Conference: 2023-06-08

113 cases — 0 granted, 113 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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22-1018 Jeffrey L. Moeser v. Wisconsin Wisconsin Denied Response Waived constitutional-protection federal-courts-of-appeals fourth-amendment general-warrants individual-liberty law-enforcement oath-affirmation oath-or-affirmation probable-cause warrant-requirement Whether a sheriff who indisputably did not make an oral or written oath or affirmation to anyone and who falsely signed a preprinted affidavit stating…
22-1019 CoreCivic, Inc. v. Sylvester Owino, et al., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure class-certification commonality ninth-circuit rule-23 standard-of-review uniformity Whether courts of appeals reviewing Rule 23 class certification decisions must give district court decisions granting class certification more deferen…
22-1022 Evan Scott Grant v. Nevada Board of Parole Commissioners, et al. Nevada Denied Response Waived amendment-interpretation constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process legislative-intent liberty-interest parole state-law statutory-interpretation Whether two separate acts passed by a state legislature concerning the same topic should be interpreted harmoniously
22-1054 Robert E. Bennett, et ux. v. City of Kingman, Arizona Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-rights regulatory-takings section-1983-claim takings takings-clause vested-rights Did the Arizona District Court and the Ninth Circuit Court err in their analysis of the takings claim?
22-1057 Standing Akimbo, Inc., et al. v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived commerce-clause controlled-substances-act federalism marijuana-regulation necessary-and-proper-clause summary-judgment tax-code Whether Gonzales v. Raich should be overruled
22-1062 Hinkle Family Fun Center, LLC, et al. v. Michelle Lujan Grisham, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-servitude inverse-condemnation property-rights qualified-immunity section-1983 taking takings Did the Tenth Circuit err in providing qualified immunity to Respondents for their actions to inversely condemn the property of the Petitioners to shu…
22-1081 Bruce J. Chasan v. Correale F. Stevens, et al. Pennsylvania Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction credibility-determinations defamation excess-of-jurisdiction fact-finding judicial-authority judicial-immunity non-monetary-relief statutory-limitations usurpation-of-authority Where Superior Court judges in Pennsylvania are deprived by statute of jurisdiction to make findings of fact and credibility determinations as appella…
22-1096 Ariadna Ramon Baro v. Lake County Federation of Teachers Local 504, IFT-AFT/AFL-CIO, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived collective-bargaining consent employee-rights first-amendment government-employer janus-v-afscme union-membership waiver waiver-doctrine May a government employer withhold money from an employee on behalf of a union based solely on the employee's signature on a union membership card whe…
22-1097 Don Fitzgerald Hancock v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error religious-freedom religious-garment sixth-amendment witness-testimony Whether the Sixth Amendment right to confront and cross-examine witnesses was violated by allowing the sole witness to testify in a niqab
22-1123 Richard J. Peltz-Steele v. UMass Faculty Federation, Local 1895 American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, et al. First Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights exclusive-representation first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association labor-law Does a state law forcing a government employee to accept a union of which the employee is not a member to speak and negotiate on their behalf as their…
22-605 Military-Veterans Advocacy Inc. v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit Denied administrative-law agency-deference mootness Munsingwear SEC-v-Chenery vacatur Whether under the United States v. Munsingwear 340 U.S. 36 (1950) the Court should grant certiorari and vacate the decisions below in this case that b…
22-614 Troy Chrisman, et al. v. Estate of Seth Michael Zakora, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) civil-rights constitutional-protection corrections corrections-liability criminal-law drug-contraband due-process eighth-amendment institutional-supervision prisoner-rights Whether a prisoner's criminal act of voluntarily ingesting an illegal drug banned within the prison can give rise to that prisoner's federal constitut…
22-629 David Holbrook v. Tennessee Valley Authority, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied administrative-law agency-discretion congressional-intent government-corporation judicial-review public-utilities rate-setting statutory-interpretation Do federal courts have authority to review TVA's fidelity to its enabling statute, or is TVA's rate-setting excepted from all judicial review even whe…
22-6409 Victor Gaspar Chichande v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP criminal-procedure detention-conditions drug-enforcement drug-law-enforcement due-process foreign-nationals human-rights international-law maritime-interdiction maritime-law Why do the courts sanction the forced apprehension of foreign nationals chained to Coast Guard vessels?
22-6448 Rickey Thompson v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP case-review civil-rights compelling-circumstances compelling-reasons due-process extraordinary-circumstances extraordinary-reasons judicial-discretion legal-standard petitioner-relief relief standing Whether extraordinary and compelling reasons exist in granting Petitioner relief in this case?
22-6461 Segundo Marcial Dominguez-Caicedo and Adrian Andres Cortez-Quinonez v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP arrest arrest-delay criminal-procedure due-process high-seas judicial-proceedings magistrate-review speedy-trial transportation transportation-time unnecessary-delay Whether the additional delay resulting from transportation to the district the Government chooses to prosecute must be considered when determining whe…
22-6473 Michael Dewayne Dennis v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment privacy privacy-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search sentencing-disparities surveillance warrantless-search whether-long-term-police-use-of-a-surveillance-camera-is-a-fourth-amendment-search
22-6475 Nohe Dominguez-Morales v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP almendarez-torres apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure historical-practices notice-clause prior-conviction-exception prior-convictions sixth-amendment Whether the prior-conviction exception from Almendarez-Torres can be squared with the text of the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause and the historical p…
22-6481 Courtney J. v. Beaufort County Department of Social Services, et al. North Carolina Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP child-welfare civil-death-penalty due-process equal-protection payment-obligation statutory-interpretation termination-of-parental-rights Whether the Supreme Court of North Carolina's interpretation of a termination of parental rights statute deprives parents of due process and equal pro…
22-6506 Andrew Simpson v. Carl Davis, dba Davis Construction Co., et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1915 civil-rights court-appointed-counsel due-process exceptional-circumstances informa-pauperis legal-representation mental-illness pro-se-litigant When acting under 28 USC 1915 Informa paupers, do a mental illness qualify as a 'exceptional circumstance' for appointment of council? Do a mentally i…
22-652 Pavel Ivanovich Lazarenko v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split criminal-forfeiture procedural-safeguards statutory-interpretation substitute-property tainted-property untainted-property Whether property can be forfeited as substitute property under § 853(p) without first determining whether it is tainted or untainted
22-6582 In Re Elaine Mickman Denied Relisted (2)IFP child-support constitutional-rights due-process judicial-authority jurisdiction legal-procedure legislated-law state-constitution state-court-jurisdiction usurpation Whether the state Court violated due-process,constitutional-rights,jurisdiction,legislated-law,state-constitution,usurpation
22-6730 Pabeel Narvaez-Gomez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court 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…
22-6751 Ernest Kyle Dyer v. United States Third Circuit Denied IFP appeal appellate-review conditional-guilty-plea federal-criminal-procedure federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-11(a)(2) harmless-error motion-to-suppress plea-bargaining prevail When a defendant enters a conditional guilty plea, reserving the right to appeal an adverse decision on a motion to suppress, what harmless-error stan…
22-6944 Paige C. Sullivan, nka Paige C. Auer v. Jacob James Culwell Florida Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law constitutional-protection custody custody-dispute de-facto-parenthood due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest parental-rights standing Whether a natural parent has a fundamental liberty interest in the care, custody, and management of her child
22-6951 Zachariah Marcyniuk v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit Denied IFP capital-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-fairness judicial-misconduct peremptory-strikes procedural-default state-officials supervisory-powers Whether cause exists to excuse procedural default when state officials made misleading statements that hindered counsel's compliance with state's proc…
22-6983 Bernardino Berrun-Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction 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 …
22-6986 Paulo Bernal-Ceto v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7028 John L. Dickerson, Jr., Administrator of the Estate of Betty Jane Matlock, Deceased v. Emmanuel Noel Cruz Tancinco, et al. Arkansas Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process estate-administration judicial-procedure medical-malpractice procedural-rights standing substantive-rights wrongful-death Whether the petitioner's substantive and procedural due process rights were violated when the Circuit Court and Arkansas Court of Appeals dismissed th…
22-7048 Scott P. Roeder v. Dan Schnurr, Warden Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-economy postconviction-review standing suspension-clause unborn-rights Whether United States v. Vuitch, 402 U.S. 62 (1971), should be overruled in favor of equality with the unborn
22-7181 Kerrin Ann Barrett v. PAE, Incorporated Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-timeline civil-rights claim-preclusion due-process federal-statutes judicial-expediency res-judicata whistleblower whistleblower-statutes Whether applying res judicata doctrine to deny separate and distinct claims under Federal whistleblower statutes, including those that have specific a…
22-7219 Dawud Canaan Sturrup Gabriel v. Melton Truck Lines Tenth Circuit Dismissed IFP certiorari-denial civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination government-misconduct judicial-procedure standing whistleblower whistleblower-rights Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit departed from the accepted course of judicial proceedings
22-7222 Ray Dansby v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit Denied IFP bias confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process informant jailhouse-informant witness-impeachment Whether preclusion of cross-examination about an informant's propensity for bias violates the Confrontation Clause
22-7230 James Jonathan Mitchell v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence due-process evidentiary-hearing exculpatory-evidence federal-petition habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence procedural-due-process successive-petition summary-dismissal Whether a state prisoner is entitled to a hearing on a successive habeas corpus petition that raises a claim of actual innocence based on newly discov…
22-7232 Darrell Gunn v. Frederick N. Berntein, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment assault assault-case civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standards judicial-review medical-treatment retaliation Whether plaintiff was within the 5-year statute of 42 U.S.C. Section 1983(a) when he filed Section 1983 claims
22-7235 Adam Chism v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process illegal-sentence interest-of-justice plain-error sentencing trial-court Whether Chism was denied due process of law when plain error was committed by the trial court in imposing an illegal sentence as a matter of law and/o…
22-7238 Yousry Amin Rizk v. Edward Sandler, et al. Florida Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fraud habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review misrepresentation post-conviction-relief standing Whether the lower court erred in reversing the legal finding of fraud and misrepresentation by the petitioners
22-7244 Jose Ramon Cruz v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sixth-amendment state-court-decision state-court-deference strickland strickland-standard Whether the 'could have supported' framework of Harrington v. Richter allows a federal court to 'invent' historical facts not relied upon by the state…
22-7256 Mickey Wahl v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit sixth-amendment uncertified-issues Whether Mr. Wahl was denied his right to effective assistance of counsel in violation of the Sixth & Fourteenth Amendments?
22-7257 Santos Cuevas v. Tina Kotek, Governor of Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-review double-jeopardy due-process federal-law judicial-discretion jury-trial sentence-enhancement sentencing sixth-amendment Has Oregon's Judiciary and legislature failed to incorporate landmark cases relevant for how and when to enhance a sentence, and to comport with the r…
22-7262 Alfred Coppage v. Illinois Illinois Denied IFP appellate-review appellate-standard civil-procedure constitutional-review due-process harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion standing Whether trial court abused discretion by hearing motion for substitution of judge
22-7269 Melchor Karl T. Limpin v. Robert B. C. McSeveney, Judge, United States Immigration Court, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourth-amendment immigration immigration-law probable-cause warrant-clause Whether the statute 8 U.S.C. § 1226(a) is constitutionally impermissible under the Fourth and Fifth Amendment equal protection clause
22-7285 Susan Lloyd v. Thomas Pokorny, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-circuit civil-rights due-process judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct jury-trial sanctions standing trial-procedure Are the orders from the 6th Circuit void, should Lloyd's motion for reconsideration be denied?
22-7294 Robert L. Tatum v. Earnell Lucas, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants sanctions summary-judgment Whether the systemic discrimination against pro se litigants by the federal courts, including the imposition of punitive sanctions for filing non-friv…
22-730 Michael Rop, et al. v. Federal Housing Finance Agency, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied acting-director acting-officials appointments-clause constitutional-limits executive-power federal-housing-finance-agency presidential-powers principal-officer senate-confirmation separation-of-powers Whether the challenged decisions of the 'Acting' FHFA Director should be vacated because the Constitution does not permit the President to designate a…
22-7324 Byron R. Fisher v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure disability-claims due-process judicial-review military-service standing veterans-benefits Did the lower court violate the constitutional rights of an Iraq War Veteran (Petitioner) by not addressing the crimes committed by the Respondent?
22-7334 In Re Quincetta Y. Cargill Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance institutional-conditions intellectual-disability legal-appeal medical-treatment mental-health procedural-challenges rules-of-court standing Where petitioner has been denied showing a probability of success on the merits
22-7346 John G. Calhoun v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process estelle-v-mcguire habeas-corpus jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-precedent lisenba-v-california manslaughter trial-fairness Whether the inaccurate jury instruction on Manslaughter by Act so infused the trial with unfairness as to deny the Petitioner's right to Due Process o…
22-7353 Martin Robinson v. Ohio Ohio Denied Response WaivedIFP accountability civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-acts due-process judicial-process official-misconduct standing wrongful-imprisonment The right to an effective judicial process
22-741 Faith Bible Chapel International v. Gregory Tucker Tenth Circuit Denied Amici (12)Relisted (4) church-autonomy civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination first-amendment free-speech interlocutory-appeal judicial-immunity ministerial-exception religion-clauses religious-freedom standing Whether the First Amendment's 'ministerial exception' should be understood as an immunity from judicial interference in church employment decisions fa…
22-7456 Zhaojin David Ke v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-justice equal-protection evidence-presentation judicial-discrimination pro-se-litigant standing Whether the right to present evidence in an appeals court is Constitutionally protected
22-7458 Roger Wayne Battle v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process murder-by-omission physical-force sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether murder by omission qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)
22-7481 Anthony Allen v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel appellate-representation cause-and-prejudice constitutional-challenge constitutional-sentencing ineffective-assistance smith-vs-bailey substantive-law successive-petition Whether appointed Appellate Counsel's missapprehended the law and facts by failure to brief and raise the issues on appeal constitutes unreasonable if…
22-7485 Daniel Isaiah Thody v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process jury-trial sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release united-states-v-haymond Whether the current implementation of Supervised Release, (18 U.S.C. §3583), as a 'separate sentence' in addition to the 'sentence of imprisonment', i…
22-7486 TyJuan Keith v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the lower court upheld the prosecutor's conduct during trial
22-7500 Safara Echo Shortman v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP continuing-offense controlled-substances-act criminal-charging distribution drug-distribution plain-error plea-bargaining possession-with-intent possession-with-intent-to-distribute statutory-interpretation Whether 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) permits the government to charge a continuing offense of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance bas…
22-7507 Robert Stanley Woods, aka Saladin Rushdan v. Haar, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment civil-rights correctional-goals due-process first-amendment medical-treatment out-of-court-settlement prisoner-rights retaliation settlement-agreement Does an out-of-court settlement agreement set the parameters for future legitimate correctional goals?
22-7514 Joshua Brown v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment color-discrepancy fourth-amendment high-crime-area probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop vehicle-registration Whether an officer has reasonable suspicion to stop a vehicle based solely on a discrepancy between the vehicle's apparent color and the color listed …
22-7516 Adam Dean Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bodily-injury controlled-substance criminal-intent drug-offense due-process felony-statute jury-determination prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether the term 'knowingly or intentionally' requires the Government to prove that the defendant knew what substance he or she was distributing to ob…
22-7517 Phillip Daniel Love v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split district-court-explanation holguin-hernandez-v-united-states mitigating-arguments mitigation-arguments preservation-of-error rita-v-united-states sentencing-arguments sentencing-procedure standard-of-review Whether a party is required to specifically object to the district court's failure to explain its rejection of nonfrivolous sentencing arguments after…
22-7519 Daniel A. Rodriguez v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-recusal sentencing-review standing statutory-interpretation structural-error Whether it is a Structural Error for a District Judge to preside over proceedings that he has been directly recused from
22-7520 Levaughn Collins v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure fifth-amendment fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress statutory-interpretation suppression-of-evidence wiretap-evidence wiretapping Whether the District Court erred in denying Mr. Collins' Motions to Suppress Wire Tap evidence
22-7523 Samuel Caison v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment incarceration mental-health nature-of-crime personal-characteristics sentencing-court sentencing-guidelines Whether imposing a period of incarceration that is within the Sentencing Guidelines range can be considered cruel and unusual punishment when the offe…
22-7526 Charles Edward Krupalla v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-authority delegation-of-authority due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-delegation probation-officer sentencing-commission separation-of-powers supervised-release Does Standard Condition 12 unconstitutionally delegate judicial authority to the probation officer?
22-7527 Adam Garcia v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction force-clause predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether Hobbs Act robbery can serve as the underlying felony for a 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) conviction
22-7531 Chykeetra Maltbia v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP briefing circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process insufficient-evidence legal-error mens-rea miscarriage-of-justice plain-error prejudice regulatory-provisions Whether the Circuit Court erred in finding that the defendant had not established prejudice due to an omitted mens rea element
22-7533 Terence Crawley v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 civil-rights compassionate-release criminal-procedure discretionary-relief district-court-discretion due-process first-step-act non-frivolous-arguments sentencing sentencing-relief supreme-court-ruling Whether the district court is obligated to consider a defendant's non-frivolous arguments when exercising its discretion to grant or deny relief under…
22-7537 Jacqueline Anderson v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-115 criminal-liability federal-activities federal-officials ninth-circuit-interpretation private-contractors protective-security-officer statutory-interpretation Are private contractors federal 'official[s]' for purposes of criminal liability under 18 U.S.C. § 115?
22-7540 Harry Cole v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure district-court due-process essential-element jurisdiction jurisdictional-concept sua-sponte venue Whether venue is only a jurisdictional concept rather than essential element of an offense that must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt
22-7541 Luis Nunez-Romero v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-usc-1229 administrative-law due-process immigration-law immigration-removal notice-to-appear removal-order removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation ultra-vires Whether a putative notice to appear that does not contain the time and place of removal proceedings, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1229(a)(1)(G), is ultr…
22-7543 Dwayne Mitchell Littlejohn v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act coram-nobis criminal-procedure custody due-process ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel novelty-of-legal-interpretation sixth-amendment Whether a defendant's reliance on erroneous advice from counsel, the Court of Appeals and novelty of a legal interpretation constitutes 'valid reasons…
22-7544 Eliu Elixander Lorenzana-Cordon v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights fourth-amendment indefinite-retention personal-property unreasonable-searches-and-seizures warrantless-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and indefinite retention of a person's personal property violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on u…
22-7548 Vickie Leavitt Duran v. Nevada Division of Parole and Probation, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence conspiracy due-process false-evidence fourteenth-amendment procedural-protections wrongful-conviction wrongful-convictions Is Due Process under the Fourteenth Amendment considered not denied where state actors purposefully fail to provide procedural protections and falsify…
22-7549 Gilberto Arreola Chavez v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process first-amendment judicial-review legal-procedure post-conviction-relief retroactivity Is retroactivity applicable for post-conviction relief?
22-7552 Jeffrey Christopher Anders v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense deference-to-agency-interpretation genuine-ambiguity guidelines-commentary inchoate-offenses judicial-deference sentencing-guidelines Whether courts may defer to guidelines commentary without first determining that the underlying Guideline is genuinely ambiguous
22-7553 Ivory Joe Tisdale v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-prosecution plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-appeal waiver Does it violate due process for a defendant to be required to waive his right to appeal in order to enter into an otherwise favorable plea agreement w…
22-7554 Samuel Terraye Windom v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-buy drug-evidence fourth-amendment informant nexus nexus-requirement probable-cause search-warrant Whether a controlled drug transaction that takes place away from a suspect's home is sufficient to establish a nexus between the offense and the suspe…
22-7557 Germaine Coulter, Sr., aka Slim v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial hearsay-testimony juror-coercion jury-coercion jury-deliberation jury-deliberations prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether Mr. Coulter's Sixth Amendment rights were violated
22-7559 Brenda Sensing and Dennis Sensing v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bearden-v-georgia due-process fifth-amendment restitution-collection right-to-counsel show-cause-hearing sixth-amendment Can a district court initiate restitution collection proceedings?
22-7563 Joseph I. Wilkes v. Ohio Ohio Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-rights constitutional-rights delayed-appeal due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plain-language trial-court-jurisdiction Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution were violated when a request for delayed appeal was denied
22-7565 Alex Estuardo Ixcopal-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-procedure discretionary-review due-process federal-question supplemental-materials Whether the Fifth Circuit's ruling to expand the record on direct appeal without providing adequate opportunity to respond violates due process
22-7566 Byron Keith Howard v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP automatic-right-to-withdraw criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-bargaining plea-colloquy right-to-be-informed rule-11 voluntary-plea Must a defendant be informed at the Rule 11 plea colloquy of a factual basis to support the defendant's plea of guilty before the court can accept the…
22-7567 Enrique Infante, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-compelling-reasons judicial-discretion medical-care sentencing sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation Whether inadequate medical care for a treatable illness is a categorically insufficient basis to qualify as an extraordinary and compelling reason for…
22-7569 Andrew Payton v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver contract-law criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process plea-agreement sentencing-error sentencing-errors voluntary-forfeiture Can a criminal defendant knowingly and voluntarily forfeit his right to appeal the district court's yet-to-be-made sentencing errors as part of his pl…
22-7575 Larry Edmond v. Tommy Williams, Warden Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process impartial-jury ineffective-assistance jury-bias racial-bias racial-discrimination structural-error trial-court Whether district court trial abuse its discretion and violated the defendant's constitutional right to an impartial jury
22-7578 In Re Carlos A. Seino Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-appellate jurisdictional-challenge massachusetts-law procedural-rules search-and-seizure standing Whether the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment in the context of a warrantless s…
22-7582 Rodolfo A. Cuellar, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-law drug-convictions federal-prisoner first-step-act resentencing sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum Whether the defendant is entitled to a reduced sentence under the First Step Act, and the proper interpretation of the statutory maximum authorized by…
22-7584 Kahliq Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appeal-waivers circuit-split criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement policy-concerns sentencing-errors Can a criminal defendant knowingly and voluntarily forfeit his right to appeal the district court's yet-to-be-made sentencing errors as part of his pl…
22-7585 Enrique Roberto Villarreal 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?
22-7586 Mark Ringland v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment privileges-and-immunities procedural-protections standing state-procedure Whether the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment provide that no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abrid…
22-7587 John Wayne Spell v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review plea-agreement procedural-error waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Spell's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement
22-7588 Eric Lee Coleman v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-defense categorical-approach criminal-law due-process judicial-interpretation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-analysis statutory-interpretation Whether a court must consider the availability (or non-availability) of an affirmative defense in the categorical approach
22-7593 In Re Edwin W. Rubis Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-custody habeas-corpus liberty marijuana-prohibition whether-rules-14-g-and-h-are-applicable-to-habeas-corpus-petition
22-7597 In Re Frank Michael Monte Denied IFP civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment government-overreach property-rights search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and indefinite retention of a person's personal property violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on u…
22-7608 Phillip L. Horrell v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment ake-v-oklahoma constitutional-rights due-process mental-illness plea-bargaining plea-hearing sanity-examination supervisory-power Whether the plea of guilty but mentally ill violated due process
22-767 Rebecca Irene Harp v. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) None
22-773 Tre Hargett, Tennessee Secretary of State, et al. v. Tennessee State Conference of the NAACP, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 42-usc-1988 attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights merits-determination preliminary-injunction prevailing-party statutory-interpretation When, if ever, does a party who obtains a preliminary injunction, but never secures a final merits determination, qualify as a 'prevailing party' elig…
22-782 Carol Pulliam v. University of Southern California California Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-ethics recusal standing takings Do state court trial judges, court of appeal justices and supreme court justices 'war against the (United States) Constitution' by denying state litig…
22-824 The Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, et al. v. Alexander Belya Second Circuit Denied Amici (8)Relisted (3) church-autonomy defamation-claims first-amendment immunity internal-disputes judicial-interference liability ministerial-exception religious-leadership religious-liberty Whether the First Amendment's church autonomy doctrine and its 'ministerial exception' should be understood as an immunity from judicial interference …
22-835 Bradley Hester v. Matthew Gentry Eleventh Circuit Denied Amici (3) bail-practices civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit pretrial-liberty public-safety standing Whether the Due Process Clause protects a fundamental right to pretrial liberty
22-838 Integrity Advance, LLC, et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Tenth Circuit Denied administrative-law administrative-law-judges appointments-clause appropriations-clause consumer-financial-protection-bureau due-process judicial-review lucia-v-sec separation-of-powers Whether the Lucia 'new hearing' remedy requires an actual new hearing or only a cold review of the record
22-864 Ohio v. D. R. Ohio Denied Amici (1) court-discretion discretionary-hearings due-process fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offenders sex-offenders statutory-obligations Does the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause entitle juvenile sex offenders to hearings at which courts have discretion to lift statutorily mand…
22-880 Ohio v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (3) american-rescue-plan constitutional-limits covid-19 covid-relief federal-spending-clause intergovernmental-immunity jurisdictional-challenge spending-clause state-sovereignty state-standing tax-mandate Do courts have jurisdiction over the States' constitutional challenges to the Tax Mandate?
22-908 TLA Claimholders Group v. LATAM Airlines Group S.A., et al. Second Circuit Denied bankruptcy-code chapter-11 creditor-rights equity-holders impaired-claims impairment post-petition-interest unimpaired-claims May a Chapter 11 plan classify a creditor's claim as unimpaired without paying any interest owed under the creditor's contract that accrues during the…
22-918 Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services v. Trina Ray, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-role economic-reality fair-labor-standards-act federalism joint-employment overtime-wages social-services-program suffer-or-permit-to-work Whether a county may be deemed a joint employer under the FLSA when it plays a mere administrative role in a State's social services program by legisl…
22-932 North Carolina Division of Sons of Confederate Veterans, Inc. v. North Carolina Department of Transportation, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-law first-amendment fourth-circuit free-speech government-speech license-plate public-forum specialty-license-plate state-law Did the district court and Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err in applying the 'Government Speech' doctrine?
22-968 Ginger Atherton v. Key Bank, N.A. Washington Denied arbitrability arbitration-agreement conditions-precedent contract-interpretation federal-arbitration-act jurisdiction preemption state-court-jurisdiction state-courts When there is a valid and enforceable agreement to arbitrate, and the dispute is within the scope of the arbitration agreement, does the FAA preempt s…
22-970 James H. Griffith, Jr., dba CJ's Sports Bar, et al. v. Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. Sixth Circuit Denied copyright-act copyright-infringement de-novo-review exclusive-licensing idea-of-work licensing-rights right-to-sue sua-sponte summary-judgment tangible-medium Whether the plain language of the US Copyright Act authorizes the exclusive licensing of rights in an idea before it is fixed in a tangible medium
22-971 Glenn Henderson v. Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., et al. North Carolina Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process employment-dispute first-amendment free-speech legal-threat pro-se-litigation self-defense threat Is it legal to say you will attempt to defend yourself if attacked?
22-987 Polaris Industries Inc., et al. v. Jeremy Albright Ninth Circuit Denied abstention-doctrine cafa civil-procedure class-action-fairness-act equitable-jurisdiction federal-courts forum-shopping subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether CAFA's mandatory grant of subject matter jurisdiction and enumeration of limited equitable bases authorizing abstention require district court…
22-995 Angelica Limcaco v. Steve Wynn, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-evidence-rule foreign-agents-registration-act judicial-notice property-injury rico rico-act standing Whether a harm to an intangible property interest is a sufficient injury to a business or property interest under RICO
22A975 Ernest Adimora-Nweke v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete None
22M112 Jane Doe v. United States Tenth Circuit Presumed Complete None