Conference: 2023-11-09

84 cases — 0 granted, 84 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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22-1127 Christine Sawicky v. Tao Sykes, Manuel Real Beneficiary, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment bribery due-process equal-protection honest-services-fraud judicial-immunity pro-se pro-se-litigation How can the DOJ bring multiple indictments for judges in several circuits, inclusive of counts for honest services fraud and bribery, but then represe…
22-1217 Akiel McKnight v. Pickens Police Department, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) bostock-decision civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination jury-trial seventh-amendment sexual-orientation title-vii Whether the Petitioner has a claim under Title VII for termination based on sexual orientation
22-540 Paul Anthony Riojas v. Department of the Army, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-court-standards civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review military-court-review military-justice service-member standard-of-review Whether the proper scope and standard of review for a service member's habeas corpus petition challenging a military court proceeding is in accordance…
22-693 Michael Johnson v. Susan Prentice, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) circuit-split civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment exercise-deprivation prisoner-rights solitary-confinement Whether punitively depriving a prisoner in solitary confinement of virtually all exercise for three years notwithstanding the absence of a security ju…
22-7068 Joshua Anderson v. Mark Bolster Fourth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burns-v-wilson constitutional-law constitutional-review due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus military-courts standard-of-review writ-suspension Does the indistinct standard of review promulgated in Burns v. Wilson, 346 U.S. 137 (1953) violate the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause and result…
22-7503 Earnest A. Davis v. Porsche Cars of North America, et al. California Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights court-forms due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-discretion legal-process procedural-fairness racial-discrimination standing Are U.S. judicial officers required to process court forms from all litigants regardless of race or ethnicity?
22-7695 Meghan Marie Kelly v. Pennsylvania Office of Disciplinary Counsel Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process first-amendment reciprocal-discipline religious-freedom standing Whether there is subject matter jurisdiction under the applicable Pennsylvania subject matter jurisdiction statute
22-7697 Kenneth Brown, Jr. v. Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP act-84 civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio Whether Act 84, 42 Pa.C.S. § 9728(b)(5) is Unconstitutional
22-7872 Carmelita Barela v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP borden-v-united-states circuit-split crime-of-violence force-definition hobbs-act mens-rea stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony Whether a Hobbs Act robbery conviction can be sustained where the only claimed use of 'violent force' is coughing and claiming to have 'Covid' while s…
23-14 Delilah Guadalupe Diaz v. United States Ninth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (3)Relisted (2) criminal-procedure drug-trafficking evidence evidence-law expert-testimony mens-rea mental-state rule-704(b) rule-704b In a prosecution for drug trafficking—where an element of the offense is that the defendant knew she was carrying illegal drugs—does Rule 704(b) permi…
23-212 Amos N. Jones v. Catholic University of America District of Columbia Denied civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection procedural-due-process procedural-fairness stare-decisis substantive-due-process tortious-interference Did the District of Columbia Court of Appeals err in its failure to apply its very own intervening and controlling authority
23-215 John F. Marchisotto v. Ocean County Prosecutor's Office New Jersey Denied 2nd-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment procedural-due-process red-flag-laws retaliation second-amendment Constitutionality-of-Red-Flag-Laws
23-223 Charles J. Jenkins v. TriWest Healthcare Alliance, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights court-procedure due-process federal-circuit federal-courts judicial-authority judicial-review rule-56 separation-of-powers stare-decisis sua-sponte whether-the-triumvirate-overstepped-their-authority
23-225 Keith M. Krupka, et al. v. Stifel Nicolaus & Co., Inc. Eighth Circuit Denied civil-procedure class-action class-action-fairness-act federal-jurisdiction negligence securities securities-exception securities-law statutory-construction underwriter underwriter-liability Whether a state law negligence claim based solely on an underwriter's acts and omissions with respect to a securities offering document relates to the…
23-231 Linda A. Porter v. Kennard Law PC, dba Kennard Richard PC, et al. Texas Denied appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se pro-se-litigant standing Whether the appellate court violated Porter's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment Constitutional Rights
23-265 Katie Sczesny, et al. v. Philip Murphy, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Governor of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived due-process employment employment-termination executive-order judicial-scrutiny mootness preliminary-injunction rescission vaccine-mandate Whether an appeal from the denial of a preliminary injunction becomes moot when the challenged executive order required private employers to enact vac…
23-290 Marc Grano, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Jose Barron, et al. v. El Paso Healthcare System, Ltd., dba Las Palmas Medical Center New Mexico Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process forum-contacts forum-state fundamental-fairness healthcare-system medical-care medical-referral personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Whether specific personal jurisdiction in a forum state over a nonresident hospital and healthcare system is permissible
23-319 Evelyn Newey v. Orange County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived 1983-claims civil-rights decertification due-process heck-doctrine judicial-conduct judicial-policy law-enforcement police-accountability sb-2 Should police be held accountable for decisions under all circumstances?
23-364 Nima Nazerzadeh v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived due-process fifth-circuit plain-reading rule-of-last-antecedent sex-offender-registration statutory-construction statutory-interpretation surplusage-canon tier-classification Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit's reversal of the district court's order terminating petitioner's sex offender regist…
23-371 D'Andre M. Johnson v. United States Armed Forces Denied Amici (1)Response Waived case-scope court-of-appeals harmonious-reading jurisdiction jurisdictional-question legal-sufficiency legislative-history military-justice standard-of-review statutory-interpretation surplusage-canon Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1259(8) gives this Court jurisdiction to consider issues raised to, but not granted review by, the Court of Appeals for the Armed …
23-382 Phyllis Carr v. Internal Revenue Service, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure irs-audit tax-complaints tax-dispute-resolution tax-procedure tax-refund taxpayer-advocate-service taxpayer-bill-of-rights Does the closing of an IRS audit following complaints of violation of the Taxpayer Bill of Rights allow the IRS to pay a refund?
23-421 Alfonso Cioffi, et al. v. Google LLC Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived 35-usc-251 embodiment-standard federal-circuit original-patent patent patent-disclosure patent-law patent-reissue reissue statutory-interpretation u.s.-industrial-chemicals Should the Antares Pharma, Inc. v. Medac Pharma Inc., 771 F.3d 1354, 1358 (Fed. Cir. 2014) 'exact embodiment' standard for 'original patent' disclosur…
23-5086 Betsy Sachs v. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority First Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-constraints due-process executive-power finra-immunity non-delegation-doctrine private-delegation quasi-governmental quasi-governmental-entity securities-regulation Does FINRA have immunity?
23-5324 Michael D. Beiter, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3006a court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process forced-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation waiver Whether a district court can force counsel upon a defendant
23-5338 Keith A. Penn v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP attempt circuit-split criminal-law distribution distribution-definition drug-offense elements-test sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the legal test announced in Shular v. United States broadly encompasses preliminary steps and attempts to engage in the identified conduct?
23-5551 Kristian G. Little, nka Kristian G. Childers v. Jamie A. Little Kentucky Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
23-5557 Millard E. Price v. Centurion of Delaware, LLC, et al. Delaware Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence fair-trial indigent ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief prisoner When a state court of last resort denies a prisoner's attempt to obtain discovery and other hypotheses from evasive defendants, does the prisoner's in…
23-5559 Jarrish Outlaw v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion legal-remedy manifest-injustice manifest-of-injustice standing supreme-court-review writ-jurisdiction Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in denying the petitioner's petition to invoke all writ jurisdiction on a manifest of injustice claim
23-5563 Christopher John Derting v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP circuit-court-conflict due-process federal-review habeas-corpus keeney-v-tamayo-reyes post-conviction-review strickland strickland-claim townsend-v-sain vicks-v-bunnell Can the District Court ignore the views of this Court stated in Lovell v. Duffey pertaining to 2254 (d) (2) claims, which should focus on what State C…
23-5564 Trent Steven Griffin, Sr. v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas Fifth Circuit Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion jury-trial motion-to-dismiss procedural-misconduct standing Whether a judge had the power or authority to take certain actions in a civil rights case
23-5571 Deon Jefferson Johnson v. Mike Brown, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus habitual-offender jury-trial sentencing-guidelines Whether the petitioner was denied his constitutional rights to a fair and impartial jury trial, due process of law, and to be free from cruel and unus…
23-5600 Richard D. Bostwick v. Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services, et al. Massachusetts Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay civil-procedure discretion due-process judicial-discretion motion-to-vacate standing time-limitation Whether Bostwick's Appeal was NOT Reviewed by the Lower Courts (Appeals Case No. 21-P-721) given Bostwick's Notice of Appeal
23-5695 Stephen Michael Michuda v. Minnesota Minnesota Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel indigent-defendants indigent-rights ineffective-assistance procedural-bar public-defender public-defenders time-bar Is it unconstitutional for the State of Minnesota to block all avenues for indigent defendants against public defenders?
23-5700 Paul Gray v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-economy montgomery-v-louisiana nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment Does the State of Louisiana have the right to invoke 'judicial economy' as a ruse for violations of constitutional guarantees?
23-5709 Guy L. Coulston v. Raúl Labrador, Attorney General of Idaho Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction sovereign-individual standing subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment Did the District court through the 9th circuit court of appeals and Prosecution, and My Trial counsel err in discretion to a Void Judgment that lead i…
23-5716 Jimmy Zavala v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 10(e) appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-petition motion-to-correct procedural-rules rule-10e successive-appeal When should the Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 10(e) be recharacterized as a successive appeal?
23-5717 Ronnie Shahar v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights coin-seizure due-process expert-testimony forfeiture forfeiture-proceedings import-regulations metallurgical-evidence probable-cause seizure standing summary-judgment What is the level of proof required from the US Government when it seizes mutilated or damaged coins imported from Chinese recycling factories and dum…
23-5722 Armando Orozco-Calderon v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5725 Edward Troup v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP antiracketeering-statute criminal-jurisdiction due-process federal-law federal-statute murder-prosecution predicate-offense racketeering state-law statute-of-limitations Does a federal antiracketeering statute reach murders committed outside a state's statute of limitations, for which the defendant could not be adjudic…
23-5726 John Holden v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-922 2nd-amendment bruen bruen-test constitutional-review felony-indictment firearm-prohibition material-false-statement materiality-standard second-amendment Is the criminal prohibition on the receipt of a firearm by a person under felony indictment (18 U.S.C. § 922(n)) constitutional under the Second Amend…
23-5728 Daniel E. Salley v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts federal-district-court habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jurisdictional-challenge standing state-court-review subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the district court correctly dismissed a motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. 2255 for lack of subject matter jurisdiction
23-5730 Blaise Caroleo v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment sentencing sentencing-scheme statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights Whether a waiver of the Eighth Amendment protections against cruel and unusual punishment is valid
23-5734 Lawrence Flack v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waivers constitutional-rights double-jeopardy guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel plain-error plea-agreement Whether Appellant counsel's Anders brief was inadequate where evidence exists that Appellant's Constitutional rights were violated, including double j…
23-5739 Daniel Ray Metsinger v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Metsinger's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provision in his Plea Agreement
23-5742 Joseph Michael Easton v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a…
23-5749 Mark Anthony Thompson v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus selective-adjudication selective-prosecution standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Does the Fifth Circuit's selective adjudication and undermining the law of this Court's ruling on conduct outside the statutory definition of a crime …
23-5751 Akeem R. Gumbs v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
23-5756 David Davalos, Sr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-forfeiture criminal-law due-process Fifth-Circuit forfeiture Honeycutt-v-United-States property-rights property-seizure statutory-interpretation tainted-property Whether Honeycutt-v-United-States-requires-limiting-forfeiture-to-tainted-property-defendant-actually-acquired
23-5758 Jimmy Jay Strayhorn, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 3553(a)-factors constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial pepper-v-united-states resentencing sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation unconstitutional Whether a defendant is entitled to a resentencing hearing when a count in their indictment is later found unconstitutional
23-5759 Meredith McConnell v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-indictment false-statements federal-statute materiality neder-v-united-states ninth-circuit omissions wire-fraud Does an indictment charging the offense of wire fraud require pleading and proof of a specific false statement or omission, or is the allegation of an…
23-5762 Isaiah Whitefox Redbird v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP where context made the basis of his objection to criminal-procedure evidence-preservation federal-rules-of-evidence plain-error-review preservation-requirement propensity-evidence tenth-circuit Did the Tenth Circuit incorrectly hold that Mr. Redbird's claim was not preserved, where context made the basis of his objection to exclude the prosec…
23-5764 Kevin Lynn Tucker v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process nolle-prosequi nolle-prossed plea-agreement pretrial-detention sentencing sentencing-credit substantive-reasonableness waiver Whether the District Court's failure to give credit in sentencing for state pretrial detention on subsequently nolle prossed 'related' charges created…
23-5766 Richard Todd Haas v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) 3553a-factors appellate-review criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit procedural-error sentencing-guidelines variance-sentence Is the Fourth Circuit's plausibility test for evaluating a variance sentence under the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) factors, because it is untethered from any …
23-5773 Adrian De La Torre 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?
23-5774 Andres Fernando Cabezas v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-policy civil-rights due-process interlocutory-appeal judicial-ethics judicial-recusal mandamus-petition public-confidence standing Is the Eleventh Circuit's policy of refusing review of facially valid mandamus petitions for recusal causing irreparable harm to the public's percepti…
23-5776 Andrea Lamont Medlock v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-authority imprisonment-review judicial-discretion plain-error reasonableness revocation sentencing-review sentencing-standards standard-of-review supervised-release Whether sentences of imprisonment following the revocation of supervised release should be reviewed for reasonableness or plain unreasonableness?
23-5777 Iker Fabricio Mendez-Alfaro v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-standard precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5778 Larry David Davis v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment interrogation-tactics law-enforcement self-incrimination standing takings voluntary-confession Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
23-5779 Donovan Romo v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture-doctrine judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review Does a defendant forfeit a challenge to the manner in which the district court imposed sentence by failing to object after the sentence is pronounced,…
23-5781 Troy George Skinner v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP child-exploitation criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-conduct interstate-commerce sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation Does 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) apply extraterritorially to permit the prosecution of a non-U.S. citizen located in a foreign country whose conduct giving ri…
23-5782 Tyrone Robinson, aka Tyrone R. Robinson v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance federal-law grievous-ambiguity rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation Whether the meaning of the term 'controlled substance' in the Sentencing Guidelines includes any substance prohibited by state law, or instead only th…
23-5784 Aaron Lee Porter v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abandonment-doctrine clear-error de-novo-review fourth-amendment question-of-fact question-of-law search-and-seizure standard-of-review Is a finding that an object has been abandoned within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment a question of law subject to de novo review, or a purely fac…
23-5786 Mark Andre Green v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court borden-precedent borden-v-united-states circuit-split crime-of-violence legal-analysis sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether Texas state law aggravated assault by injury can be considered a crime of violence under the Sentencing Guidelines
23-5788 Roberto Buendia v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review davis fifth-circuit intra-circuit-conflict molina-martinez plain-error plain-error-review rosales-mireles sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent Whether the standard the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals applied for determining if the sentencing Guidelines' error in Buendia's case was 'plain' conf…
23-5790 Brock Brian Beeman v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit notice-requirements plea-agreement rule-32 sentencing sentencing-notice Did the Fourth Circuit err in upholding the Petitioner's appeal waiver to preclude his claim that the trial court violated the notice provisions of Ru…
23-5791 John Sherman Jumper v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing disgorgement double-jeopardy fifth-amendment kokesh-precedent kokesh-v-sec sentencing-enhancement Whether the prior disgorgement punishment precludes a criminal sentence or sentencing enhancement based on the same misconduct under the Double Jeopar…
23-5795 Benjamin D. Morrow v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1746 civil-procedure declaration declaration-requirements fourth-amendment oath-clause oath-or-affirmation perjury perjury-standard statutory-interpretation u.s.c.-section-1746 Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1746 requires an affirmative statement that the declaration's contents are true under penalty of perjury
23-5796 Jose Folch-Colon v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-law mens-rea racketeering VICAR violent-crime Whether petitioner aided and abetted a VICAR crime absent evidence of payment to the enterprise and without need to prove the motive element
23-5802 Erie Adams, aka Michael Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-counsel due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-precedent sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Was the defense counsel ineffective under Strickland v. Washington?
23-5803 Robert K. Decker v. Edwin Baez, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force failure-to-protect federal-question shackling spoliation Did the United States District Court, Magistrate Judge err in the decision to have the Plaintiff, Robert K. Decker be hand cuffed, (left wrist) and sh…
23-5807 Fares Mustafa v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington witness-translation Whether the State Court's ruling on Petitioner's claim that Trial Counsel was ineffective for failing to move to suppress Petitioner's inculpatory sta…
23-5810 Christopher L. Laureano-Perez v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-verdict procedural-error section-2255-motion Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine if the First Circuit of Appeals erred in not granting a certificate of appealability?
23-5812 Jurmaine A. Jeffries v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burrage-v-united-states criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense due-process mens-rea proximate-causation racial-disparities sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the 'death results' element in 21 U.S.C. 841(b) requires proof of mens rea
23-5813 Medghyne Calonge, aka Sealed Defendant 1 v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP computer-fraud computer-fraud-and-abuse-act constitutional-interpretation criminal-venue data-access due-process fair-trial government-abuse statutory-construction venue venue-requirements vicinage Whether the Second Circuit correctly held that the evidence of venue was legally sufficient under the Venue and Vicinage Clauses of the United States …
23-5816 Henry Jo Ward v. West Virginia West Virginia Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-presumption fourteenth-amendment official-capacity Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibit this presumption of facts against an accused?
23-5818 Eduardo Martinez v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process entitlement-to-relief habeas-corpus legal-standard procedural-requirements Whether a court of appeals can deny a Certificate of appealability because it believes the applicant will not demonstrate an entitlement to relief and…
23-5820 William H. Cornelius v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment due-process federal-jurisdiction first-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions non-delegation-doctrine separation-of-powers sixth-amendment state-courts Whether the U.S. Supreme Court is obligated to resolve a dispute between Florida citizens and the state judiciary regarding the legislature's authorit…
23-5828 Raquel Rivera v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof controlled-substances-act drug-prosecution farm-bill hemp hemp-classification marijuana marijuana-definition possession-with-intent-to-distribute thc-concentration thc-content Whether the government must prove that a substance is marijuana and not hemp as an element of a possession with intent to distribute offense, or wheth…
23-5834 Herbert Johnson v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c appellate-waiver categorical-analysis criminal-procedure illegal-conviction illegal-sentence jurisdictional-challenge plea-agreement statutory-interpretation Whether an illegal sentence exception to plea agreement waivers can coexist alongside a bar of illegal convictions when a sentence and conviction are …
23-5836 Siddhanth Sharma v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-rights factual-innocence legal-innocence mcquiggin-v-perkins procedural-bar procedural-default sandstrom-claim slack-v-mcdaniel Does the claim of Factual Innocence qualify as a debatable claim for the denial of a Constitutional Right
23-5838 Mario Reynoso, aka Mario Hernandez v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility-of-evidence character-evidence district-court-discretion district-courts evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence non-propensity-purpose reasoning rule-404(b)(2) rule-404b ultimate-decision Whether Rule 404(b)(2) of the Federal Rules of Evidence permits district courts the use of reasoning to reach an ultimate decision whether to admit th…
23-5840 Alvaro Castillo, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP border-search cell-phone-search cell-phones constitutional-rights customs-and-border-protection digital-privacy fourth-amendment search-and-seizure u.s-border warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment permits warrantless search of cell phone at U.S. border
23-5845 In Re Kennedy Wright Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction sentencing supreme-court Whether the lower court or district court violated the defendant's constitutional rights under due process of the laws
23-5854 In Re Terrance A. McCauley Denied IFP civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection free-speech judicial-review petition-for-review sovereign-immunity standing Whether the criminal proceedings against Terrance A. McCarley prejudice the rights of the Moorish Science Temple of America