Conference: 2023-10-27

140 cases — 0 granted, 140 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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22-1116 Klamath Irrigation District v. United States Bureau of Reclamation, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied civil-procedure federal-agency federal-government native-american-tribes sovereign-immunity state-adjudication water-rights Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 19 requires dismissal of an action challenging a federal agency's use of water subject to state-adjudicated wa…
22-1151 City of Arlington, Texas v. De'On Crane, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arrest-warrant fourth-amendment municipal-liability qualified-immunity reasonable-officer-standard traffic-stop use-of-force whren-v-united-states Where a suspect with an outstanding felony arrest warrant refuses repeated commands to turn off his car and exit the vehicle, would a reasonable offic…
22-1157 Craig Roper v. De'On Crane, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment civil-rights deadly-force excessive-force objective-reasonableness officer-safety police-conduct police-intervention qualified-immunity use-of-force vehicle-stop Whether an objective police officer could have believed it reasonable to shoot a person who had warrants for his arrest, had locked the doors and rais…
22-1209 PDVSA U.S. Litigation Trust, et al. v. LUKOIL Pan Americas LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure executive-branch foreign-government judicial-review jurisdictional-challenge political-question-doctrine standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the application of the political question doctrine deprives a court of subject matter jurisdiction
22-1219 Relentless, Inc., et al. v. Department of Commerce, et al. First Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (14)Relisted (2) administrative-law agency-deference agency-power chevron chevron-deference federal-observers fishery-management magnuson-stevens-act marine-fisheries regulatory-interpretation statutory-interpretation Whether the Court should overrule Chevron or at least clarify that statutory silence concerning controversial powers expressly but narrowly granted el…
22-1241 Jocelyn M. Murphy, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (2) broker-registration due-process eighth-amendment fair-notice securities-exchange-act-1934 securities-law securities-laws securities-violations seventh-amendment statutory-penalty statutory-penalty-caps Whether the courts below exceeded the statutory penalty caps established by Congress 'for each violation' of the securities laws, depriving Petitioner…
22-7309 James H. Roane, Jr., and Richard Tipton v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied IFP continuing-criminal-enterprise covered-offense criminal-enterprise drug-weight drug-weight-threshold fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-range Whether the First Step Act's 'covered offense' analysis turns upon whether the Fair Sentencing Act modified the sentencing range for violation of a gi…
22-7471 Renzo Alegre v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split constitutional-law first-amendment internet-access sex-offenders supervised-release Does the constitutional holding of Packingham v. North Carolina apply to offenders on supervised release?
22-7851 George Poulo v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP child-pornography civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process free-speech minor-exploitation sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction Whether a person 'uses' a minor 'to engage in' sexually explicit conduct, and thereby produces child pornography, when he creates a visual image of hi…
22-7855 Edgar Dawson v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP child-pornography civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law free-speech minor-exploitation sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction Whether a person 'uses' a minor 'to engage in' sexually explicit conduct, and thereby produces child pornography, when he creates a visual image of hi…
22-912 James King v. Douglas Brownback, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (3)Relisted (4) circuit-split common-law common-law-backdrop federal-tort-claims-act judgment-bar res-judicata statutory-interpretation Whether the Federal Tort Claims Act's judgment bar, 28 U.S.C. 2676, which this Court has repeatedly said functions in much the same way as the common-…
22-990 Bright Harry, et al. v. KCG Americas LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure free-speech judicial-procedure pro-se-litigation standing summary-judgment Whether the Ninth Circuit has statutory authority to deny oral argument to indigent and unrepresented litigants by applying incorrect standards, in co…
23-152 Alicia Lowe, et al. v. Janet T. Mills, Governor of Maine, et al. First Circuit Denied Can a court judgment be entirely untrue and violat child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte legal-standing parental-rights preemption religious-accommodation supremacy-clause title-vii undue-hardship Whether compliance with state laws directly contrary to Title VII's requirement to provide a reasonable accommodation may serve as an undue hardship j…
23-155 Isaac Luna Ashton v. Rick Whitten, Warden Tenth Circuit Denied aedpa certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals district-court evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel tenth-circuit Whether the United States District Court erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability
23-157 Samuel O. Jacobs v. Kent Jacobs, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-amendment federal-procedure rooker-feldman-doctrine sovereign-immunity Can a State Court use the 11th Amendment, Soverign Immunity, and the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine to justify or allow it to violate the 14th, 8th, 5th, and…
23-158 Dora L. Adkins v. Fitness International, LLC Fourth Circuit Denied civil-procedure complaint-dismissal dismissal district-court district-court-order emergency-complaint fourth-circuit in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion standing Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit properly affirmed the district court's order denying the plaintiff's requests and dismissing …
23-161 Megan Kathryn Sullivan v. Amanda Marie Seaton Georgia Denied 14th-amendment adoption child-custody due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment judicial-review parental-rights step-parent-adoption termination-of-rights Does a State violate a fit mother's 14th Amendment due process rights?
23-169 CraneVeyor Corp. v. City of Rancho Cucamonga, California Ninth Circuit Denied due-process economic-impact government-action investment-backed-expectations lucas-v-south-carolina penn-central property-rights regulatory-takings takings zoning-regulation Should this Court overrule or reconsider Penn Central Transportation Co. v. City of New York?
23-174 Richard Rynn v. First Transit, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-rights dismissal due-process employer-liability false-accusations legal-standing procedural-hearing Can case be dismissed without a hearing?
23-177 Terrence Fitch v. Thomas McAdams, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived accardi-doctrine agency-regulations civil-procedure due-process government-officials standing subject-matter-jurisdiction turner-hearing turner-v-rogers Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in determining subject-matter-jurisdiction
23-184 Karen M. Suber v. VVP Services, LLC, et al. Second Circuit Denied articulable-nexus civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment inconsistent-application jurisdiction long-arm-statute personal-jurisdiction standard-of-review substantial-relationship Whether the courts sitting in New York have inconsistently interpreted and applied the standard for the 'arising from' prong of the New York Long-Arm …
23-187 Michael Ramon Ochoa v. Arthur Levine, et al. Pennsylvania Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure cloud-based-evidence cloud-computing constitutional-jurisdiction discovery evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence hipaa-privacy-rule judicial-procedure medical-records rule-32 Are the cloud-based #NewOrganon and the dashboard tools attached as exhibits admissible as models per Rule 32 of this Court?
23-205 Armando Matadi v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived None
23-211 Joseph G. Wortley v. James Juranitch, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived bad-faith bad-faith-filing bankruptcy bankruptcy-petition business-divorce closely-held-business closely-held-company deadlock insider-filing involuntary-bankruptcy involuntary-petition Whether an insider's involuntary bankruptcy petition against his closely-held business for the express purpose of 'breaking a deadlock' or to get a 'b…
23-22 Save Jobs USA v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. District of Columbia Denied administrative-law agency-authority department-of-homeland-security employment-authorization executive-power immigration-law major-questions-doctrine nonimmigrant-visas statutory-interpretation Are the statutory terms defining nonimmigrant visas in 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(15) mere threshold entry requirements that cease to apply once an alien is a…
23-221 Andrew H. Zoellick v. Wisconsin Wisconsin Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment jurisprudential-definition mitigating-factors probable-cause reasonable-suspicion totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances Whether the absence of any jurisprudential definition of the term 'totality' has led to the degradation of the Fourth Amendment totality of the circum…
23-240 David L. Smith v. Securities and Exchange Commission Second Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-relief disgorgement due-process judicial-review rule-60b4 sec-enforcement standing takings void-judgment Is Petitioner entitled to collateral relief from an extra-legal 'disgorgement' order, which the SEC had no power to obtain, and the district court had…
23-247 S. C., Mother v. Philadelphia Department of Human Services, et al. Pennsylvania Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process factual-findings judicial-review legal-error misapplication-of-law state-court-opinion Did the Pennsylvania Courts' decisions constitute erroneous factual findings and/or misapplications of law, and deny Petitioner due process?
23-266 Javaar Yavonnie Kalem Watkins v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-error conviction-reversal criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt structural-error Was the reasonable doubt instruction constitutionally deficient thereby requiring reversal of Watkins' conviction?
23-280 Darrell Gaebel v. United States Polo Association Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived actionable-harm civil-rights defamation disciplinary-hearing due-process free-speech legal-process private-association publication Whether a private association can commit actionable defamation by publicizing defamatory material during a legally improper disciplinary hearing, even…
23-286 Windsor Oakridge Healthcare Center, LP, et al. v. Valerie Turner, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split complete-preemption covered-countermeasure federal-jurisdiction federal-removal PREP-Act public-health-emergency willful-misconduct Does the PREP Act completely preempt state-law claims against a covered person relating to the administration or use of a covered countermeasure, such…
23-288 Novato Healthcare Center, LLC, et al. v. Angelina Martinez Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split complete-preemption covered-countermeasure federal-jurisdiction federal-removal PREP-Act public-health-emergency willful-misconduct Does the PREP Act completely preempt state-law claims against a covered person relating to the administration or use of a covered countermeasure, such…
23-292 Riverside Healthcare and Wellness Centre, LLC, et al. v. Latifa Khan, Individually and as Heir and Successor in Interest to Nafiu Khan, Deceased Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split complete-preemption covered-countermeasure federal-jurisdiction federal-removal PREP-Act public-health-emergency willful-misconduct Does the PREP Act completely preempt state-law claims against a covered person relating to the administration or use of a covered countermeasure, such…
23-293 Pomona Healthcare and Wellness Center, dba Park Avenue Healthcare and Wellness Center v. Brenda Thomas, Individually and as Heir and Successor in Interest to Larry Charles Jackson Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived complete-preemption covered-countermeasure federal-jurisdiction federal-removal PREP-Act public-health-emergency state-law-claims willful-misconduct Does the PREP Act completely preempt state-law claims against a covered person relating to the administration or use of a covered countermeasure, such…
23-294 San Pablo Healthcare & Wellness Center, LLC v. Lynetta Westbrook Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights covered-countermeasure emergency-preparedness federal-jurisdiction federal-removal preemption public-health public-health-emergency removal willful-misconduct Does the PREP Act completely preempt state-law claims against a covered person relating to the administration or use of a covered countermeasure, such…
23-295 San Marino Gardens Wellness Center, LP, dba Pasadena Park Healthcare and Wellness Center v. Susan Olmes, Individually and as Heir and Successor in Interest to the Estate of Michael Olmes Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split complete-preemption covered-countermeasure federal-jurisdiction federal-removal PREP-Act public-health-emergency willful-misconduct Does the PREP Act completely preempt state-law claims against a covered person relating to the administration or use of a covered countermeasure, such…
23-297 Lawrence T. Newman v. Robert York Indiana Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion res-judicata Whether the Indiana courts' judgments violated Newman's Constitutional rights to due process by denying hearings, imposing punitive attorney fee award…
23-301 James E. Workman v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived criminal-intent criminal-law disability-benefits due-process fraud government-funds mens-rea reporting-obligation social-security social-security-fraud wire-fraud Whether the criminal charges of wire fraud, theft of government funds, and social security fraud required proof that the defendant understood his obli…
23-302 Bryce Watkins v. Brian Wunderlich, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived co-occupant-rights consent consent-search domestic-violence express-refusal fourth-amendment home-entry shared-dwelling warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the police to enter a shared dwelling solely based on consent, when a physically present resident recently has ex…
23-304 Thomas Neilsen v. John Kellner, in His Official Capacity as District Attorney, et al. Colorado Denied Response Waived black-letter-law brady-rule civil-rights declaratory-relief due-process heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey mooney-v-holohan prosecutorial-misconduct section-1983 supreme-court-precedent Does 'Heck' or any other procedural issue bar a section 1983 petition asking for declaratory and injunctive relief when a prosecutor defiantly fails t…
23-306 The TriZetto Group, Inc., et al. v. Syntel Sterling Best Shores Mauritius Limited, et al. Second Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived actual-loss avoided-costs circuit-split damages defend-trade-secrets-act federal-statute misappropriation trade-secrets unjust-enrichment Whether a plaintiff may seek avoided costs as a measure of unjust-enrichment damages if and only if the plaintiff has suffered a 'compensable harm bey…
23-31 Willie James Pye v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied aedpa eleventh-circuit federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus state-court-decision state-court-deference statutory-interpretation wilson-v-sellers Whether the Eleventh Circuit's novel construction of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) is inconsistent with the statutory text and in direct conflict with this Cour…
23-312 Lee E. Stephens, Jr. v. Carolyn J. Scruggs, Secretary, Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge due-process habeas-relief impeachment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel prior-convictions resentencing right-to-testify sentencing unconstitutional-convictions Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether habeas relief and resentencing is required when a defendant's sentence was premised on prior convictio…
23-321 Jerry J. Davis, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland strickland-standard trial-counsel Whether the District Court and Sixth Circuit Erred When Both Found That Mr. Davis Was Not Entitled to the Issuance of a Certificate of Appealability f…
23-336 Keith Allen Kiefer v. Isanti County, Minnesota Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment mens-rea postconviction-incarceration section-1983 unreasonable-seizure Whether the analytical home for § 1983 unreasonable seizure claims involving only postconviction incarceration for 'violating' an inapplicable law is …
23-350 Brigetta D'Olivio, aka Brigetta Alix Anderson, aka Alix Brigetta v. Hilary Thompson Hutson Texas Denied Response Waived civil-procedure discovery due-process equal-protection forcible-detainer fourteenth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction summary-judgment Whether the lower court violated the petitioner's due process and equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Amendment
23-353 John Jones v. Lyudmyla Pyankovska Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived attorney-liability child-custody custody-proceeding first-amendment omnibus-crime-control omnibus-crime-control-and-safe-streets-act recording-liability recordings right-to-petition title-iii Does the First Amendment right to petition the government extend to insulate an attorney from liability under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Stree…
23-366 Micah Uetricht, et al. v. Chicago Parking Meters, LLC Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived active-supervision antitrust antitrust-law damages monopoly monopoly-restriction municipal-contract parker-doctrine parker-v-brown sherman-act state-action-doctrine state-action-exemption Does the City of Chicago 'actively supervise' a private monopoly like CPM's when CPM can only restrict the City's interference with its monopoly by re…
23-5236 Marvas Aurelien v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-law federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-drug-offenses Whether the 'controlled substance' definition in United States Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) incorporates the federal drug schedules in effect at th…
23-5402 In Re Tonya Knowles Denied Response WaivedIFP 5-usc-2302 administrative-procedure constitutional-violation department-of-veteran-affairs executive-leadership federal-law human-resources management prohibited-personnel-practices veterans-affairs Does the Department of Veteran Affairs-Human Resources, Executive Leadership, Management and or Staff reserve the right to violate the law regarding P…
23-5404 Grace Woodham v. New Hampshire New Hampshire Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights competency-to-stand-trial constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-jurisdiction mental-health-treatment pretrial-detention Whether the appellate and trial counsel provided ineffective assistance in violation of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel
23-5408 James Lee Ballard v. Florida Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim
23-5411 Thomas DeMartino v. Roger Alderin, et al. Oregon Denied IFP 2nd-amendment alarming-contact civil-damages civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jury-trial oregon-appellate-court reckless-driving stalking stalking-statute standing Whether the Oregon Appellate court erred in denying separate alarming contacts of live gunfire within 100' of Plaintiff under Oregon's Stalking statut…
23-5413 Christopher Ray Lipska, aka Christopher Ray Hare v. Oregon Oregon Denied IFP child-abuse child-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility judicial-discretion prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-proportionality sexual-abuse In an ECSA and unlawful contact with a trial, does a trial court abuse its OEC 401, 402, 403 discretion by allowing the state to present evidence that…
23-5415 Derrick Jackson-Stith, Sr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP civil-rights due-process judicial-delay jurisdiction-challenge mandamus mandamus-relief oath-of-office standing state-constitution statutory-law statutory-mandate Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals erred in denying Mr. Jackson-Stith's request for mandamus relief to compel dismissal under a state stat…
23-5421 Brent Ray Brewer v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim future-dangerousness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-review strickland-v-washington whether-contradictory-state-federal-court-rulings-demonstrate-debatability-of-constitutional-claim
23-5422 Herman Robinson v. Donita McIntosh, Superintendent, Clinton Correctional Facility Second Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment illegal-evidence police-procedure search-and-seizure Did the Schenectady County Police Department violate Petitioner's Fourth Amendment right against illegal search and seizure?
23-5431 Bryan K. Brown v. Ron Neal, Warden, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process felony-murder habeas-corpus prison-law-library strickland-standard strickland-test Whether the Court of Appeals erred in finding that the Defendant's negligent actions did not violate the Plaintiff's constitutional right to access th…
23-5436 Christopher J. Barnett v. David Guten, District Judge, District Court of Tulsa County, Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review jurisdictional-issue legal-petition self-representation supreme-court timeliness writ-of-certiorari Does Bo Pep have a right to access the court for fee waiver?
23-5441 Mika 'ya Ali Shakur v. Sergeant Thompson Fourth Circuit Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment federal-rules-of-civil-procedure prison-healthcare serious-medical-need Whether the plaintiff's allegation of denial of Eighth Amendment right to serious medical need for COVID-19 vaccine fails to satisfy Fed. R. Civ. P. 8…
23-5443 Scott Huss v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-violation due-process equal-application equal-protection habeas-corpus Is it a federal due process, confrontation, and equal application violation as guaranteed by the 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendments (U.S. Const.) when a st…
23-5448 Charles Belssner v. Westgate Las Vegas Hotel, LLC, et al. Nevada Denied IFP address-verification administrative-procedure civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-notification notice notice-to-appear service-of-process standing Isn't the appellant entitled to notice to appear?
23-5452 In Re Reinard Smith Denied IFP attorney-misconduct civil-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process fraud fraud-upon-court injunctive-relief judicial-misconduct perjury standing Did the District Court conspire to have jurisdiction over Petitioner's Motion for Injunctive Relief?
23-5459 Maurice Turner v. Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP co-defendant co-defendant-statements confrontation-clause criminal-procedure douglas-v-alabama due-process harmless-error pretrial-statements sixth-amendment testimony Whether the violation of the Confrontation Clause as explicated in Douglas v. Alabama was harmless error
23-5460 Clinton D. Johnson, Jr., aka Kayzon Ru v. Sgt. Johnson, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 8th-amendment antiterrorism-act civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement Was excessive force used during an arrest and detention at a detention center?
23-5465 Steven Justin Villalona v. Warden, Oakdale FCI, 1, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii-c constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process interstate-agreement-on-detainers judicial-remedy notice-requirement remedy speedy-trial trial-rights Whether a violation of the notice requirement under Article III(c) of the Interstate Agreement on Detainers Act (IAD) may amount to a Due Process Viol…
23-5468 Brittney Coleman v. Island Express Helicopters, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aircraft-operation civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation judicial-decision-making legal-competence negligence pilot-certification pilot-competency procedural-review reasonable-care Question not identified
23-5470 Cedric Adams v. Nick Diamond, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force governmental-tort-liability qualified-immunity standing Should a local government be dismissed from acceptance of claims and the very beginning of a suit with prejudice giving absolute immunity without allo…
23-5471 Scott A. Shreffler v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure clerical-error due-process evidentiary-hearing houston-v-lack notice-of-appeal prisoner-mailbox-rule pro-se-filing timeliness Whether the Pennsylvania appellate court erred in dismissing the petitioner's appeal for untimely filing of notice of appeal
23-5472 Jorge Andrade Rico v. James Robertson, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-detention civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus mootness procedural-default solitary-confinement standing Whether administrative prisoners can be placed in solitary confinement units without due process
23-5474 Abder Salim v. Stephen Kennedy, Superintendent, Old Colony Correctional Center First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP dna-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-impairment procedural-default successive-petition tolling tolling-doctrine Should the lateness of the habeas petition be excused due to the petitioner's mental health issues and the DNA evidence?
23-5476 Susan V. Zimmerman v. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
23-5479 Lee Edward Peyton v. Theresa Cisneros, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP aedpa civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process faretta-inquiry habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review pro-se-petition standing summary-denial Whether the complete failure to conduct a Faretta-compliant inquiry with the accused in the face of a clear and unequivocal request to proceed pro se …
23-5482 Timothy Allan Dunlap v. Idaho Maximum Security Institution, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims
23-5489 Lonnie Dee Brown v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure daubert daubert-standard evidence expert-testimony ineffective-assistance kumho-tire standard-of-review strickland-test Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals' review of trial courts decisions to admit or exclude expert testimony comport with the United States S…
23-5491 Saundra S. Brooke v. Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, Inc. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion bankruptcy bankruptcy-law circuit-court civil-procedure court-procedure due-process evidence evidence-withholding exculpatory-evidence judicial-discretion standing Whether the lower court abused her discretion
23-5492 Dennis Christensen v. Barry Reddish, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process handwritten-petition illegible-document potential-legal-issue prison-law-library pro-se-litigant standing unclear-text unreadable-text Whether the district court abused its discretion in dismissing the case without providing the petitioner an opportunity to amend the complaint to show…
23-5493 Brenda M. Johnson v. Catholic Community Services, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP bankruptcy civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-law housing property-rights retaliation workplace-protection Is Brenda M Johnson an employee under WSDOT for protective activity clause
23-5494 Dominic Asquith v. United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims
23-5495 SirMichael Dyess v. California California Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion ada appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct post-conviction-review procedural-default Whether the District Court violated ADA rights under Title II, whether the District Court's procedural and evidentiary rulings constituted an abuse of…
23-5496 Jensen Ken Alexander v. Joseph Ely, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction legal-procedure prison-conditions retaliation statutory-interpretation transfer Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights to equal protection and due process under the Fourteenth Amendment are being violated by the government…
23-5500 Le'Troy D. Merritt v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-rules fair-trial federal-appeal habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process state-action Can a state's evidentiary rules violate the Constitution's due process clause by depriving a defendant of a fair trial?
23-5542 Stephen James Hood v. Virginia Virginia Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus legal-fiction petition-clause statutory-interpretation Whether Virginia's ruling as to Va. Code § 19.2-327.10 violates the rights of Hood, and those similarly situated, under the Due Process, Equal Protect…
23-5543 Ahmad Jamaleddin Aljindi v. United States Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation deprivation-of-rights discrimination due-process federal-courts forgery hate-crimes judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice retaliation un-charter Did the United States Federal Government violate the United States Constitution and the Charter of the United Nations when the corrupt Chief Judge of …
23-5545 Robert K. Decker v. Federal Bureau of Prisons Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts administrative-procedure-act amended-complaint amendment civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction pleadings pro-se-litigant Did the lower courts err in dismissing the case and denying the petitioner's motion to amend the complaint
23-5546 Richard Sansbury v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abduction circuit-split criminal-law definitional-analysis location-change robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation victim-movement Does the Fifth Circuit's interpretation of the term 'abducted' conflict with the ordinary meaning of the term and with the Guidelines' definition's re…
23-5548 Christian R. Aguirre-Hodge v. Charles E. Larson Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights counsel-recruitment due-process in-forma-pauperis indigent-plaintiff judicial-discretion pro-se-litigation recruitment-of-counsel standing visual-impairment Whether a visually impaired plaintiff's case exceeds their capacity to coherently present it to the judge or jury
23-5585 Scott David Creech v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware habeas-corpus rule-60-motion statute-of-limitations stone-v-powell Can a 60(b)(6) motion be considered a 60(b)(3) claim if it does not assert relief from judgment due to fraud, misrepresentation, or misconduct by an o…
23-5598 Esteban Merchan v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process education equal-protection free-speech standing Whether the Florida statute prohibiting certain speech about sexual orientation and gender identity in public schools violates the First Amendment's f…
23-5623 Patrick Medearis v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-846 conspiracy controlled-substance-offense crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law overt-act sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines ussg-4b1.2 Does conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance qualify as a 'controlled substance offense' under the Sentencing Guidelines?
23-5627 Ronald Rene Deleon, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure mandatory-minimum plain-error revocation sentencing sentencing-procedure supervised-release Whether application of a mandatory minimum term of supervised release following a revocation amounts to plain error?
23-5628 Richard C. Duerson, as Next Friend of Jennifer McFarland v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP competency-standard constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection mental-capacity mental-competency next-friend next-friend-petition physical-competency standing What Constitutional Standards should be applied when a judge is tasked with determining the competency of a defendant with known physical and mental a…
23-5631 Jason M. Moriarty v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure imprisonment maximum-sentence revocation-of-release sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release When revoking multiple terms of supervised release, may the court run the service in prison on each term consecutively to exceed the maximum authorize…
23-5632 Mario Rolando Cadenas v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-appeal judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent-overruling sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5636 Javon Montreal King v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal background criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness youth youth-consideration Whether the district court erred, considering Mr. King's youth and background, when it sentenced him to the statutory maximum of 120 months' imprisonm…
23-5639 Damaso Rivera-Fonseca v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge convicted-felon criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-possession habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rehaif-v-united-states strickland-standard Was the defense counsel ineffective under Strickland v. Washington?
23-5640 Blake Taylor v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113(a) 18-usc-2113(d) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) attempted-armed-bank-robbery attempted-bank-robbery attempted-crime bank-robbery criminal-law force-requirement sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation use-of-force Whether attempted bank robbery and attempted armed bank robbery are 'crimes of violence'
23-5641 Marvin Joe Randall v. Oregon Oregon Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction extraterritorial-prosecution internet-activity interstate-conduct personal-jurisdiction prostitution-regulation state-jurisdiction state-regulation website-communication Can the State of Oregon regulate the conduct of an individual who is not a resident of that state and at all times relevant to the case, was never pre…
23-5642 Tracy Jones, aka Tracy Wilcox v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure dismissal due-process fifth-amendment miranda-rights missouri-v-seibert presentment Whether a 37-day delay in presentment requires dismissal under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment?
23-5645 Robert Eugene Stallings v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge counterman-precedent criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions procedural-error statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Whether 18 U.S.C. §1038(a) requires proof of intent to make a reasonably believable threat
23-5647 Eddie Savage v. Chae Harris, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights conviction-relief due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence forfeiture fourteenth-amendment photographic-evidence post-conviction-relief Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause is violated when the State presents evidence at trial that is later discovered to be false or mi…
23-5648 Frank Nucera, Jr. v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing juror-misconduct jury-deliberations new-trial new-trial-motion racial-bias third-circuit-court voir-dire Did the Third Circuit err by upholding the denial of Petitioner's motion for new trial or an evidentiary hearing based on juror affidavits?
23-5649 Jonathan Monson v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2251 child-exploitation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element minor-protection sexual-exploitation visual-depiction Does Section 2251(a) of Title 18 require evidence that a defendant sexually exploited a minor for the purpose of producing a visual depiction, and tha…
23-5655 Christopher T. Mallett v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP arkansas-robbery-statute armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach elements-clause predicate-offense robbery-statute statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether the Arkansas robbery statute categorically qualifies as a predicate violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act's elements clause
23-5656 Stephen M. Cooke, Jr. v. Allen Gang, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment involuntary-statements post-indictment-statements right-to-counsel sixth-amendment undercover-agent Was Cooke's Sixth Amendment right to counsel violated?
23-5658 James Kevin Ball v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP covid-19 covid-19-delay criminal-defendant-rights district-court due-process ends-of-justice ends-of-justice-provision jury-trial-suspension jury-trials ninth-circuit-review speedy-trial Whether a district court may continue to rely on emergency circumstances to delay a trial under the ends-of-justice provision at 18 USC. § 3161(h)(7)(…
23-5662 Charles Keith Wampler v. Alicia Handwerk, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP case-laws due-process interpretation judicial-interpretation judicial-writing legal-argument legal-interpretation legislative-drafting legislative-intent statutory-construction statutory-laws word-definition Can an individual, in any capacity, be allowed to alter the definition of a word, or words, within a law so that the law better suits the argument the…
23-5666 Jeremy Aswegan v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure government-objection plain-error sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review Whether plain error review applies when a defendant opposes a government objection to a sentencing enhancement?
23-5668 Maurice Bellamy v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-vagueness count-severance criminal-indictment criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process indictment joinder severance trial-court-discretion Whether the trial court erred when it denied defendant's repeated motions to sever counts in the indictment
23-5669 Steven Grimm v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 2255-petition compassionate-release compassionate-relief district-court federal-prisoner first-amendment habeas-corpus religious-beliefs religious-exemption rluipa section-3582 Where a federal prisoner's religious beliefs prevented him from getting vaccinated, was it error for the district court to deny his motion for compass…
23-5671 Oscar Hernandez Maldonado v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure cultural-assimilation downward-departure expert-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presentence-report sentencing waiver-of-rights Whether the United States Court of Appeals properly affirmed the trial court's determination that the petitioner was not denied effective assistance o…
23-5672 Michael Lee Mac Cleary v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-history criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-accuracy sentencing townsend-v-burke uncounseled-defendants Whether the due process right to be sentenced based on accurate information that the Court recognized in Townsend v. Burke, 334 U.S. 736 (1948), is li…
23-5675 Brandon A. House v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 appellate-court appellate-court-interpretation concepcion-precedent concepcion-v-united-states district-court district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-compelling-reasons section-3582 sentencing-modification When does the power to modify a sentence based on 'extraordinary and compelling' reasons rest with the district court that imposed the sentence?
23-5677 Rodtravion Woods v. Brian Cates, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights credibility credibility-challenge effective-assistance-of-counsel government-witness habeas-corpus impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance prejudice sixth-amendment trial-counsel Was petitioner prejudicially denied his constitutional right to the effective assistance of counsel
23-5678 Jasper Michael Wagner v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-history criminal-procedure descamps-v-united-states gall-v-united-states judicial-fact-finding sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment united-states-v-hernandez Whether judicial fact-finding as to past offenses during sentencing violates precedent and the Sixth Amendment
23-5685 In Re Bobby Richardson Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-jurisdiction federal-procedure jurisdiction mandamus motion-to-dismiss non-discretionary-duty rule-12b1 standing subject-matter subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-of-certiorari Whether petitioner is entitled to immediate relief, including mandamus from this Court, to compel the lower court(s) to adjudicate petitioner's Fed. R…
23-5686 David Calhoun v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment civil-rights counsel-of-choice due-process fifth-amendment government-misconduct harmless-error kotteakos-v-united-states procedural-default sixth-amendment Whether the district court's resolution of the petitioner's Fifth Amendment due process claim was correct, given the government's multiple breaches of…
23-5688 Angel Marie Jordan v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-waiver constitutional-challenge criminal-justice criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process plea-agreement right-to-appeal Does a facially valid and credible good faith claim of a Double Jeopardy violation constitute a 'constitutionally impermissible factor' which cannot b…
23-5689 Philip Jones v. Charles Schuyler, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell ninth-circuit slack-v-mcdaniel Did the Ninth Circuit's refusal to issue a certificate of appealability for Jones's ineffective assistance of counsel claim conflict with this Court's…
23-5692 Jose Ramon Andino-Morales v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial jury-trial-right 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 …
23-5696 Elvins Sylvestre v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment controlled-purchases informant-reliability law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant warrant-sufficiency Was there sufficient probable cause for the issuance of the search warrant where law enforcement officers failed to fully supervise a series of contro…
23-5699 Jose J. Galiany-Cruz v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure district-court district-court-authority extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines Does a district court have the authority to determine what constitutes 'extraordinary and compelling reasons' warranting compassionate release or are …
23-5706 Darrell Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP asset-seizure circuit-split constitutional-rights corporate-representation due-process indigent-company legal-counsel representative-counsel restitution can-the-courts-prosecute-indigent-companies-without-legal-representation
23-5708 In Re Michael Stansell Denied IFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fifth-amendment life-sentence void-sentence Whether the infliction of a life sentence upon a prisoner where the life tail is not applicable to his offense of conviction constitutes cruel and unu…
23-5718 Adam Neftali Santana v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment conspiracy-charge criminal-indictment criminal-procedure evidence evidence-sufficiency firearm-possession motion-to-suppress search-warrant standing Did the Court err when it denied Petitioner's Motion to Suppress the evidence obtained through the execution of the contingency search warrant?
23-5719 Jerrell West v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-provisions court-procedure evidence expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence legal-jurisdiction prejudicial probative statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari Can the Dirsbei ch Court4 allow Exper Testimony when it is More Presuodicial than Probatfive under Rules 702 and 403?
23-5720 In Re Terrance A. McCauley Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-proceedings legal-procedure peaceable-assembly sovereign-immunity standing state-court Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in sustaining the dismissal of Terrance A. McCauley's civil rights claims against state officials f…
23-5721 In Re Terrance A. McCauley Denied IFP affidavit civil-procedure court-fees declaration financial-disclosure in-forma-pauperis income-declaration legal-support poverty poverty-affidavit redress Whether the petitioner should be granted leave to proceed in forma pauperis
23-5724 Taylor Scott Meece v. Wyoming Wyoming Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment supreme-court-procedure Did the Wyoming Supreme Court abuse its discretion in affirming the conviction and sentence?
23-5736 In Re Travis J. Guttu Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa-deadline criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-innocence Does a claim of procedural innocence require a petitioner to show his actual innocence with facts outside of the record where no trial took place?
23-69 PrimeSource Building Products, Inc. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit Denied executive-power judicial-review legislative-power separation-of-powers standard-of-review statutory-delegation tariff-regulation trade-expansion-act Whether separation of powers principles require courts to resolve ambiguity in statutory limits on delegations of legislative power to the Executive
23A161 Dorothy Elizabeth Lewis v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23A185 Anthony Andrews v. United States Fourth Circuit Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23A242 Michael Parietti v. Ed Day, et al. New York Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23A76 David Harris v. American Accounting Association, et al. Second Circuit Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23M28 Aisha Trimble v. Department of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit Presumed Complete None
23M29 Dominick L. Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit Presumed Complete None
23M30 M. C., et vir v. Indiana Department of Child Services Indiana Presumed Complete None
23M31 Stand for Something Group Live, LLC, dba The Rail Club Live, et al. v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Texas Presumed Complete None
23M32 Geoffrey Hamilton Woodward v. Sarah Edge Woodward Tennessee Presumed Complete None