Conference: 2023-03-17

142 cases — 0 granted, 142 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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22-263 Yves Wantou v. Wal-Mart Stores Texas, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-review cats-paw-theory hostile-work-environment racial-discrimination retaliation section-1981 summary-judgment title-vii Whether an appellate court is required to remand a case to the district court when the appellate court determines the district court used erroneous le…
22-312 Michelle Chapman, Clerk, Circuit Court of Missouri, Randolph County v. Jane Doe, by Next Friend Anthony E. Rothert Eighth Circuit GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) abortion-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bypass minor-rights parental-notification quasi-judicial-immunity standing Whether Clerk Chapman was properly denied quasi-judicial immunity
22-332 Terraform Labs Pte Ltd., et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission Second Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-procedure corporate-tag corporate-tag-jurisdiction due-process personal-jurisdiction sec-rules service-of-process Did the SEC properly exercise personal jurisdiction over a foreign company?
22-388 Rodney Keister v. Stuart Bell, in His Official Capacity as President of the University of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedRelisted (2) expressive-activity first-amendment free-speech government-intent public-forum public-sidewalks sidewalk-access university Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in relying on the government's (or its delegee's) intent to regulate speech in determining that public sidewalks ad…
22-404 Jane Goe, Sr., on Behalf of Herself and Her Minor Child, et al. v. James V. McDonald, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived due-process fundamental-rights jacobson-v-massachusetts medical-exemption public-health strict-scrutiny unconstitutional-conditions vaccine-mandate Whether families have a fundamental right to a medical exemption
22-418 Gene Deveraux v. Montana Montana Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) automatic-reversal biased-juror constitutional-right for-cause-challenge jury-bias sixth-amendment structural-error trial-court-discretion trial-procedure Whether a trial court commits structural error, requiring automatic reversal under the Sixth Amendment, when it seats a biased juror after erroneously…
22-443 Michael S. Zummer v. Jeffrey S. Sallet, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied civil-procedure civil-rights civil-service-reform-act constitutional-claims due-process employment employment-law federal-jurisdiction first-amendment free-speech judicial-review standing Whether a federal district court has jurisdiction to hear colorable constitutional claims by federal employees related to their employment
22-444 Nazir Khan v. Presence Chicago Hospitals Network, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2) 14th-amendment antitrust antitrust-claim civil-rights due-process equal-protection medical-privileges physician-privileges standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the hospital can terminate the physician's privileges
22-505 Tamika J. Pledger v. Gloria Geither, Warden Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment 5th-amendment affidavit arrest-warrant auto-accident civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process frank-v-delaware no-fault-auto-insurance probable-cause toxicology Does Affidavit for Application for Arrest Warrant include false-statements-knowingly-and-intentionally, probable-cause, due-process, frank-v-delaware,…
22-5184 Dwayne Stoutamire v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default section-2253 standard-of-review state-court-exhaustion Whether the court of appeals properly applied Section 2253 of the Certificate of Appealability statute
22-5412 Clifton Lee Tribble v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-collection habeas-corpus judicial-review police-procedure standing witness-testimony Whether an increase in a defendant's authorized punishment based solely on the findings of a court, no matter how they label the fact, must be found b…
22-550 Carlos Jackson v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) competency conviction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-inquiry retroactivity sentence state-courts void-conviction Whether the retroactivity rule for criminal procedure applies to the State of Mississippi
22-5546 Jhon Albert Carrizales Pretell v. Florida Florida Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-offense fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a twelve-person jury to try a criminal defendant accused of a felony offense
22-5618 Ronald J. Brooking v. Prince George's County, Maryland Maryland Denied Relisted (3)IFP circuit-court civil-procedure court-order due-process judicial-review legal-error maryland-law maryland-rules motion-to-dismiss relief-denial standing supreme-court Did the Circuit Court err when it denied the Petitioner's motion to dismiss under the Maryland Rules of Civil Procedure?
22-562 Stephen Douglass, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Shingo Alexander Douglass, et al. v. Nippon Yusen Kabushki Kaisha Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (3) admiralty-jurisdiction admiralty-law due-process federal-courts federal-rule-civil-procedure fifth-amendment high-seas law-of-nations personal-jurisdiction state-courts Whether the Fifth Amendment imposes the same restrictions on personal jurisdiction by federal courts as the Fourteenth Amendment imposes on state cour…
22-5852 Brent Evan Webster v. Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc. Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP adversary-proceeding adversary-proceedings bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-procedure claim-discharge discharge homestead-protection judicial-error priority-claims res-judicata trustee trustee-administration Did the Portland US Bankruptcy Court err in dismissing the adversary filings of Webster, failing to sustain his prior discharge after previously perfo…
22-5866 Gregory A. Milton, aka G v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 924(c) categorical-approach certiorari-petition constitutional-claim hobbs-act section-924c supreme-court-review united-states-v-davis united-states-v-taylor Whether a Hobbs Act conviction can support a violation of 18 U.S.C. §924(c) under the categorical approach
22-5907 Ronald J. Brooking v. Daniel Moloney Maryland Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights fairness fourteenth-amendment judicial-decision maryland-rules privileges-or-immunities procedural-due-process state-action Did the Circuit Court, Court of Special Appeals, and the Court of Appeals err in violations against the Petitioner's rights in the 14th Amendment to t…
22-5932 Nick Casavelli, et ux. v. Donna Johanson, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Gary T. Johanson, Deceased Arizona Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-justice administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-preemption legislative-standard service-of-process standing state-legislation substantive-review vexatious-litigant Can states pass laws that challenge the power of Congress to regulate constitutional rights?
22-5971 Joseph Michael Ladeairous v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. District of Columbia Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-court access-to-courts civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-restrictions due-process judicial-precedent prison-law-library prison-litigation prisoner-rights standing Denial of meaningful access to prison law library due to COVID-19 restrictions
22-5982 Richard Allen Jackson v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied IFP categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law divisibility divisibility-analysis federal-statutes felony-murder first-degree-murder schad-v-arizona statutory-interpretation violent-crime Is federal first-degree murder, 18 U.S.C. § 1(a), a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)?
22-6008 David Jay Tyson v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process law-enforcement property-rights return-of-property seizure Whether the right of the property owner to have the property returned after it was seized by law enforcement should be recognized
22-6093 Steven L. London v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights cushman-v-shinseki disability-claims due-process government-liability property-rights retroactive-benefits statutory-deadline veterans-benefits Does Cushman's determination of the constitutional duty to protect a veteran's property rights apply to the six-year statutory deadline in 31 U.S.C. §…
22-618 MorningStar Fellowship Church v. York County, South Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights continuing-violation-doctrine due-process event-barring federal-cause-of-action federal-causes-of-action statute-of-limitations time-measurement Whether 28 U.S. Code § 1658 (a) will be applied to measure the time between filing and the event complained of
22-6191 John L. Lotter v. Nebraska Nebraska Denied IFP atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment collateral-review constitutional-law eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas retroactivity substantive-rules Did Hall and Moore I announce new substantive rules of federal constitutional law that apply retroactively to cases on collateral review?
22-6193 Marie Assa'ad-Faltas v. South Carolina South Carolina Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights contempt-power contempt-powers due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-trial prison-overcrowding Whether incarceration for up to six months for alleged indirect contempt without trial by jury is always per se cruel and unusual
22-6224 Ali Shahrokhi v. Kizzy J. S. Burrow Nevada Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial judicial-bias procedural-due-process recusal subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the trial judge's refusal to recuse himself from presiding over the 3-day bench trial—while being an adverse party litigating against Shahrokhi— v…
22-6227 Peter Corines v. New York New York Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-amendments due-process equal-protection false-testimony indictment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain state-action Was Petitioner denied due process and equal protection
22-6252 In Re James E. Hitchcock Denied IFP actual-innocence appeals constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process federal-courts federal-habeas post-conviction state-habeas writ-of-habeas-corpus Whether the federal courts' refusal to hear Mr. Hitchcock's meritorious federal claims amounted to a suspension of the writ
22-6264 Randall Eddie Mellon v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law agency-deference auer-deference circuit-split judicial-review relevant-conduct seminole-rock-deference sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether Kisor constrains the deference courts may accord to the commentary to the Sentencing Guidelines
22-635 D. B. v. Colorado, et al. Colorado Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-standing child-welfare civil-rights due-process equal-protection family-separation non-parent-rights standing Can the Colorado appellate courts constitutionally deny such special respondents the right to appeal adverse judgments?
22-6445 Juan Villa Ramirez v. California California Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-finding ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement that every fact, other than a prior conviction, that serves to increase the statutory m…
22-647 Ross Anthony Scott v. Texas Texas Denied circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure defendant-rights defendant-silence fifth-amendment liberal-construction prosecutor-comment prosecutorial-comment self-incrimination Whether a prosecutor's comment on a criminal defendant's failure to testify infringes on the defendant's Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrim…
22-648 Igor Lukashin v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Ninth Circuit Denied due-process equal-protection forfeiture judicial-discretion ninth-circuit padgett-fraud pre-filing-order pro-se pro-se-appeals waiver Whether the Ninth Circuit has been denying Due Process by applying a purportedly categorical rule
22-6485 Annamarie Riethmiller v. Unnamed Defendants Fourth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-rights declaratory-judgment due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation presidential-actions standing state-court statutory-interpretation Was the notice of appeal timely filed?
22-6488 John F. Mosley v. Florida Florida Denied IFP aggravating-factors apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-sentencing constitutional-rights due-process mitigating-circumstances mitigating-evidence reasonable-doubt ring-v-arizona Whether excluding evidence of a history of sexual abuse in Mr. Mosley's family of origin was contrary to Eddings v. Oklahoma
22-6490 Wayne Johnson v. Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate District, et al. California Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-fabrication unpublished-opinion void-order void-restraining-order Whether a state can use a void restraining order as the foundation of a criminal prosecution without violating due process
22-6492 Zoe Ajjahnon v. Sandler Holdings, LLC Florida Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process eviction-proceedings federal-constitution fourteenth-amendment judicial-review procedural-deficiency property-rights state-constitution Whether Florida's Orange County trial court's final judgment, Florida's Fifth District Court of Appeals' deliberate denial of due process, and Florida…
22-6494 Jesse Welch v. Florida Florida Denied IFP brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manifest-injustice newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief rule-3.850 Should the petitioner be held responsible for counsel's error and prevented from presenting newly discovered evidence for review, that very well could…
22-6495 Genero Javon Zuniga v. Colorado Colorado Denied IFP colorado constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment retroactivity substantive-law zuniga Did the State of Colorado violate Mr. Zuniga's Fourteenth Amendment due process protections when it failed to apply a new rule of substantive law retr…
22-6504 Donald Herrington v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendments due-process free-speech grand-jury-fraud ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct trial-framework Did the Commonwealth of Virginia adopt a trial framework that allows elected officials to brake their oath by presenting, publicizing and spreading di…
22-6505 In Re Rosalind Holmes Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure detainer-action discretionary-ruling due-process equal-protection forcible-entry forcible-entry-and-detainer rule-60(b) rule-60b standing Whether the Butler County Area III Court, West Chester Ohio, clearly and indisputably abused its' discretion when it ordered a forcible entry and deta…
22-6508 Joseph M. Evans v. Amy Helene Zubrensky District of Columbia Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law court-precedent due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation surveillance Whether the warrantless surveillance of an individual's cell phone location data violates the Fourth Amendment
22-651 Kenneth Kellogg, et al. v. Watts Guerra LLP, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived attorney-deceit class-action due-process fee-contract judicial-recusal mass-tort multidistrict-litigation Can lawyers privately contract clients and absent class members out of a Fed. R. Civ. P. 23 class action?
22-6516 Abraham A. Augustin v. Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security Tennessee Dismissed IFP civil-forfeiture constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment procedural-protections property-rights takings united-states-constitution Whether the forfeiture of Augustin's property comported with the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
22-6526 Anton Michael Kubica v. California California Denied IFP case-dismissal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-review material-evidence prosecutorial-delay prosecutorial-misconduct speedy-trial Was the appellant denied his federal and state constitutional right to due process, because of unjustified, prejudicial prosecutorial delay in filing …
22-6532 Alfred E. Caraffa, aka Alfred Erik Caraffa v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Ninth Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-rules habeas-corpus state-jurisdiction supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether the writ of habeas corpus can be unconstitutionally delayed
22-6534 Terry Lynn King v. Tony Mays, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-trial constitutional-error cruel-and-unusual-punishment cumulative-error due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment harmless-error judicial-review Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires that courts consider the aggregate effect of multiple legal errors
22-6544 Bradley B. Miller v. Andrea Plumlee, Judge, District Court of Texas, Dallas County Texas Dismissed IFP civil-procedure due-process federal-removal fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity jurisdiction res-judicata standing state-court-jurisdiction statute-of-limitations Whether state court jurisdiction halts during the pendency of a federal removal
22-6546 Arty Marcel v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-error fair-trial improper-amendment-of-bill-of-information ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense other-crimes-evidence reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington whether-mr-marcel-was-denied-right-to-fair-trial
22-6548 United States, ex rel. David Shu v. Nancy Hutt, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP attorney-general civil-rights district-court due-process false-claims-act legal-center lincoln-law pro-se standing statutory-interpretation Whether a pro se is allowed to initially file a False Claims Act (FCA) complaint in a district court without a lawyer?
22-6549 Anne Marie Jordan v. Historic Log Cabins, Inc., et al. South Dakota Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-judicial-misconduct democracy-preservation discrimination fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-misconduct misapplication-of-federal-law misapplication-of-state-law state-law-discrimination supreme-court-review Whether the Supreme Court should grant certiorari to address issues of criminal judicial misconduct, fraud on the court, and the misapplication of fed…
22-655 Dan Sulgrove, et al. v. Spokane Indian Tribe, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived article-iii article-three-standing district-court-order federal-enforcement final-judgment government-agreement judgment-amendment standing tribal-reserved-rights tribal-rights water-rights Whether landowners have standing to appeal a district court order approving a government agreement to amend a final judgment decreeing tribal reserved…
22-6550 Alla Zorikova v. Julie Pyle, et al. Nevada Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-order dismissal-with-prejudice due-process fair-trial judicial-procedure recusal standing whether-zorikova-was-denied-due-process-and-fair-trial
22-6555 Steven Charles Hill v. Texas Texas Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process evidence-sufficiency jury-verdict life-sentence proportionality sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence Was the evidence sufficient to sustain the jury's guilty verdict?
22-6559 Yan Minkovitch v. Ticor Title Company of California, et al. California Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights community-property consumer-protection due-process family-law legal-standing marital-rights real-estate real-estate-transaction standing title-insurance Should private title insurers be permitted to force married couples to relinquish their state-law community property rights when purchasing a home?
22-657 In Re Roger Towers, et ux. Denied Response Waived 28-usc-133 28-usc-44 5th-amendment article-iii constitutional-jurisdiction due-process judicial-distribution judicial-referral magistrates-act Does the distribution of Article III judgeships satisfy the Due Process Clause and/or Article III?
22-6595 Solita Harrington v. MedStar Washington Hospital Center, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance medical-malpractice ninth-circuit standing state-court Whether the respondents' actions violated the petitioner's constitutional rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments
22-6604 In Re Daniel Sheehan Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mandamus statutory-interpretation Whether the Third Circuit has improperly reduced the 2241 gateway via 2255(e) through abuses of discretion in creating conflicting dicta that contradi…
22-6642 Leihinahina Sullivan v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. Ninth Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial jury-selection public-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial applies to jury selection proceedings
22-6650 Antonio Rooks-Byrd, aka Abdur-Rashid Muhammad v. Court of Appeals of Nebraska Nebraska Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-court civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure jurisdiction standing state-appellate-court whether-the-fourteenth-amendment-prohibits-a-state-appellate-court-from-adjudicating-an-application-or-motion-in-complete-absence-of-all-jurisdiction
22-6655 Theodore Washington v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1)IFP criminal-procedure deference due-process fact-finding federal-court federal-habeas habeas habeas-corpus judicial-deference procedural-review state-court state-court-findings Must a federal habeas court defer to a state-court finding of fact that favors the defendant?
22-6663 Steven Janakievski v. Phillip Griffin, Executive Director, Rochester Psychiatric Center Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-consequences constitutional-rights custody-discharge due-process habeas-corpus habeas-petition insanity-acquittee mental-health mootness standing unconditional-discharge Is Petitioner Steven's Federal Habeas Petition moot?
22-6670 Jimmy Ray Lacy, Jr. v. Chandler Cheeks Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jailhouse-informant prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Was Jimmy Ray Lacy Jr. denied a fair trial under the fourteenth amendment
22-6673 Lenwood Mason v. Laurel Harry, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability counsel-replacement court-of-appeals district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel statutory-interpretation Whether the court of appeals erred in denying a certificate of appealability after the district court failed to make an inquiry into a Title 18 U.S.C.…
22-6686 Jerad M. Ross v. Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability disability-rights due-process federal-statutes incarceration rehabilitation-act standing Whether incarceration of felons is considered a disability under the Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act
22-6711 Antonio Walton v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 district-court due-process fair-trial national-emergency whether-mr-walton-was-denied-his-constitutional-rights-to-a-fair-trial-and-due-process-of-law
22-6712 Ramone L. Wright v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP ambiguous-sentence correction-of-record court-transcript criminal-case due-process judicial-confidence judicial-discretion miscarriage-of-justice oral-sentence rule-36-correction sentencing sentencing-ambiguity Whether the district court erred in imposing an ambiguous oral sentence that is contrary to the written judgment
22-6723 Syed K. Rafi v. Yale School of Medicine, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights civil-rights-litigation due-process employment employment-retaliation interstate-conduct jurisdiction jurisdictional-principles res-judicata retaliation strassheim-v-daily territorial-jurisdiction Does the Traditional Method of Determining Jurisdiction Under Territorial Principles apply to 'Interstate Telephonic and Email—Computer Server Based C…
22-6726 Terrence Lowell Hyman v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-murder-trial constitutional-violation criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process falsified-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether a criminal defense lawyer renders ineffective assistance of counsel under Strickland v. Washington when she intentionally presents falsified e…
22-6732 David Alvarado-Rios v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-discretion presumption-of-reasonableness rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness How does a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence rebut an appellate presumption of reasonableness?
22-6741 Donatus O. Mbanefo v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-diligence due-process exculpatory-evidence giglio-standard giglio-v-united-states napue-v-illinois prosecutorial-misconduct self-help Whether a defendant must show inability to obtain suppressed evidence through own efforts to establish Brady violation
22-6742 Jan M. Gawlik v. Ned Lamont, Governor of Connecticut, et al. Connecticut Denied Response WaivedIFP conditions-of-confinement discrimination due-process first-amendment free-exercise religious-freedom rluipa symbolic-expression Whether the Connecticut Department of Corrections' policy of prohibiting incarcerated Catholics/Christians from openly displaying religious articles s…
22-6744 Michael Lee Gordon v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure sixth-circuit standing supreme-court whether the Sixth Circuit Court erred in dismissing petitioner's motion as second/successive under 28 USC 2255
22-6745 Robert Hill v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP Batson-challenge civil-rights constitutional-procedure due-process eighth-circuit equal-protection jury-selection prima-facie-evidence prosecutorial-discretion standard-of-review Whether petitioner established prima facie evidence demonstrating countervailing factors excusing him from making his similarly situated Batson-based …
22-6750 Pascual Agustin-Basilio v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-procedure sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-6756 Wissam Taysir Hammoud v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-murder civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process ninth-circuit-interpretation physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court united-states-v-taylor Whether, in light of this Court's recent decision in United States v. Taylor, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A)'s 'crime of violence' definition excludes attem…
22-6762 Ryan Galal Van Dyck v. Arizona Arizona Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment child-pornography cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment life-sentence mandatory-sentencing proportionality sentencing Does a mandatory de facto life sentence for mere possession of child pornography images, when the person has never directly abused or attempted to abu…
22-6764 Michael Ray Davis v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review lafler-v-cooper overruling padilla-v-kentucky statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether United States v. Granados, 168 F.3d 343 (8th Cir. 1999), Has Been Overruled by Padilla v. Kentucky, 559 U.S. 356 (2010), and Lafler v. Cooper,…
22-6771 Robert A. Condon v. United States Armed Forces Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review armed-forces court-of-criminal-appeals due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel military-justice remand transcript transcript-discrepancy Whether the decision of the Court of Criminal Appeals of the Armed Forces is susceptible to review by the Supreme Court and requires a remand to obtai…
22-6775 Josue Anahun Marquez-Oseguera v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP Batson-challenge constitutional-law equal-protection implicit-bias jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike race-discrimination race-neutral-reason Whether unstable work history automatically qualifies as a race-neutral reason for a peremptory strike in response to a Batson challenge
22-6779 Jong Sung Kim v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-rule brady-violation de-novo-review due-process fifth-amendment giglio-rule giglio-violation sixth-amendment standard-of-review Whether due process and the Fifth and Sixth Amendments require circuit courts to review Brady and Giglio violation claims de novo, rather than for an …
22-6784 Jerry Don South v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split due-process open-court reasonableness-review sentencing statutory-interpretation Must District Courts comply with 18-U.S.C-3553(c)
22-6786 Cleveland Leroy Coaxum, Jr. v. Jeffrey Snoddy, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice procedural-rules prosecutorial-misconduct trial-misconduct Did the courts make an error on Ruling Petitioner's Habeas Corpus, as un-timely filed petition despite it being filed on time in the lower courts?
22-679 NYC C.L.A.S.H., Inc., et al. v. Marcia L. Fudge, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived agency-authority constitutional-avoidance due-process federalism fourth-amendment housing-regulation public-housing smoking-ban spending-clause Whether HUD lacks authority to adopt or enforce its smoking ban as a means to ensure 'safe and habitable' public housing
22-6790 Alexis Jaimez v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process gang-membership guilt-by-association money-laundering Whether the Ninth Circuit's holding that a defendant is guilty of money laundering conspiracy because he was a 'foot soldier' in a gang and therefore …
22-6791 Jerome Simmons v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) crime-of-violence criminal-conspiracy elements-clause fifth-amendment hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sixth-amendment vagueness-doctrine Whether a sentence predicated upon a finding that Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence under the elements clause in 18 U.S.C § 924 (c) violates th…
22-6792 Gary D. Swierski v. Craig Koenig, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review order-to-show-cause reasonably-debatable second-amendment standing Whether the district court's issuance of an 'ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE' indicates that the petitioner's Second Amendment claims are reasonably debatable and…
22-6793 Robert Loya, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-possession drug-trafficking evidence felon-in-possession gang-affiliation intent-to-distribute sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence Is there insufficient evidence to warrant a finding of guilty for Count 1: possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine over 50 grams and Coun…
22-6794 Anthony Suggs v. Tim McConahay, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency habeas-corpus legal-jurisdiction sentencing sixth-amendment standing Why is Mr. Biggs being denied relief even though the convictions for kidnapping do not have the essential elements to support it?
22-6795 Jacobo Rozo Posso v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-malpractice notice-of-appeal post-conviction-relief procedural-default right-to-appeal Whether counsel was ineffective for failing to file a notice of appeal when requested
22-6802 Luis Miguel Sierra-Ayala v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment consensual-search consent exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-seizure police-misconduct reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure Should evidence obtained during an illegal police seizure be suppressed where the rights-violating officer testifies that the person in his custody co…
22-6804 Joseph Mark Williams, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-procedure appellate-procedure civil-procedure criminal-statute due-process legal-timeline minor-protection motion-to-withdraw standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court Whether the 90 days under 28 U.S.C. § 1254 and Supreme Court Rule 13 applies to an order granting a motion to withdraw an appeal
22-6808 Erich Deolax Riker v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fact-finding federal-sentencing jury-finding jury-trial sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness Whether a factual finding that is necessary to render a federal sentence substantively reasonable must be found by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt
22-6809 Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 404(b)-standard appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rule evidentiary-issues evidentiary-test judicial-interpretation legal-uniformity rule-404(b) Is an updated, clear, and uniform test needed for the most common evidentiary issue presented on appeal, Rule 404(b) related issues?
22-6810 Jason Jarvis v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution defendant-rights due-process evidence evidentiary-rules fourth-amendment legal-standing prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure suppressed-evidence Whether suppressed evidence or evidence not belonging to the defendant can be used against the defendant to prosecute him?
22-6812 Ernest Luther Taylor v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure indigent-defendant mental-health mental-illness restitution social-security social-security-disability Did the District Court err in ordering restitution interest for a defendant with mental illness and lack of income?
22-6813 Joshua Glowacki v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination jury-trial probable-cause restitution restitution-order search-warrant sentencing victim-rights Does the defendant in a criminal case have the right to have a jury determine facts to support a restitution order?
22-6816 Montray Lorenzo Cato v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
22-6824 Daniel Dietz v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process gall-v-united-states johnson-v-united-states ninth-circuit revocation sentencing supervised-release Whether imposition of a lifetime term of supervised release upon revocation of supervised release when the previously imposed term was 10 years is con…
22-6828 Luis Espinoza v. Tammy Foss, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-testimony Were Mr. Espinoza's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights violated?
22-6833 James Floyd v. Texas Texas Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidentiary-hearing goading mistrial trial-rights Does a goading-style Double Jeopardy violation bar further retrial even where the trial court had granted a mistrial on an independent ground?
22-6834 Michael Laury v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split controlled-substance crackhouse-statute drug-activity drug-distribution purpose purpose-element statutory-interpretation title-21-section-856 Whether the Government is required to show that drug activity constitutes the primary or principal purpose of the property, or only that drug distribu…
22-6835 Deon'te Reed v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 924c-conviction brecht-standard conspiracy-liability criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions robbery-conspiracy stromberg-error Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in disregarding the prejudice resulting from Stromberg error and instead applying a per se harmless error test based o…
22-6836 Robert Speed v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence divisible-statute modified-categorical-approach racketeering-activity rico-statute statutory-interpretation Whether RICO is a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)
22-6837 James Randolph Sherman v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-fairness criminal-conspiracy drug-offense due-process evidence-sufficiency jury-speculation loose-practice non-incriminating-evidence unfairness-to-defendant Does the U.S. Constitution embrace a criminal conspiracy conviction when the government presents non-incriminating evidence of innocent conduct regard…
22-6843 Edgar Barrera v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction mandatory-minimum mens-rea non-elemental-facts plea-bargaining preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the Constitution permits a sentencing judge to find non-elemental facts by a preponderance of the evidence and then rely on those facts to imp…
22-6845 Jesus Lopez v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment judicial-interpretation legal-procedure plea-bargaining rule-11 seventh-circuit Whether the Seventh Circuit's stringent application of Rule 11(d)(2)(B) violates due process?
22-6847 Philip M. Close v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-USC-2251 18-USC-2252A child-pornography circuit-split criminal-statute federal-law genital-exposure sentencing sexual-conduct sexually-explicit-conduct Whether brief glimpses of children's genital areas in videos constitute 'sexually-explicit-conduct' under 18-USC-2251-and-2252A
22-6848 Maurice Daniels v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights commerce-interference criminal-obstruction due-process federal-law federal-revised-code free-speech hobbs-act public-corruption standing threats-of-violence vagueness Whether the Hobbs Act's prohibition on interference with commerce by threats or violence is unconstitutionally vague as applied to the facts of this c…
22-6849 Salvatore Pelullo v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment bruen-decision civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-power felon-dispossession second-amendment speedy-trial standing Whether Congress has the power to dispossess citizens of their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms based on a citizen's non-violent felony co…
22-6854 Xavier Sims v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause congressional-power criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce precedential-authority scarborough-v-united-states second-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez Whether Congress may rely on Scarborough v. United States to criminalize intrastate possession of a firearm on the sole basis that the firearm once mo…
22-6855 Alvin Lee Johnson v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process indictment-defect ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct sufficiency-of-evidence Whether Johnson's conviction and sentence derived from a defective indictment
22-6858 In Re Zumar H. Dubose Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury indictment jury-selection personal-jurisdiction sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-rights Whether the U.S. District Court has personal or subject-matter jurisdiction over an indictment that was not filed in open court or voted on by 10 or m…
22-6864 In Re Abdush S. DuBose Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-procedure criminal-defendant due-process grand-jury indictment judicial-discretion jurisdiction jury-selection standing trial-rights Whether the U.S. District Court has personal or subject-matter jurisdiction over an indictment that was not filed in open court or voted on by a grand…
22-6866 Antonio Rosello v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default residual-clause statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), establishes 'cause' to excuse procedurally defaulted 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claims that are predicate…
22-6885 Juan Martinez Pedraza v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP which provides that the government has a duty to cross-examination due-process false-testimony fifth-amendment government-witness napue-v-illinois perjury prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Fifth Circuit's holding that false testimony presented by a government witness at trial that is elicited by the defense on cross-examinati…
22-689 Rochelle Y. Driessen v. Barclays Bank, PLC Eleventh Circuit Denied 12(b)(6) 12b6-motion circuit-court-opinion civil-procedure conflict-with-precedent dismissal frivolous frivolous-complaint judicial-review motion-to-dismiss standing Whether the 11th Circuit entered the incorrect decision
22-6892 In Re Willie Thomas Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fundamental-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-bias judicial-discretion judicial-usurpation right-to-testify trial-procedure whether the District Court Approach to 2254 petition asserting a loss of a fundamental constitutional right to choose whether to testify in his own de…
22-691 Louis J. Akrawi v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived None
22-713 Shannon Gladden v. The Procter & Gamble Distributing, LLC Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived bostock bostock-interpretation but-for but-for-causation circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination evidence-evaluation motivating-factor pretext pretext-analysis Does the but-for reasoning referenced in Bostock apply to McDonnell Douglas pretext analysis?
22-722 Frank Calapristi v. United States Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived contract-law federal-circuit government-contractor government-contracts government-control government-involvement implied-contract implied-contracts tucker-act Whether the Federal Circuit's rule that no degree of government involvement or control over a contract between a government contractor and a third par…
22-736 Willie Lumarris Baxter v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived 18-usc-924(e) armed-career-criminal congressional-intent drug-offenses fourth-circuit predicate-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Was the Fourth Circuit's rejection of the Petitioner, Willie Baxter's argument that the prior offenses for serious drug offenses included in a prior i…
22-742 United Mine Workers of America 1974 Pension Plan, et al. v. Energy West Mining Company District of Columbia Denied Amici (1)Response Waived actuarial-assumptions actuarial-determination burden-of-proof concrete-pipe discount-rate multiemployer-pension multiemployer-pension-plan pension-plan reasonable-expectations standard-practice withdrawal-liability Whether the MPPAA overrides standard actuarial practice
22-746 Damion Kentrell White v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus plea-agreement sentencing statutory-maximum Whether due process requires that a provision in a plea agreement waiving the right to file a motion to vacate sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 be cons…
22-765 Cyrus Capital Partners, L.P. v. Sears Holdings Corporation Second Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-valuation collateral collateral-standard debtor-retention rash-v-associates replacement-value secured-debt valuation Whether Bankruptcy Code § 506(a) authorizes a court to value collateral retained by the debtor under a standard other than 'replacement value' when th…
22-777 William E. Henry v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived butterworth-precedent compelled-speech constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech grand-jury grand-jury-secrecy prior-restraint secrecy witness-testimony Whether Alabama's Grand Jury Secrecy Act restricts a grand jury witness's public disclosure of their own testimony — including information known to th…
22-781 Fabio Ochoa v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived adverse-effect brady-violation conflict-of-interest cuyler-v-sullivan due-process giglio-material ineffective-assistance multiple-counsel plea-negotiations Whether the Eleventh Circuit's categorical rule barring a showing of adverse effect in the multiple-counsel context adequately protects defendants fro…
22-783 Victor J. Orena v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response Waived 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 concepcion-v-united-states district-court-authority extraordinary-and-compelling-circumstances extraordinary-circumstances first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation Whether district courts have authority to consider intervening changes in facts in First Step Act motions
22-784 Aaron G. Filler v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived amendment-rights casualty-loss civil-rights constitutional-taking due-process patent patent-protection patent-seizure standing state-liability takings tax-deduction Whether a State's knowing, intentional, and malicious seizure and production of goods protected by a U.S. patent creates Vth or XIVth Amendment liabil…
22-796 Johnny Ellery Smith v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (3)Response Waived assimilative-crimes-act federal-prosecution general-crimes-act indian-country state-law-offenses treaty-rights tribal-sovereignty Whether the Assimilative Crimes Act applies to Indian country
22-797 Marquay Quamaine Sheppard v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived appeal circuit-court-precedent criminal-appeal criminal-procedure district-court due-process fourth-circuit precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-decisions Did the Fourth Circuit err by dismissing the Petitioner's appeal and affirming the 188 month sentence imposed by the trial court, inasmuch as this dec…
22-798 William Michael Crothers v. Wyoming Wyoming Denied Response Waived brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence impeachment-material prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility witness-testimony Whether the prosecutor's failure to disclose a promise of non-prosecution to eyewitness testimony violates the Brady rule
22-801 Ameen Salaam v. Illinois, ex. rel. Kimberly Foxx Illinois Denied Response Waived civil-forfeiture civil-judicial-forfeiture due-process in-rem-jurisdiction judicial-procedure notice notice-requirement passage-of-time void-judgment Whether a court can enter a final judgment without the notice required by the due process clause
22M77 Toni Marie Davis v. Eric L. Adams, Mayor of the City of New York, et al. Second Circuit Presumed Complete None
22M78 In Re Donald Lynn Martin Presumed Complete None
22M79 David Wayne McWherter v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete None
22M80 A. H., Mother v. S. W. Ohio Presumed Complete None
22M81 Henry E. Gossage v. Office of Personnel Management, et al. Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None
22M82 Michael T. Brooks v. Agate Resources, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None
22M83 Michael Lee Gordon v. Doe, Designation Sentence Computation Center Official, et al. Eighth Circuit Presumed Complete None
22M84 Maude Laroche-St. Fleur v. Board of Bar Overseers of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Massachusetts Presumed Complete None