| 22-1048 |
Joseph E. Blackburn, Jr., et ux. v. Dare County, North Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment government-regulation property-rights regulatory-takings takings takings-clause |
Whether a governmental regulation prohibiting all physical access to a landowner's property is a 'per se' taking under the Fifth Amendment of the Unit… |
| 22-1055 |
Lee Elbaz, aka Lena Green v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
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circuit-split criminal-prosecution domestic-application domestic-transmission extraterritoriality foreign-conduct interstate-commerce wire-fraud |
Whether the wire-fraud statute applies extraterritorially or is limited to domestic applications |
| 22-1082 |
Steven M. Larrabee v. Carlos Del Toro, Secretary of the Navy, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
active-duty civilian-status constitutional-review court-martial due-process founding-era-practices military-jurisdiction retired-servicemembers ucmj |
Whether the Constitution permits military retirees to be tried by court-martial for offenses committed after they have left active duty? |
| 22-1112 |
Avail Vapor, LLC, et al. v. Food and Drug Administration |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law administrative-procedure-act arbitrary-and-capricious evidence-standard evidentiary-standard fda fda-regulation marketing-authorization premarket-applications tobacco-product-regulation tobacco-products |
Whether FDA's marketing denial order was arbitrary and capricious |
| 22-1118 |
Cody Adams, et al. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
civil-rights due-process federal-employees federal-employment hazardous-duty-pay proximity-exposure regulatory-interpretation statutory-entitlement statutory-interpretation virulent-biologicals |
Whether federal employees who work in close proximity to individuals infected with virulent biologicals are entitled to hazardous duty pay under the r… |
| 22-1125 |
Don Blankenship v. NBCUniversal, LLC, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
actual-malice constitutional defamation first-amendment media-liability public-figure summary-judgment |
Whether the actual malice standard imposed on public figure plaintiffs in defamation cases should be replaced |
| 22-1158 |
Lassana Magassa v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
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administrative-procedure-act agency-rulemaking constitutional-challenge final-order jurisdiction jurisdiction-stripping mcnary-v-haitian-refugee-ctr statutory-interpretation sts-redress-process |
Does agency rulemaking constitute a final order under 49 U.S.C. § 46110? |
| 22-1240 |
Nicolas Tashman v. Advance Auto Parts, Inc. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
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circuit-split civil-rights employment employment-discrimination respondeat-superior statutory-interpretation supreme-court tortious-acts |
Whether general common law principles of respondeat superior apply to hold an employer liable for an employee's tortious acts under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 |
| 22-1248 |
Missouri, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
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administrative-procedure constitutional executive-order greenhouse-gas procedural-injury regulatory social-cost sovereign-interests standing standing-doctrine statutory |
Whether the Petitioning States' alleged harms to their proprietary and sovereign interests (as well as a completed procedural injury) are sufficient t… |
| 22-6930 |
Robert Earl Hackney v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct jury-trial standing writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a petitioner can pass through the Court's Writ of Certiorari gateway and argue the merits of an underlying constitutional claim when the petit… |
| 22-7286 |
Vonteak Alexander v. Jane Doe, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
contract-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-discretion legal-reformation mistake-of-law mutual-mistake plea-agreement |
May a court reform an accepted, valid, federal plea agreement containing a mutual mistake of law to circumvent the mistake to the defendant's prejudic… |
| 22-7474 |
Quinton Markis Cuthbertson, aka Quinton Marquis Cuthbertson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process fourth-amendment police-misconduct police-provocation spoliation subterfuge suppression-hearing unreasonable-seizure |
Do police violate a person's Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable seizure when they provoke, through subterfuge and intimidation, a person to … |
| 22-7539 |
Stacy Gallman v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
court-proceedings criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence evidence-ruling jury-selection public-trial sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment's public trial guarantee extends to proceedings after a jury has been seated in which the court rules on challenged eviden… |
| 22-7671 |
Eduardo Catarino Palacios v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-violation chain-of-custody due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct texas-criminal-procedure |
Was the prosecutor allowed to override the habeas court's findings of fact and conclusions of law? |
| 22-7904 |
Andrew Ryan Demont v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review armed-career-criminal circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law drug-convictions federal-guidelines federal-sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of decontrolled substances can be used for federal sentencing enhancements |
| 23-100 |
Jeffrey L. Clemens v. Michael J. O'Hara |
First Circuit |
Denied |
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appellate-review civil-rights disorderly-conduct due-process false-testimony heck-bar iqbal-plausibility malicious-prosecution |
Whether the appellate court erred in upholding the dismissal of a malicious-prosecution claim despite allegations of false testimony and improper dism… |
| 23-102 |
Marvin Carrera v. Rhonda K. Forsberg |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
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civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violations constitutional-due-process constitutional-violations eleventh-amendment federal-court-jurisdiction judicial-immunity rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-federal-court |
Can a Judge use the Rooker-Feldman doctrine to divert the State Federal Court from looking in to violation of civil and Constitutional violations? |
| 23-104 |
Granville S. Watson v. Connecticut, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
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18-usc-242 civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-function-exception federal-tort-claims-act fraudulent-concealment sovereign-immunity wrongful-incarceration |
When is it appropriate to seek compensation for wrongful incarceration? |
| 23-105 |
Joe Thorpe v. Township of Salisbury, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absolute-immunity civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment fourteenth-amendment harris-v-harvey immunity judicial-immunity prosecutorial-immunity |
Did the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals violate the rule announced in Harris v. Harvey, 605 F.2d 330 (7th Cir.… |
| 23-11 |
Gary Victor Dubin v. United States District Court for the District of Hawaii |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
abuse-of-discretion americans-with-disabilities-act appellate-procedure claims-processing-rule due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion temporary-disability |
Whether the dismissal of timely filed appeals for failure to file opening briefs, a claims processing rule, without verifying the factual circumstance… |
| 23-110 |
Anisha Ituah, by Her Guardian Angela McKay v. Austin State Hospital, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
americans-with-disabilities-act deliberate-indifference disparate-treatment due-process intellectual-disability intervention-rights involuntary-commitment notice-requirements prop-207 property-taking rehabilitation-act sexual-assault sexual-assault
23-1109" summary-judgment Whether the State's taking of common HOA lands vio |
Whether an intellectually disabled woman who complained of rape and sexual assault while involuntarily committed to a State Hospital, but was disbelie… |
| 23-113 |
Michael G. Pohl v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
10-usc-1552 28-usc-1491 administrative-appeal administrative-procedure jurisdictional-challenge military-law military-records standard-of-review statutory-interpretation tucker-act |
What is the proper standard of review for an appeal to correct a military record under 10 U.S.C. § 1552 or 28 U.S.C. § 1491? |
| 23-118 |
Ashton R. O'Dwyer, Jr. v. Ron Carter, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
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civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal recusal sanctions standing |
Whether the failure of Federal District Judge Carl J. Barbier to recuse himself prior to his summary dismissal of an underlying civil diversity action… |
| 23-12 |
John Kowal v. Ferndale Area School District, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
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age-discrimination but-for-causation employee-benefits equal-cost-or-equal-benefit equal-protection medicare-eligibility older-workers-benefit-protection-act takings-clause |
Whether the prerequisite in Ferndale's 'Sick Leave Incentive' violates the ADEA and OWBPA |
| 23-127 |
Leonard Cooperman v. Social Security Administration |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation disciplinary-proceedings due-process free-speech public-sector-employment vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Is the 'conduct unbecoming' standard unconstitutionally vague and violative of due-process in a case involving free-speech concerns? |
| 23-129 |
Eddie Tardy v. Corrections Corporation of America, nka CoreCivic, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
civil-procedure court-records first-amendment intervention judicial-records judicial-standing public-access sealed-documents standing transparency transparency-rights |
Whether an intervenor's interest in transparency is sufficient to confer standing to seek access to sealed or protected judicial records |
| 23-132 |
Cynthia L. Pollick v. Anthony P. Trozzolillo |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights debtors-prison due-process equal-protection imprisonment statutory-interpretation |
Whether imprisoning a citizen for a divorce judgment of attorney fees violated 28 U.S.C. § 2007(a) since a citizen cannot be imprisoned for a money ju… |
| 23-136 |
Baldwin Maynard Brown v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
None |
|
| 23-137 |
Yvonne Crews v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law appellate-procedure clear-error congressional-intent effective-date federal-circuit statutory-interpretation substitution substitution-of-claimant veterans-benefits |
When Congress enacted 38 U.S.C. § 5121A to authorize for the substitution of a deceased claimant, was its intent clear that a substituted appellant co… |
| 23-143 |
Minnesota Automobile Dealers Association v. Minnesota Pollution Control Agency |
Minnesota |
Denied |
Response Waived |
california-standards california-waiver clean-air-act environmental-law federal-preemption maintenance-plans national-ambient-air-quality-standards nonattainment-areas state-regulation vehicle-emission-standards vehicle-emissions |
Whether Minnesota qualifies to adopt California's vehicle emission standards under the Clean Air Act |
| 23-144 |
Anthony Marciano v. Eric Adams, Mayor of the City of New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process emergency-use-authorization informed-consent municipal-vaccine-mandate quarantine quarantine-law state-law state-preemption vaccination |
Whether the Mayor of the City of New York, through his appointed police and health commissioners, acts without legislative authority by mandating muni… |
| 23-145 |
Aleksandra Shklyar v. Carboline Company |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion ada-pleadings americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion disability-discrimination due-process judicial-bias retaliation standing |
Did the Court abuse its discretion in dismissing the amended complaint for disability-discrimination,retaliation |
| 23-149 |
Sabine River Authority, Louisiana v. Perry Bonin, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11th-amendment civil-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment federal-court louisiana-civil-law sovereign-immunity state-agency subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether Louisiana's conditional waiver of sovereign immunity to allow suits against it to proceed only in Louisiana courts deprives federal courts of … |
| 23-162 |
Christian Winchel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure contemporaneous-evidence due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure plea-bargain plea-bargaining postconviction-review section-2255 standard-of-review |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has departed from the accepted and usual course of postconviction proceedings under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 |
| 23-172 |
Cynthia L. Pollick v. Anthony P. Trozzolillo |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-record-sealing judicial-records judicial-transparency speech-restraint standing |
Whether the complete sealing of a judicial record violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 23-18 |
Dana Marie Bernhardt, Personally and as the Administratrix of the Estate of Jeremy Wise, et al. v. HSBC Holdings PLC, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
|
aiding-and-abetting anti-terrorism-act banking-services financial-system international-terrorism justice-against-sponsors-of-terrorism-act personal-jurisdiction terrorism-financing |
Whether a foreign defendant who knowingly, willfully, and illegally moved or permitted billions of dollars to be moved through the U.S. financial syst… |
| 23-180 |
Juan Laborin-Ledes v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
None |
|
| 23-188 |
Robert Dayon Dumas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
credibility fifth-amendment fourth-amendment miranda-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrantless-search |
Did the district court err in finding no Fourth or Fifth Amendment violation based upon the court's credibility determination on Deputy Denbo? |
| 23-206 |
Jerry Lynn Burns v. Iowa |
Iowa |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-collection fourth-amendment privacy-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Does the State's warrantless search of a person's unavoidably shed DNA violate the Fourth Amendment where the individual has never been arrested or co… |
| 23-214 |
Juannelious Benjamin Murray, Sr. v. Safir Law P.L.C. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11-usc-362k1 attorney-fees automatic-stay bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-estate chapter-13 core-proceedings jurisdiction legal-services property-of-estate segal-v-rochelle |
Is it sound discretion for a bankruptcy court to disregard nearly sixty years of Supreme Court jurisprudence regarding what comprises property of a ba… |
| 23-228 |
Paule McKenna v. Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., et al. |
California |
Denied |
Response Waived |
advertising brand-logos celebrity-persona celebrity-rights commercial-speech commercial-use lanham-act motion-picture trademark-infringement |
Does the Lanham Act prohibit the unauthorized use of a celebrity's persona in advertising third party brands with logos in a commercial motion picture… |
| 23-230 |
Personalized Media Communication, LLC v. Apple Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
docket-management due-process equitable-doctrine patent patent-infringement patent-office patent-prosecution patent-validity prosecution-laches statutory-deadlines |
Whether prosecution laches can be based on an applicant's prosecution of a patent application in compliance with the PTO's docket-management decisions |
| 23-30 |
Argent Trust Company, et al. v. Robert Harrison |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
arbitration circuit-split civil-procedure class-action erisa federal-arbitration-act federal-law individual-arbitration statutory-claims statutory-interpretation |
Whether ERISA-claims can be compelled to individual-arbitration |
| 23-5039 |
Thomas E. Creech v. Tim Richardson, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
capital-sentencing death-row eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel psychopathy sixth-amendment |
Whether evidence of or reference to psychopathy should be treated as potentially mitigating or as categorically aggravating in capital sentencings |
| 23-5222 |
Mustafa Ali v. Jeffrey Minehart, Judge, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-provisions due-process habeas-corpus pcra-petition post-conviction-relief sentencing-discretion state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum void-for-vagueness |
Whether the PCRA Court abused its discretion in failing to convert Petitioner's State Habeas Petition into a PCRA Petition? |
| 23-5234 |
Cheryl Kristy Jenkins v. Mark Joseph Tengowski |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
IFP |
child-custody civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct protective-orders recusal standing |
Is it a violation of the Constitution for a judge to evaluate their own judge recusal and if they do should the case be vacated? |
| 23-5250 |
Jaleel Bertrand Franklin v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability counsel-statements due-process jurist-standard legal-deference logical-fallacy presumption-of-correctness racial-composition racial-makeup-of-venire state-created-barrier venire-panel |
Whether counsel's statements are entitled to 'double deference' or a presumption of correctness when such are premised entirely upon a logical fallacy… |
| 23-5251 |
Mark Edwin Guida v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment cell-phone-evidence criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment illegal-search probable-cause search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence warrant-requirement |
Was evidence presented at a trial for murder subject to the exclusionary rule, where said evidence was the result of an illegal search of the defendan… |
| 23-5253 |
Youssef Hoballah v. Virginia |
Virginia |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment structural-error trial-procedure |
Whether the defendant's plea agreement was invalid, and the defendant's conviction should be vacated, due to the defendant being incarcerated on an un… |
| 23-5255 |
Robert L. Swinton, Jr. v. Livingston County, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment access-to-courts actual-injury civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process medical-neglect monell-claim monell-policy prisoner-rights |
Is this the correct evaluation of the evidence for deliberate indifference and would the Monell policy standard be eroded by the evaluation of this ca… |
| 23-5269 |
Noble Christo El, aka Christopher Nathan Jones v. William Todd Miller, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
cause-of-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federalism jurisdiction legal-standing pleading-standards standing subject-matter-jurisdiction takings |
Whether the sovereignty vested in the people under the U.S. Constitution has been usurped by the states |
| 23-5271 |
Eric Villarreal v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure disability due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-standard legal-review mental-health psychological-disorder right-to-counsel |
Did the trial courts abuse its discretion by denying VeSendant and Repellant repeated request for new counsel |
| 23-5278 |
Earl Monroe Belcher v. Brian Williams, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
chain-of-custody constitutional-rights district-court dna-evidence due-process federal-law habeas-corpus hearsay ineffective-assistance reasonable-doubt unreasonable-application |
Whether the District Court's decision was an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law |
| 23-5279 |
Robert Annabel, II v. Joseph Novak, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process free-speech in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure lawsuit-dismissal prisoner-rights retaliation standing |
Should truthful prisoner complaints be protected conduct? |
| 23-5282 |
Clarence Leonard Hearns, Jr. v. Andrew Whisnand, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
absolute-immunity access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-conspiracy due-process first-amendment standing state-attorney-general |
Whether a state deputy attorney general has absolute immunity from suit for initiating criminal conspiracy? |
| 23-5286 |
Frederick Dwight Green v. Aimee Smith, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure cell-phones civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process gang-violence legal-materials prison-access prison-conditions prisoner-rights standing |
Does this Court consider widespread staff shortages in Georgia prisons that have led to prisoners being severely attacked by 'affiliated gang offender… |
| 23-5289 |
Willie Seth Crain, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance pleadings sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence |
Is it a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment right to Due Process to allow a conviction to stand where some of the elements of the crime were not est… |
| 23-5293 |
Alonzo G. Davison v. Rick Whitten, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals civil-procedure judgments motions sentences statutory-interpretation |
Whether Petitioner's Appeal OF The Denial OF The Motion Te Alter Of Amend Fudgment And Sentences Was 'Proper ly Filed' As Required By Section aatd (da… |
| 23-5294 |
Micky Don Wade v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure cronic-standard due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard |
Whether a state court may evaluate a Cronic claim under the more burdensome standard of Strickland |
| 23-5297 |
Tidiane Kone v. James Milburn, Superintendent, Spring Creek Correctional Center |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process exhaustion-requirement habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-remedies |
Question not identified |
| 23-5300 |
Sandro Ramos v. Chris Rankins |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-violation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech ineffective-assistance jury-misconduct standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the First Amendment's free speech protections |
| 23-5301 |
Mack A. West, Jr. v. F. Ulloa, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Did the federal courts of appeals err in rejecting petitioner's claims of due process and equal protection violations? |
| 23-5306 |
Kenneth Ray Holbert, Sr. v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-right direct-appeal ineffective-assistance legal-burden state-court state-court-procedure strickland-standard strickland-test summary-reversal two-pronged |
Where a Strickland claim is appropriately raised on direct appeal, may a state court add to the two-pronged Strickland test a burden of showing the tr… |
| 23-5307 |
Curt Daniel Crowder v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-process appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance remedy right-to-counsel right-to-present-witnesses trial-procedure trial-process |
When a citizen is deprived of the right to present witnesses in his defense, and effective assistance of counsel, in both the trial and appellate proc… |
| 23-5315 |
Jesse Dean Redfearn v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process sixth-amendment witness-obstruction |
Did the trial court and/or the prosecution violate the Sixth Amendment confrontation-clause and clearly-established-law by concealing the location of … |
| 23-5316 |
Aaron J. Bressi v. Tracy McCloud, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Dismissed |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure court-dismissal due-process failure-to-state-a-claim judicial-discretion legal-procedure pro-se-litigation public-interest standing |
How does this Complaint get dismissed by Both the Honorable District Court, and the Honorable Appeals Court, Sor Failure To State a Claim |
| 23-5318 |
Aaron J. Bressi v. John Gembic, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion case-dismissal civil-procedure complaint-dismissal court-procedure due-process failure-to-state-claim judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-review public-interest standing |
How does this Complaint get dismissed by Both the Honorable District Court, and the Honorable Appeals Court, Sor failure To State a Claim |
| 23-5323 |
Don Collins v. Rob Jeffreys, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appellate-review civil-rights court-dismissal document-access due-process evidence evidentiary-hearing foia foia-request institutional-bias procedural-fairness |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the case after granting leave to serve defendants, and in failing to address issues related to access to e… |
| 23-5325 |
Charles D. Adams v. Merit Systems Protection Board |
Federal Circuit |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
agency-collusion civil-rights collusion-between-an-mda-ses-and-dia-is-wrong-and- constitutional-violations due-process employer-discrimination equal-justice-under-the-law evidence-withholding sixth-amendment standing |
Whether CAFC made an error in their decision to dismiss CAFC 2023-1212 |
| 23-5328 |
Charles D. Adams v. Merit Systems Protection Board |
Federal Circuit |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights conflict-of-interest discrimination due-process evidence-withholding retaliation security-clearance sixth-amendment-rights standing |
Whether CAFC made an error in their decision to dismiss CAFC 2023-1213 |
| 23-5329 |
Charles D. Adams v. Merit Systems Protection Board |
Federal Circuit |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-records adverse-action civil-rights discrimination discrimination-complaint due-process equal-employment-opportunity evidence-withholding retaliation sixth-amendment wrongful-termination |
Whether CAFC made an error in their decision to dismiss CAFC 2023-1213 |
| 23-5330 |
Charles D. Adams v. Merit Systems Protection Board |
Federal Circuit |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest discrimination due-process employment-discrimination evidence-withholding impartiality judicial-recusal retaliation sixth-amendment-rights |
Whether CAFC made an error in their decision to dismiss CAFC 2023-1213 (DC. 3443-22-0386-I-1) |
| 23-5336 |
Maurice Walker v. Nicholas Lamb, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process felony-murder ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt |
Did the trial court err in applying the felony murder rule and submitting an incomplete jury verdict that violated the defendant's due process rights? |
| 23-5343 |
Scott Lindsay Halfhill v. Washington |
Washington |
Denied |
IFP |
alternative-suspect circumstantial-evidence criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Should this Court grant Certiorari when Halfhill was convicted of killing a man with intent upon nothing more than being one of many people in the vic… |
| 23-5350 |
Daniel Chris Ramsey v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights competency constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-procedure mental-health writ |
Whether the Constitution is violated when a petitioner with mental health issues is denied a competency hearing before facing trial |
| 23-5357 |
Carlos Edwin Smith, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a adult-sentencing adverse-childhood-experiences criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court judicial-discretion mitigation-factors relevancy sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a district court fully considers the factors set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) when sentencing a defendant if it questions the relevancy of adv… |
| 23-5359 |
James Thomas Burke v. Nick Deml, Commissioner, Vermont Department of Corrections, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-counsel due-process effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether Americans are lawfully entitled to conflict free defense counsel? |
| 23-5360 |
Gregory Lynn McCoy v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment constitutional-interpretation felon-in-possession firearm-regulation historical-tradition individual-rights lifetime-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the felon-in-possession of a firearm statute, which did not exist in 1791, and which applies to all felonies and provides for a life-time ban,… |
| 23-5365 |
Marcus Roosevelt Taylor v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
asset-forfeiture civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-proceeds drug-trafficking due-process mandatory-victim-restitution-act restitution restitution-order |
Whether the $228,304 restitution order infringes upon Marcus Taylor's constitutional rights |
| 23-5368 |
Larry Scott Reynolds v. Brian Eller, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default sixth-circuit |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in denying petitioner a COA? |
| 23-5377 |
Anthony Seides Gaines v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924c categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause hobbs-act physical-force statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A) |
| 23-5378 |
Frank J. Capozzi v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation fourth-amendment franks-hearing fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court miscarriage-of-justice probable-cause search-warrant |
Was the State search warrant obtained based on fraudulent, deceptive, misleading, and omitted statements |
| 23-5379 |
Everett Charles Wills, II v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actus-reus counsel-concession criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea retroactivity right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-strategy |
When guilt is the sole issue for the jury to decide, is it permissible for counsel to unilaterally concede the essential elements (actus reus and mens… |
| 23-5382 |
Julie A. Graham v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-charges due-process employee-suspension employment employment-law hearing-requirements |
Whether an employer's indefinite suspension of an employee without a pre-suspension hearing violates the employee's due process rights |
| 23-5384 |
Wayne Lee Johnson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review attorney-withdrawal civil-procedure court-discretion due-process judicial-process legal-petition merits-review procedural-issue supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the lower court should have allowed counsel to withdraw from petitioner's appeal, knowing the petitioner had issues of merit for an appeal on … |
| 23-5389 |
Wilfredo Rodriguez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split colorable-claim criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion judicial-response sentencing sentencing-argument |
Where a federal criminal defendant raises a colorable sentencing argument, must the district court acknowledge and respond to it? |
| 23-5390 |
Neeraj Chopra v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process essential-elements indictment indictment-modification jury-instruction jury-instructions sexual-assault sexual-contact statutory-interpretation |
Whether a jury instruction constructively amends an indictment by modifying the essential elements of the offense charged |
| 23-5391 |
Walter Raul Maguina v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence extrinsic-evidence harmless-error judicial-procedure prejudice prejudicial-evidence remand |
Whether a district court's failure to address the prejudicial nature of extrinsic evidence requires remand |
| 23-5392 |
Angelo Joseph Fernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law domestic-violence mens-rea prior-conviction recklessness sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Does the petitioner's prior conviction for corporal injury to a spouse or cohabitant under California Penal Code § 273.5(a) qualify as a crime of viol… |
| 23-5396 |
Antoine Clark v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause title-iii wiretap wiretap-law |
Whether law enforcement's self-created exigent circumstances justify a Title III wiretap? |
| 23-5398 |
Charles Michael Ledford v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment amendment constitutional-rights district-court-review due-process federal-procedure federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-15 habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief |
Whether district courts violate fundamental principles of due process under the Fifth Amendment by denying a § 2255 movant's request to amend their pl… |
| 23-5401 |
Rayshawn J. Christmas v. Unknown Wedd, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure magistrate-judge pro-se pro-se-litigation section-1983 standing |
Why did the court deny Mr. Christmas at least one chance to amend, if it is possible to fix what court thank is wrong with Mr. Christmas's complaint |
| 23-5403 |
Luis Alfredo Moreira Bravo v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent criminal-law due-process federal-statute federal-transportation-of-a-minor interstate-transportation mens-rea minor-age sexual-offense statutory-interpretation statutory-rape |
Whether an individual may be convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 2423(a) for transportation of a minor, without regard to whether the defendant knew of the in… |
| 23-5405 |
David Petersen v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights court-errors due-process fourteenth-amendment integrity-of-judicial-process judicial-discretion judicial-process material-errors securities-fraud |
Is it a violation of due process when any court makes no effort to address or remedy material abuses of discretion and material errors on the record? |
| 23-5407 |
Corey A. Askew v. Paul Bailey, Sheriff, Berrien County, Michigan |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
but no text was provided for analysis. Without th but no text was provided for me to analyze. Witho I cannot generate a meaningful question presented I cannot generate the question presented or ident indigenous-rights international-law self-determination supremacy-clause treaty-obligations united-nations |
Are the self-determination clauses in the United Nations treaties and customary rules of international law to which the United States are a party bind… |
| 23-5409 |
Peter Fratus v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
evidence-admissibility kars4kids prejudicial-effect probative-value rep-waters third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit properly weighed the probative value with the prejudicial effect when admitting the messages to Kars4Kids and Rep. Waters to… |
| 23-5412 |
Keith Allen Shrum v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process electronic-evidence evidence exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant warrant-specificity warrantless-search |
Whether the exigent circumstances exception saves a warrantless seizure of a defendant's phone |
| 23-5419 |
Seth Williams v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-authority mandatory-minimum rehaif-doctrine sentencing sentencing-modification |
Does the District Court have authority to change a sentence after 12 years? |
| 23-5424 |
Caesar V. Vaca v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights-restoration constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law felony-possession habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel restoration-of-civil-rights second-amendment |
Whether reasonable jurist could debate that trial and appellate counsel failed to invoke 18 U.S.C. §921(a)(20) |
| 23-5425 |
Marlon Abraham Rosasen v. Thea Marie Rosasen |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process emotional-abuse ex-parte-order habitual-residence hague-convention international-child-abduction parental-rights return-remedy |
Whether the order to vacate trial ex-parte in chambers, revoking granted oral arguments and cross examination, was constitutional |
| 23-5426 |
Christopher Robertson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-robbery constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-law federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act jury-instructions misstatement-of-law residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether a defendant can be convicted of a 924(c) offense if the defendant was convicted of attempted Hobbs Act robbery |
| 23-5428 |
Hector Gastelum Valenzuela v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement motel-room motel-search probable-cause protective-sweep search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether the mere presence of a person in a motel room—that officers believe contains drugs and a gun—creates exigent circumstances sufficient to justi… |
| 23-5430 |
Demitri Brown, aka Timothy D. Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
antitrust civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-precedent stare-decisis vertical-restraints |
Does the Bb Circuit Court of Appeals abuse its discretion when it refuses to honor the Supreme Court's Conception ruling overruling its Leegin decisio… |
| 23-5432 |
Kyle Vaughn v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-presumption presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard rita-precedent rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may rebut an appellate … |
| 23-5433 |
Kingsley Azubuike Ononuju v. Virginia Housing Development Authority, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 agency-regulation constitutional-rights fourth-circuit improper-eviction rule-12b6 rule-60(b)(4) rule-60b4 section-1983 tila tila-claim void-judgment |
Did the Fourth Circuit err in affirming the district court's rulings |
| 23-5434 |
Lamar Victor Moncrieffe v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct double-jeopardy fifth-amendment jury-determination jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether a district court violates a defendant's Fifth Amendment and Sixth Amendment rights by basing a substantial four-level sentencing enhancement o… |
| 23-5435 |
Marques Webb v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-default waiver |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Webb's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement |
| 23-5437 |
Adedayo Hakeem Sanusi v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split due-process fundamental-fairness sentencing-guidelines sophisticated-means substantive-reasonableness upward-variance |
Whether the Appellant is deprived of Due Process |
| 23-5439 |
Steven Huffman v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act borden-v-united-states circuit-conflict circuit-split force-clause marks-rule marks-v-united-states mental-state reckless-assault violent-felony |
Whether knowing conduct not intentionally designed to harm a targeted person satisfies the force clause definition of violent felony in 924(e)(2)(B)(1… |
| 23-5440 |
Roman Andreyevich Glukhoy v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review chapman-standard chapman-v-california criminal-procedure harmless-error jury-instructions legal-theory prejudice prejudicial-error standard-of-review |
When a defendant is convicted after a trial court instructs a jury on two theories of guilt, one of which is legally correct and one legally incorrect… |
| 23-5445 |
William Bazemore v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion crime-of-violence criminal-procedure district-court factual-findings guilty-plea section-1591 sex-trafficking voluntariness withdrawal |
Whether the district court abused its discretion when it denied defendant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea and failed to make factual findings nec… |
| 23-5449 |
Antonio Rojas 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? |
| 23-5450 |
Hermenegildo Garcia-Gutierrez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5451 |
Raul Omar Rios-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-appeal judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5453 |
Pedro Ramirez-Urbina v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment alien-smuggling burden-of-proof causation causation-standard criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentence-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth or Sixth Amendments prohibit conduct for which Ramirez was acquitted from being used to enhance his sentence for alien-smuggling |
| 23-5456 |
John E. Gilcrease v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review consecutive-sentence constitutional-rights due-process judicial-vindictiveness north-carolina-v-pearce plea-bargaining remand sentencing-modification |
Were John Gilcrease's due process rights violated when the court imposed a more onerous, consecutive sentence after his original sentence was vacated … |
| 23-5461 |
Joshua David Giddings v. Austin Knudsen, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights equal-protection first-amendment free-speech standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause |
| 23-5462 |
Victor Manuel Solorzano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split first-step-act intervening-law mandate-rule resentencing sentencing sentencing-package |
Does Section 403 of the First Step Act apply to post-Act resentencing hearings? |
| 23-5466 |
Toddell Alexander v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment non-physical-harm prisoner-treatment sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether Ohio's Domestic Violence Statute is categorically a violent felony in light of Samuel Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015) |
| 23-5467 |
Anthony Andrews v. R. Ramos, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction legal-procedure standing statutory-provisions supreme-court writ |
Question not identified |
| 23-5469 |
Peonte Shamar Spencer v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-circuit hobbs-act standing statutory-interpretation violent-conduct |
Question not identified |
| 23-5473 |
Arnez J. Salazar v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arizona-v-gant closed-container fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reaching-distance search-incident-to-arrest secured-arrestee vehicle-search warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits a warrantless search incident to arrest when the arrestee is secured and not within reaching distance of a closed… |
| 23-5475 |
Elmer Wayne Zahn v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
color-of-authority exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment gross-negligence police-misconduct probable-cause reckless-disregard warrant-database warrant-system |
Does police misconduct in maintaining an inaccurate warrant database violate the Fourth Amendment? |
| 23-5477 |
James Thomas Butler, II v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consent consent-search digital-evidence due-process forensic-extraction fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure search-and-seizure smartphone smartphone-privacy |
Does consent to 'take a look' at a smartphone extend to a full forensic extraction? |
| 23-5478 |
Bradley Monical v. Jeremy M. Nofziger, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process foundational-facts standing statutory-provisions |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions governing the case |
| 23-5483 |
Dontavious Blake v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence-prejudice ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias plea-bargaining prejudice sentencing |
The Appellate Court erred in denying relief for IOC concerning the advice that petitioner would receive a life sentence after either a guilty plea or … |
| 23-5484 |
Dion Ray Wheeler 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? |
| 23-5486 |
Gilberto Gonzalez-Gonzalez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-shifting carella-v-california criminal-trial due-process francis-v-franklin joint-possession jury-instructions legal-precedent mandatory-presumptions |
Whether jury instructions on joint possession violated due process |
| 23-5487 |
Jose Humberto Hernandez-Mendez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 23-5488 |
Dywane Tousant v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review motion-denial ninth-circuit standard-of-review substantial-showing |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Erred in Denying Tousant's Motion for Certificate of Appealability |
| 23-5490 |
Franklin Paul Eller, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation probable-cause search-warrant severance-doctrine warrant-overbreadth |
Is severance of any overbroad warrant a permissible exception to the exclusionary rule |
| 23-5497 |
Malik Woods v. District Attorney of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus procedural-review standing supreme-court-precedent third-circuit-court |
Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals run contrary to clearly established Supreme Court precedent |
| 23-5499 |
Manuel De Jesus Del Cid Bran v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deportation discretionary-sentencing sentencing-commission supervised-release |
Does a district court abuse its discretion under 18 U.S.C. § 3583 by imposing a term of supervised release on a deportable noncitizen purely in order … |
| 23-5503 |
Roman Alvarado, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-authority delegation-of-authority due-process federal-sentencing judicial-authority judicial-delegation probation-officer sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Does Standard Condition 12 unconstitutionally delegate judicial authority to the probation officer? |
| 23-5504 |
Jabriel Fitzgerald Lakes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
classification criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-criminal-procedure incarceration-classification judicial-error presentence-report recidivism right-to-appeal sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Did the District Court commit error that substantively violated Lakes' right when it failed to include the disputes of the objection to the PSR which … |
| 23-5506 |
Alisbey Santillon Gata v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-law constitutional-powers criminal-law criminal-offense interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element statutory-interpretation |
Whether a jurisdictional element satisfied by a de minimis connection to interstate commerce is sufficient to bring a purely local, non-economic crimi… |
| 23-5507 |
Carlos Green v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment leasehold-transfer motion-to-suppress privacy-interest probable-cause real-estate search-and-seizure |
Whether the Trial Court Erred and Violated Petitioner's Fourth Amendment Rights |
| 23-5509 |
Vincent D. White, Jr. v. Michael Phillips, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adverse-effect concurrent-conflict conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance
23-5508" mickens-standard post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment state-court trial-counsel Whether a state court's denial of post-conviction |
Whether a criminal-defense attorney, under indictment on charges of rape, kidnapping, and sexual assault, has a conflict of interest when simultaneous… |
| 23-5511 |
Jay F. Elhage v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-interpretation criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process enumerated-powers federal-prosecution federalism legislative-authority state-prosecution |
Whether Congress has authority to criminally punish under the Commerce Clause |
| 23-5512 |
Robinson Mendoza-Gomez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure double-counting due-process enhancement-application federal-sentencing governmental-officer obstruction-of-justice sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the guidelines' enhancement for obstruction of justice requires some conduct above and beyond the conduct comprising the offense of conviction |
| 23-5515 |
Carmen Saldana Meyer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure extraterritorial-jurisdiction federal-kidnapping-act foreign-commerce jurisdictional-basis jury-instructions kidnapping united-states unlawful-act |
Whether the Federal Kidnapping Act authorizes a conviction where the foreign commerce jurisdictional basis was the defendant's travel in foreign comme… |
| 23-5517 |
Kamar Laquan Cox v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquittal criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-acquittal jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted … |
| 23-5518 |
Willie J. Gamble v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Question not identified |
| 23-5519 |
Octavio Cortez Fierros v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law child-pornography civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment judicial-review legal-precedent sexual-exploitation standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the petitioner's convictions for possession of child pornography and sexual exploitation of children violate the First Amendment and the Due P… |
| 23-5522 |
Javier Guerra v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure drug-quantities fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentence-enhancement sentencing-enhancement strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Was the defense counsel ineffective according to the Strickland v. Washington 466 U.S. 668 (1984) precedent when failing to alert Guerra about potenti… |
| 23-5523 |
Cedrick L. Jones v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-oath judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief standing state-constitution |
Whether a Florida court judge has the right to not comply with federal laws and the Florida constitution when it comes to a loyalty oath |
| 23-5524 |
Michael Jones, Jason Reed, and Shaun Myers v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof daubert daubert-standard dual-role-testimony due-process evidence expert-witness fifth-amendment standard-of-review |
Whether the Seventh Circuit applied the wrong standard of review and erroneously shifted the burden of proof by failing to review the Daubert error de… |
| 23-5526 |
Adelfo Rodriguez-Mendez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-standard constitutional-violation criminal-procedure drug-attribution evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment post-conviction-sentencing sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether attributing drugs post-conviction in an amount greater than what is charged in an indictment and greater than what the jury found is in violat… |
| 23-5531 |
Shawn Andrew Crabtree v. Oregon Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision |
Oregon |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process ex-post-facto oregon-board-of-parole parole retroactive-laws sentencing |
Is the Ex Post Facto Clause violated when prison officials take away a determinate release date and exchange it with an indeterminate release date bas… |
| 23-5535 |
Michael Rocky Lane v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-claim brady-rule circuit-split clear-and-convincing-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard federal-jurisdiction federal-law habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation |
Whether the circuit courts have decided an important question of federal law that should be definitively settled by this court? |
| 23-5537 |
Euphrates Earl Bean v. Virginia |
Virginia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation contract-rights contracts due-process equal-rights judicial-review standing takings vested-rights |
Was there an 'obligation of contracts' inferred? |
| 23-5539 |
Trezjuan Thompson v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-of-appeals circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deficient-performance ineffective-assistance new-rule-doctrine new-rule-of-law sentencing-counsel supreme-court-precedents |
How far afield from prior criminal sentencing cases does a doctrinal opinion from a regional circuit court of appeals have to go before it qualifies a… |
| 23-5540 |
Michael Rinaldi v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment acquitted-conduct criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial ratio-decidendi sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the use of acquitted conduct sentencing violates the Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial |
| 23-5544 |
Juan L. Leonor v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rule due-process federal-law judicial-legislation procedural-rule retroactive-review retroactivity substantive-decision substantive-rule supremacy-clause |
Whether the Federal Constitution prohibits a state court from denying consideration of a federal claim brought after petitioner's convictions became f… |
| 23-5547 |
Timothy James Hahn v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment sentencing |
Whether a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on a defendant who was under the age of twenty-five at the time of the offen… |
| 23-5550 |
Joseph Jones v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver circuit-court civil-procedure contractual-law due-process plea-agreement sentence-appeal-waiver sentencing standing |
Whether the Appellant's rights were violated when the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals enforced a sentence appeal waiver in a plea agreement that was… |
| 23-5554 |
Cameron L. Hickman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process jury-instructions prosecutorial-burden reasonable-doubt sexual-assault standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the prosecution presented sufficient evidence at trial to establish the elements of the alleged crime |
| 23-5555 |
Alfredo Garcia-Aleman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5560 |
Anthony Ravon Ruffin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts jones-v-hendrix judicial-review ninth-circuit rehab-act standing |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals violated the Fifteenth Amendment |
| 23-5561 |
In Re Reginald L. Shumpert |
|
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review suspension-clause |
Whether the unavailability of habeas corpus relief and other forms of judicial review violates the Suspension Clause and Due Process Clause of the U.S… |
| 23-5569 |
Francisco Gutierrez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure criminal-procedure de-novo-resentencing de-novo-review judicial-discretion law-of-case law-of-the-case open-record resentencing sentencing |
Does law of the case apply to an appeal from a de novo resentencing on an open record? |
| 23-5573 |
Lashun Tracy Tinnen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-precedent performance-evaluation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-test |
Was the defense counsel ineffective under Strickland v. Washington? |
| 23-5574 |
Ramone L. Wright v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-process notice-requirement self-representation sixth-amendment trial-preparation |
Whether the trial court's denial of the defendant's right to self-representation and effective assistance of counsel constitutes a violation of the Si… |
| 23-5578 |
April Paw v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 23-5583 |
Fernando Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence double-counting felon-in-possession fifth-amendment preponderance-of-the-evidence preponderance-standard relevant-conduct sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether alleged possession of a different gun 17 months after Mr. Lopez's charged felon-in-possession offense constituted relevant-conduct |
| 23-5586 |
Nestor Leon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review brady-violation circuit-court civil-procedure court-procedure document-submission due-process evidentiary-hearing legal-dismissal petition-process standing subpoena-duces-tecum |
Did the Eleventh Circuit clerk err in dismissing the petitioner's case after the petitioner provided all requested documents? |
| 23-5587 |
Daniel Carrington v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof causation controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law death-causation due-process proximate-cause reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court's decision in United States v. Burrage created a bright line rule on proof of proximate cause |
| 23-5590 |
In Re Jamar L. Williams |
|
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-proceedings |
Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated when the state court denied his request for an evidentiary hearing to present newly discover… |
| 23-76 |
Palani Karupaiyan v. Infosys BPM, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
|
appeal appellate-review civil-rights due-process extraordinary-review judicial-procedure mandamus mandamus-relief pro-se-complaint standing sua-sponte-dismissal |
whether-the-district-court-erred-in-sua-sponte-dismissing-the-complaint-before-requiring-the-defendants-to-answer |
| 23-77 |
Palani Karupaiyan v. Tata Consultancy Services, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
|
appeal appellate-review civil-rights due-process extraordinary-review jurisdictional-error mandamus mandamus-relief pro-se-complaint standing sua-sponte-dismissal |
Whether the district court erred in sua sponte dismissing the pro se civil-rights complaint before requiring the defendants to answer, and whether the… |
| 23-78 |
Palani Karupaiyan v. Arnaud Vaissie, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure claim-preclusion dismissal-on-the-merits judgment-on-merits mandamus mandamus-relief moses-h-cone-memorial-hospital-v-mercury-construct pleading-deficiencies preclusion procedural-dismissal semtek-v-lockheed |
Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims on preclusive grounds despite the dismissal being based on pleading deficiencies … |
| 23-79 |
Palani Karupaiyan v. Lee Solomon, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment civil-procedure due-process national-importance parental-rights property-rights section-1982 takings writ-of-mandamus |
Whether the Supreme Court should grant certiorari to address the issues of national importance, property-rights, parental-rights, due-process, takings… |
| 23-83 |
Martine Bernard v. Christopher Hodyl |
Colorado |
Denied |
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14th-amendment contract-coercion court-ordered court-ordered-visitation due-process fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-contract procedural-due-process state-court visiting-supervisor |
Whether a state court's denial of the freedom of contract violates the 14th Amendment |
| 23-85 |
James Giehl v. Bank of America |
Florida |
Denied |
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18-U.S.C.-Sec.-242 4th-amendment civil-case civil-rights color-of-law foreclosure-process fourth-amendment judicial-misconduct void-decision void-decisions |
Do Florida Judges have the ability to depart from a person's 4th-Amendment-Rights and violate the 'color-of-law-18-U.S.C.-Sec.-242 code to avoid corre… |
| 23-86 |
Christopher Bayre Chamberlin v. Hartog, Baer & Hand, APC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access-to-courts appellate-review attorney-malpractice civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process legal-ethics legal-malpractice pro-se-litigation |
Whether HBH's concealment of its family relationship with the adverse party violated the petitioner's constitutional rights to freely associate and ma… |
| 23-87 |
Cody A. Craig v. Emma R. Solorzano |
Maine |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process first-amendment free-exercise judicial-discretion parental-rights religious-freedom |
Does a court decision limiting parental rights based on disapproval of a parent's religious views violate the Free Exercise Clause? |
| 23-92 |
James Edwin Hoganson v. Colorado |
Colorado |
Denied |
|
aggravating-circumstances apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process jury-determination jury-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment requires the existence of 'extraordinary aggravating circumstances' to be submitted to the jury and found beyond a reasona… |
| 23-96 |
Fulton County, Pennsylvania, et al. v. Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-i-section-4 constitutional-authority contempt-sanction county-boards-of-elections dominion-voting dominion-voting-systems election-board election-law election-procedures pennsylvania-general-assembly pennsylvania-supreme-court voting-rights |
Did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court err in holding Petitioners, County Board of Elections, in contempt for conducting an inspection of voting machines … |
| 23-99 |
Wendy B. Adelson v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC, nka PHH Mortgage Corporation, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
|
bankruptcy-stay civil-procedure due-process foreclosure foreclosure-sale mortgage-acceleration mortgage-lender post-acceleration-charges procedural-exception sheriff-sale time-bar |
Whether post-acceleration charges and fraudulent foreclosure sale adjournment notices constitute irregularities to invalidate the sheriff's deed |
| 23A139 |
Siddhanth Sharma v. Damon Circosta, Chair, North Carolina State Board of Elections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
ballot-access elections-clause felon-disqualification first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-party-affiliation |
Whether state ballot access requirements—including voter registration, political party affiliation for a specified period, and felon disqualification—… |
| 23A152 |
Michael Lajeunesse v. Kris Karberg, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
fourteenth-amendment physician-patient-privilege prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver-of-privilege |
Whether a state prosecutor may compel a defendant to waive physician-patient privilege without adequate constitutional safeguards protecting the defen… |
| 23A16 |
Thomas Stalcup v. Department of Defense |
First Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 23A197 |
Roger Bradford v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
Question not identified. |
| 23A210 |
Mark Bochra v. Department of Education, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
Question not identified. |
| 23A230 |
Nadine Gazzola, et al. v. Kathleen Hochul, Governor of New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
Question not identified. |
| 23M25 |
Robert Brumfield v. Christina McComas |
West Virginia |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 23M26 |
Tara McCluskey El v. Celebrity Cruises, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
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