error law-enforcement reliability reliability-standard suggestive-identification Whether the subsequent in-court identification violated the defendant's due process rights given the district court's failure to conduct its gatekeepi…
22-6493 Robert Keith Kinsey v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit preponderance-of-evidence sentencing supervised-release trial-by-jury Does 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) unconstitutionally deprive federal supervised releasees of the right to trial by jury?
22-6497 Timothy Martin Kendrick v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender categorical-approach criminal-law due-process johnson-ruling residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement Does the struck-down 18 USC 924(e)(2)(B)(ii) residual under Johnson(2015) as applied to ACCA equally apply to Mandatory Guideline USSG§4B1.2(a)(ii) Ca…
22-6501 Michael A. Hagar v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 bracy-v-gramley certificate-of-appealability due-process judicial-misconduct miller-el-v-cockrell procedural-default section-2255 slack-v-mcdaniel speedy-trial Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in not issuing a Certificate of Appealability when the Petitioner met the requirements under 28 U.S.C…
22-6502 Jerry Joseph Higdon, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge procedural-bar sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit is using its procedural bar rules in a manner inconsistent with the United States …
22-6507 In Re Michael Kenny Carter Denied IFP a.e.d.p.a. aedpa civil-rights congressional-authority due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus innocence innocence-claim procedural-barrier writ-suspension Is the A.E.D.P.A. second or successive provision unconstitutionally suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, as applied to incarcerated individuals wh…
22-6509 Roosevelt Mondesir v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP §2254-petition 28-usc-2254 federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation reasonableness-review state-court-decision state-court-decisions wilson-v-sellers Did the 11th U.S. Circuit Court err in interpreting Wilson v. Sellers to allow federal habeas courts to consider justifications not provided by the st…
22-6510 Daniel Marmolejo 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?
22-6513 Jeremy Dale Bartram v. West Virginia West Virginia Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rule fair-trial presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-discretion rule-404(b) uncharged-misconduct Does the prosecution's use of 'uncharged misconduct' under Rule 404(b) strip a criminal defendant of the presumption of innocence?
22-6515 Christopher Raiche v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment first-time-offender grossly-disproportionate life-sentence non-violent-crime sentencing Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against grossly disproportionate prison sentences was triggered by the imposition of a de facto life senten…
22-6519 Thomas Alan Arthur v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-defense defendant-rights due-process evidence-exclusion free-speech harmful-error harmless-error judicial-review miller-test obscenity obscenity-standard Should this Court adopt the Seventh Circuit's rule that where a district court erroneously excludes evidence that makes up the entirety of a defendant…
22-6520 Tiffany Franklin v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-position-of-trust circuit-split criminal-sentencing fiduciary-duty position-of-trust sentencing-enhancement ussg-3b1.3 ussg-guideline vault-teller Whether a two-point enhancement for the abuse of position of trust under USSG § 3B1.3 should apply to a vault teller whose job duties do not rise to t…
22-6521 William Randall Brannan v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP challenge circuit-split civil-procedure preservation-of-issues rule-29 venue Whether a general motion under Rule 29 preserves a challenge to venue
22-6522 Charvez Brooks v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process federal-courts hobbs-act ineffective-assistance interstate-commerce judicial-discretion jury-instructions reasonable-doubt standard-of-proof Does a federal district court possess meaningful discretion to define 'proof beyond a reasonable doubt' in jury instructions?
22-6523 Alfonzo Johnlouis v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-amendment government-action government-actor mail-carrier postal-service search-and-seizure standing unreasonable-search unreasonable-searches warrantless-search Is the warrantless search of a First Class sealed mail Priority package by a United States Postal Service mail carrier during the course and scope of …
22-6524 Barry L. Brookins v. Rajendra Dwivedi Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment medical-procedure state-law Whether the plaintiff's 8th Amendment right against cruel and unusual punishment has been violated through an unlawful surgery performed without the p…
22-6527 William Langley, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c) constitutional-challenge conviction-reversal criminal-procedure due-process factual-innocence firearm-statute guilty-plea plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation Should the court find petitioner's conviction for '924(c) et al. unconstitutional
22-653 Melvin Ray v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived abduction abduction-definition circuit-split criminal-procedure different-location guideline-commentary judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines stinson-v-united-states Whether the failure to follow the commentary's abduction definition engendered a broad circuit split — and if so, do it show that the victims were 'ab…
22-6533 Dustin Naida v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law due-process gun-control public-safety Whether the state's ban on assault weapons violates the Second Amendment
22-6535 Murphy Alex Begay v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment audio-recording civil-procedure constitutional district-court due-process evidence-rules federal-rules-of-evidence rule-106 rule-of-completeness Did the District court violate the Petitioners 14th Amendment right of the Due Process Clause, by denying the introduction of the complete audio recor…
22-6537 Miguel Murillo-Ramos v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-rights civil-procedure corollary-right decision due-process federal-appeal judicial-review legal-remedy procedural-fairness standing Whether, as a matter of due process, the federal right to appeal encompasses a corollary right to a decision
22-6541 Garrett Statler v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law due-process fourteenth-amendment mens-rea sexual-battery state-court-conflict statutory-interpretation Whether Florida's sexual battery statute for acts applicable to adults with no physical force or violence violates the Fourteenth Amendment because it…
22-6542 Warren Douglas Vann v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-misconduct certificate-of-appealability due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-claim procedural-deadline statute-of-limitations Whether equitable tolling applies to § 2255 motion
22-6543 Miguel Angel Mota v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error presentence-report rule-32 structural-error Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's claim under Rule 32(i)(1)(A) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure conflict with the Sixth Ci…
22-6545 Kamil Hakeem Johnson v. R. M. Wolfe, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing-discretion sentencing-options statutory-interpretation Whether the district court had jurisdiction to impose a term-of-years sentence when the statute only provided for death or life imprisonment without p…
22-6547 Kashai Jones v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process illinois-supreme-court judicial-discretion jury-instructions jury-selection legal-principles plain-error trial-court wainwright-v-witt Whether the Illinois Supreme Court's rule requiring trial courts to ensure that each juror understands the principles of People v. Zehr, 103 Ill. 2d 4…
22-6552 Sergio Guerrero v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP ammunition-possession bill-of-rights fourth-amendment lawful-materials probable-cause reasonable-suspicion second-amendment warrantless-arrest Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision is consistent with this Court's precedents on the Fourth Amendment's probable cause standard when suspicion is ba…
22-6556 Lawrence Anderson Fonseca, fka Lawrence Anderson Fonseca-Garcia v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure foreign-national guilty-plea innocence new-evidence plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal post-conviction-relief subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Fonseca should be allowed to withdraw his guilty plea in light of new evidence supporting his claim of innocence
22-656 Jeffrey A. Bentley v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response Waived armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review due-process prior-convictions section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement When a defendant shows on Section 2255 collateral review that a prior conviction is no longer a valid predicate offense under the Armed Career Crimina…
22-6561 Telly Hankton v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause conspiracy-liability criminal-procedure federal-circuit-courts forfeiture-by-wrongdoing sixth-amendment standard-of-proof testimonial-statements What standard of proof is required for the admission of prior testimonial statements under the forfeiture-by-wrongdoing exception to the Confrontation…
22-6562 George S. Schrand, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing Whether the court below erred in denying Petitioner's constitutional claims
22-6563 Jaquain Young v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP complete-defense confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-discretion right-to-present-defense severance witness-recantation Whether the district court erred in excluding witness Tierra Lewis's out-of-court identification of codefendant Esau Ferdinand under FRE 403, thereby …
22-6564 Sohiel Omar Kabir v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split co-conspirator control-over-co-participants criminal-enhancement leader-organizer-enhancement leader-role ninth-circuit second-fourth-sixth-eleventh-dc-circuits sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines Does the aggravating role enhancement for 'leader[s]' or 'organizer[s]' of concerted criminal activity in section 3B1.1(c) of the United States Senten…
22-6567 Pedro Benitez v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-procedure-act civil-procedure government-action judicial-review standing What is the proper standard for determining whether a petitioner has standing to challenge a government action under the Administrative Procedure Act?
22-6568 Duraid Hussein v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection procedural-due-process rehaif-v-united-states sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation Whether the Ninth Circuit denied procedural due process and equal protection by not dismissing an insufficient indictment under circuit precedent
22-6569 Charles Heard v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 9th-circuit california-law categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause implied-malice ninth-circuit second-degree-murder statutory-interpretation Does a VICAR murder conviction based on California second-degree murder constitute a crime of violence?
22-6571 Marcus Wayne Covington v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bond-hearing civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel public-defender sentencing-guidelines sentencing-report standing Whether the Court of Appeals failed to properly consider or address the Court's abuse of discretion
22-6572 Christian Dior Womack v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-offenses due-process fraud-on-the-court government-misrepresentation habeas-corpus judicial-error mandate-recall miscarriage-of-justice plea-bargaining sentencing Does an appellate court's failure to recall its mandate to amend its opinion — that is predicated on the government's legal argument of inaccurate con…
22-6573 Delamon A. Marshall v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause constitutional-law domestic-violence firearm-possession statutory-interpretation violent-felony Does a prior conviction for domestic violence qualify as a violent felony under the ACCA?
22-6581 John Krasley v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure defendant's-other-bad-acts evidence-rule federal-rules-of-evidence propensity-evidence rule-404(b) third-party-acts Whether Rule 404(b) applies to all 'person[s],' as the Rule explicitly provides, or instead only to a defendant's other bad acts or crimes, and not th…
22-6586 Reginald Daushawn Earl Tate v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brandishing criminal-procedure firearm-brandishing fourth-circuit hobbs-act rule-11 sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the United States Court of Appeals properly affirmed the trial court's improper sentencing of the defendant pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(1)(A…
22-6591 Alecia Trapps v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law Whether federal law or state law governs what constitutes a 'controlled substance offense' under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.1(a)
22-6592 James Stacey Harber v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining section-2255 sentencing Was Mr. Harber denied the effective-assistance-of-counsel,due-process,criminal-procedure,habeas-corpus,certificate-of-appealability,sentencing
22-6596 Laverne C. Henderson v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review precedent standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit violated Henderson's rights
22-6597 Jeremiah S. Farmer v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-conflict civil-rights drug-conspiracy due-process jurisdictional-requirement racketeering sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-authority supreme-court-precedent Whether the District Court lacked statutory authority under 18 U.S.C. 1962(c) if Congress intended for a RICO conspiracy to be complete when reached, …
22-6601 Rick Benavides v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process entrapment evidence-admissibility government-inducement law-enforcement-conduct predisposition social-media Whether predisposition to defeat an entrapment defense may be proved by the government using statements found on Petitioner's phone that were created …
22-6602 Matthew C. Eisenmann v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act sentencing Whether the district court abused its discretion in denying Everman's First Step Act motion for compassionate release
22-6603 Miguel Angel Valencia-Sandoval v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-interpretation 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…
22-6606 Henry Zabala-Zorilla v. Joseph Terra, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP allen-charge civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction reversible-error supplemental-instruction Does the Fourteenth Amendment equal protection laws require a state judge be found to commit reversible error to give a supplemental charge or an 'All…
22-6607 Billy Joe Wolfe, Jr. v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa congress-power congressional-power constitutional-law due-process federal-courts indian-affairs subject-matter-jurisdiction treaty-interpretation treaty-rights Whether the time of filing limitations of Antiterrorism Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) were intended by Congress to prevent consideration of lack…
22-6609 James D. Thomas v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 brady-violation due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals violate petitioner's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment right by denying petitioners 28 USC § 2255 motion to vacate…
22-6610 Nicodemo S. Scarfo v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure attorney-withdrawal civil-procedure court-appointed-counsel court-appointment due-process en-banc-petition legal-remedy petition-for-certiorari standing withdrawal-of-counsel What remedy is available for petitioner, where court appointed attorney is granted withdrawal from filing a petition for certiorari, when the attorney…
22-6611 Joseph P. Counts v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights cohen-collateral-order due-process jurisdictional-issue legal-counsel notice-of-appeal pro-se standing timeliness urgent-matters Whether district courts must rule on pro se motions regardless of representation
22-6614 Omar Kashaka Taylor v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP ambiguous-term criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process jury-instruction legal-principles statutory-interpretation Whether a jury instruction effectively directing a Whether an overly broad interpretation of an ambiguous term in a criminal statute carrying severe penalties complies with established principles of st…
22-6615 Robert Jim v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility evidence-presentation fair-trial improper-evidence reasonable-doubt sentencing trial-fairness Whether the court violated Jim's constitutional rights to due process and a fair trial by allowing improper evidence and preventing him from presentin…
22-6616 Brian Cota v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process notice plea-bargaining plea-negotiation sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release Whether the court of appeals erred by concluding that Mr. Cota can be subject to a life time of supervised release, and thereby a lifetime of revocati…
22-6617 Winsloe Duhaney v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy implied-acquittal statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Does an appellate court violate Double Jeopardy when it remands a case for the trial court to enter alternative findings of fact and conclusions of la…
22-6623 Jarmell Raymond Mayweather v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment franks-violation informant-falsification prosecutorial-misconduct search-warrant Whether the government omission of evidence that was contrast affiant's Search Warrant Application (SWA) statements constituted a Brady and Franks vio…
22-6624 Daniel Ray Loyd v. Neil McDowell, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder felony-murder-rule ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prejudice right-to-counsel state-law-error Whether trial counsel was ineffective by conceding Mr. Loyd's guilt of all charges, including robbery in a felony murder case
22-6625 Ledger Lynn Hammonds, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-amendment fourth-circuit franks-hearing franks-v-delaware judicial-review material-omissions preliminary-showing probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-challenge Whether the proper test for determining a preliminary showing for a Franks hearing has been met when analyzing material omissions, and whether the Fou…
22-6626 Jonathan Jefferson Ferris v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-authority due-process federal-sentencing judicial-authority judicial-delegation probation-officer sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers supervised-release Does Standard Condition 12 unconstitutionally delegate judicial authority to the probation officer?
22-6627 Kenneth Mobley v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction loss-calculation restitution restitution-order sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness Was Mr. Mobley's sentence procedurally and substantively unreasonable
22-6628 Johnell Lewis Britton, Sr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure fact-specific-reasons federal-sentencing judicial-discretion non-guidelines-sentences procedural-error reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether district courts are required to articulate fact-specific reasons for imposing non-guidelines sentences?
22-6631 Larry Welenc v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-procedure due-process internal-revenue-service irs notice-of-intent property-rights property-seizure seizure tax-law tax-levy taxpayer-rights Can the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service issue a NON Final Intent of Notice for immediate payment of Amount Due, to be paid within a deadl…
22-6632 Michael A. Benanti v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-challenge counsel criminal-defendant-rights due-process judicial-review legal-procedure lower-court-decision standing whether the Court failed to obtain a hearing and telling cost of Counsel
22-6634 Rafael Espino v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-liability deliberate-actions due-process global-tech-appliances knowledge-standard mens-rea subjective-belief willful-blindness Whether 'knowing' federal criminal liability based on 'willful blindness' requires a defendant to 'subjectively' believe there is a 'high probability'…
22-6636 Mostafa Kamel Mostafa v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defense-counsel federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-trial-motion rule-33 Whether a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel may be raised under Rule 33(b)(1) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure?
22-6637 Roberto Francisco-Francisco v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent 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)?
22-664 Stephen Edward May v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure collateral-consequences federal-courts habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-error standing subject-matter-jurisdiction unconditional-release Whether a judgment rendered after a habeas petitioner has been unconditionally released with no collateral consequences is void for lack of subject-ma…
22-6652 In Re Walter Drummond Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment habeas-corpus interrogation miranda-rights state-criminal-procedure Whether the State of Florida violated the petitioner's constitutional rights by using an incomplete and deficient Miranda rights form that did not pro…
22-6654 Roland Cummings v. Maine Maine Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review prejudice sixth-amendment sua-sponte Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial and Fourteenth Amendment right to due process are satisfied by an appellate court's summary conclusi…
22-6684 In Re Fox Joseph Salerno Dismissed IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction post-conviction-relief standing Did the Aritena Distetet. Covuct have jurisdic hen HN Qq Habeas Ceoepys Cavse tr whieh the Pe te fener asa S . s 2 sj the housed in the Coleradg Dept …
22-673 Robert G. Hicks v. City of Hopkinsville, Sewerage and Water Works Commission, dba Hopkinsville Water Environment Authority Kentucky Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment default-judgment due-process eminent-domain jurisdictional-statute non-residents service-of-process supremacy-clause Does a failure to cite jurisdiction and service of process statutes in a default judgment violate due process?
22-696 Reginald L. Gundy v. City of Jacksonville, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights first-amendment free-exercise free-speech government-speech qualified-immunity retaliation Whether Petitioner's invited invocation before the City Council was private speech or government speech
22-70 Tyson Foods, Inc., et al. v. Hus Hari Buljic, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) covid-19-pandemic emergency-response federal-direction federal-officer-removal federal-supervision food-supply national-emergency national-food-supply state-law-duties Whether a private actor that assists the federal government in securing the national food supply during a national emergency, under extensive federal …
22A445 Christopher Hunt v. Nationstar Mortgage LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete None
22M67 Sealed Appellant v. Sealed Appellee New York Presumed Complete None
22M68 Jada Ku v. Montana Human Rights Bureau Montana Presumed Complete None
22M69 JoAnn D. Britt v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Fourth Circuit Presumed Complete None
22M70 Theryn Jones v. United States Second Circuit Presumed Complete None
22M71 Rohan Ramsingh v. Transportation Security Administration District of Columbia Presumed Complete None
22M72 Michael Faris v. Department of the Air Force Federal Circuit Presumed Complete None