| 22-1087 |
Douglas Bruce v. City and County of Denver, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure due-process federal-court judicial-review procedural-due-process rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-litigation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine preclude the District Court from recognizing subject matter jurisdiction over the claims filed by Mr. Bruce in federa… |
| 22-1111 |
Chryssoula Marinos-Arsenis v. Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (3) |
agency-guidance circuit-split contract-violation due-process false-claims-act government-payment implied-certification materiality materiality-standard statutory-interpretation |
Whether the implied certification theory of liability under the False Claims Act is viable |
| 22-1152 |
Najam Azmat v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
28-usc-535 criminal-activity criminal-liability department-of-justice equal-justice immunity misprision-of-felony official-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct |
Does the Department of Justice have an obligation to charge prosecutors and Federal Agents for criminal activity during investigations or prosecutions… |
| 22-1200 |
Lee Jones v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
|
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure forfeiture independent-obligation judicial-discretion legal-argumentation legal-forfeiture young-v-united-states |
Do the courts of appeals have an independent obligation to craft and consider forfeited legal arguments in criminal cases? |
| 22-1204 |
William Muhr v. Dawna Braswell |
Colorado |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
child-custody conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-assignment judicial-bias judicial-disqualification parental-rights |
Whether Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights to due-process,equal-protection were violated when Colorado allowed disqualified,prejudiced Chief Jud… |
| 22-1215 |
Darren Thomas Delafield v. Gerard R. Vetter, Acting United States Trustee |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
|
attorney-client-privilege bad-faith bankruptcy bankruptcy-sanctions due-process judicial-discretion non-compensatory-punitive-damages professional-conduct sanctions subpoena |
Did the Bankruptcy Court abuse its discretion by sanctioning Delafield for asserting attorney-client privilege on behalf of his clients? |
| 22-1220 |
Jeffrey A. Killian v. Katherine K. Vidal, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-procedure-act alice-mayo-doctrine alice-mayo-test due-process federal-circuit patent-eligibility section-101 uspto |
Whether the Federal Circuit's departures from Supreme Court precedent in applying the Alice/Mayo test have enabled the USPTO to violate the Administra… |
| 22-1239 |
Michael Jerome Files v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
concurrent-sentences crack-cocaine crack-cocaine-offenses district-court-discretion first-step-act powder-cocaine sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Does Section 404 of the First Step Act authorize district courts to impose a reduced sentence for both crack-cocaine offenses and related offenses tha… |
| 22-1250 |
Peter Chien, et al. v. Scott E. Jarrett, et al. |
Maine |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure court-order due-process enforceability entry-of-appearance federal-law fourteenth-amendment legal-compliance triggering-date |
Does the filing of an entry of appearance within 21 days of opening the mail containing a court order missing a triggering date for the 21 day deadlin… |
| 22-7448 |
Christopher Swindell v. CACI NSS, Inc., fka L-3 National Security Solutions, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
and direct references to white-nationalist symbol and others made in the presence of protected grou including anti-black tropes monkey-imagery some directed at civil-rights civil-rights-act employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment protected-activity racial-discrimination racist-comments retaliation title-vii |
Whether four months of constant racist comments, including anti-black tropes, monkey-imagery, and direct references to white-nationalist symbols, some… |
| 22-7483 |
Farres Alkhayer v. Nashua-Oxford-Bay Associates, L.P., dba Bay Ridge at Nashua |
New Hampshire |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion right-to-trial summary-judgement summary-judgment trial-by-jury |
Is rendering a judgement in a civil case without a trial constitutional? |
| 22-7573 |
Donald Lee Kissner v. Matt Macauley, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus standing |
Did the district abuse its discretion in challenging the elected official and denying pending relief as untimely |
| 22-7696 |
Michael Eugene Parker, Sr. v. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
None |
|
| 22-7757 |
Samuel Lee Morrison v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment bruen bruen-standard constitutional-law federal-criminal-statutes federal-statute gun-rights historical-tradition jurisdiction second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(n) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022) |
| 22-7761 |
Aaron Keith v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure federal-courts judicial-procedure motion-to-dismiss speedy-trial statutory-right trial-continuance waiver |
Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that petitioner waived any speedy-trial objection |
| 22-7835 |
Francisco Antonio Cordova v. Maria Luisa Camacho |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
bankruptcy-discharge child-support civil-procedure civil-rights creditor-harassment due-process judicial-misconduct notice property property-rights right-to-be-heard |
Can the Los Angeles Superior Court deny an American Citizen their Due Process rights to adequate notice and the right to be heard when depriving them … |
| 22-7847 |
Colum Patrick Moran v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process insufficient-evidence judicial-precedent plain-error precedent standard-of-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether a conviction predicated on insufficient evidence can meet the plain error standard in the absence of explicit statutory language or on-point, … |
| 23-10 |
Miriam Brysk, et al. v. Henry Herskovitz, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
anti-semitism attorney-fees civil-rights civil-rights-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-bias synagogue synagogue-picketing |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly affirmed a decision awarding attorney fees to defendant protesters |
| 23-13 |
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. v. Travis Abbott, et ux. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (5)Relisted (7) |
bellwether-trials civil-procedure collateral-estoppel due-process judicial-procedure multidistrict-litigation representative-sample representativeness |
Whether nonmutual offensive collateral estoppel can be applied to make the results of a handful of unrepresentative bellwether trials binding on the d… |
| 23-192 |
Aisha Trimble v. Department of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights due-process federal-employment initial-appointment merit-promotion open-competition preference-eligible statutory-rights veterans-preference |
When a qualified preference eligible seeks initial appointment under an open competition announcement, does Congress allow federal agencies to deny an… |
| 23-241 |
Joe Salazar v. AT&T Mobility LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
|
claim-construction due-process fifth-amendment investment-backed-expectations judicial-taking patent patent-rights property-rights takings takings-clause |
Does the Federal Circuit Panel's unforeseeable and unjustifiable construction of the petitioner's patent claim, disrupting the petitioner's legitimate… |
| 23-250 |
Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. v. San Carlos Apache Tribe |
Ninth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Relisted (2) |
contract-support-costs federal-funding federal-health-care indian-health-service indian-self-determination-act indian-self-determination-and-education-assistance statutory-interpretation third-party-payors tribal-contracts tribal-sovereignty |
Whether IHS must pay 'contract support costs' not only to support IHS-funded activities, but also to support the tribe's expenditure of income collect… |
| 23-253 |
Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. v. Northern Arapaho Tribe |
Tenth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Relisted (2) |
contract-support-costs federal-funding health-care-services indian-self-determination-act indian-self-determination-and-education-assistance statutory-interpretation third-party-payors tribal-sovereignty |
Whether IHS must pay 'contract support costs' not only to support IHS-funded activities, but also to support the tribe's expenditure of income collect… |
| 23-254 |
Sean Guilday v. Crisis Center at Crozer-Chester Medical Center, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process involuntary-commitment overrule psychiatric-examination slaughter-house-cases standing |
Is involuntary examination and involuntary commitment unconstitutional? |
| 23-258 |
Delaware Department of Insurance v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
business-of-insurance civil-rights federal-law federal-preemption insurance-regulation mccarran-ferguson-act preemption state-authority statutory-interpretation summons-power |
Whether the three statutory factors set forth in the first clause of § 1012(b) are the only proper factors to consider when determining whether a stat… |
| 23-261 |
Henry L. Klein v. Louisiana Office of Disciplinary Counsel |
Louisiana |
Denied |
|
administrative-agency administrative-procedure axon-enterprise-v-ftc constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review lawyer-discipline meaningful-judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct sec-v-cochran |
Did Louisiana ODC violate Axon Enterprise v. FTC and SEC v. Cochran principles by having a single deputy assume all prosecutorial and adjudicatory rol… |
| 23-262 |
Vinodh Raghubir v. Bonnie Jean Parrish, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
1985 1986 civil-rights civil-rights-conspiracy conspiracy government-official-liability immunity judicial-immunity section-1985 section-1986 sovereign-immunity |
Do immunity statutes protect government officials from civil rights conspiracy claims? |
| 23-269 |
Charles Juntikka v. Cadell & Chapman, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration-agreement arbitrator-decision civil-procedure contract-interpretation due-process equity-doctrine federal-arbitration-act serious-error stolt-nielsen-v-animal-feeds supreme-court-precedent |
Does the Eastern Associated Coal Corp. v. United Mine Workers holding that an arbitrator's 'serious error' does not suffice to overturn an arbitrator'… |
| 23-273 |
Southern-Owners Insurance Company v. American Builders Insurance Company |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure insurance-coverage legal-issue preservation-of-issues rule-50 summary-judgment |
Whether a party must reassert in Rule 50 motions a purely legal issue resolved adversely at summary judgment to preserve the issue for appellate revie… |
| 23-282 |
Cynthia Stepien, on Behalf of Herself and Her Minor Child, et al. v. Phil Murphy, Governor of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech pandemic-masking school-restrictions schoolchildren speech-protection state-intrusion |
Whether the First Amendment protects schoolchildren from forced masking that eliminates communication, speech, and association |
| 23-298 |
Riverdale Mills Corporation v. Julie A. Su, Acting Secretary of Labor |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law auer-deference due-process federal-rules-of-evidence occupational-safety-and-health-administration osha-citation substantial-evidence |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals correctly applied the substantial-evidence-standard |
| 23-300 |
ATM Shafiqul Khalid v. Microsoft Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 congressional-power constitutional-rights copyright-clause exclusive-right fourteenth-amendment inventor-protection patent-clause patent-ownership sherman-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether the exclusive Right in inventions as written in the Constitution is a fundamental Right or Constitutional privilege separate from common law e… |
| 23-309 |
Michael Paul Nelson v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure disability-rights due-process equal-access fundamental-rights reasonable-accommodation |
Does the Confrontation Clause and/or Due Process Clause require a criminal court to modify policies to allow a disabled defendant to use prosthetic de… |
| 23-318 |
Nicolas A. Salomon v. Kroenke Sports & Entertainment, LLC, et al. |
California |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration arbitration-proceedings california-law due-process federal-arbitration-act fourteenth-amendment preemption right-to-counsel |
Does the Federal Arbitration Act preempt California law on the right to counsel in an arbitration proceeding? |
| 23-320 |
Heidi E. Washington, Director, Michigan Department of Corrections v. James Harrison Fox, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights compelling-interest compelling-state-interest corrections-policy cutter-v-wilkinson deference-standard prison-administration racial-unrest religious-freedom sixth-circuit-review |
Whether the Sixth Circuit failed to give adequate deference under Cutter v. Wilkinson, 544 U.S. 709 (2005), to the Michigan Department of Corrections'… |
| 23-326 |
Vanessa A. Phillips v. Macon Bibb County Government |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
at-will-employment breach-of-contract civil-rights defamation due-process employee-handbook employment employment-termination first-amendment free-speech unemployment-benefits |
Whether the At-Will employment statute shelters the employer, Macon-Bibb County Government (MBCG), from the First Amendment's 'unprotected speech |
| 23-339 |
J. M. F. v. New Jersey Department of Treasury, Division of Pensions and Benefits |
New Jersey |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-hearing administrative-law burden-of-proof civil-rights credibility credibility-determination disability disability-benefits due-process first-amendment |
Whether ALJs violate the rule-of-law by depriving petitioners of their disability-pensions on credibility-grounds |
| 23-34 |
Delila Uwasomba v. Bank of America, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure claim claim-pleading corporate-negligence dismissal due-process economic-damages employment-law standing statute-of-limitations |
Is it appropriate for a case to be dismissed for not stating a claim and the stated claim dismissed as time barred? |
| 23-357 |
Jacob Hilbert v. Missouri |
Missouri |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process jury-trial jury-trial-waiver split-of-authority trial-court-discretion waiver |
must a trial court obtain some personal acknowledgement from a criminal defendant that the defendant has waived the defendant's right to a jury trial … |
| 23-369 |
Javitch Block LLC, et al. v. Khadija Smith |
Ohio |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
arbitration-agreement class-action-waiver contract-enforcement federal-arbitration-act nonsignatory-agent principal-agent state-law |
Whether the Ohio Court of Appeals erred by denying enforcement of an arbitration agreement and class action waiver governed by the Federal Arbitration… |
| 23-370 |
Paul Erlinger v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (4)Relisted (2) |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process jury-trial prior-convictions proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement |
Whether the Constitution requires a jury trial and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find that a defendant's prior convictions were 'committed on occ… |
| 23-375 |
Brigetta D'Olivio v. Hilary Thompson Hutson |
Texas |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment property-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction texas-constitution texas-estates-code texas-government-code trial-de-novo |
Did the lower court violate Petitioner's right to due process and equal protection |
| 23-386 |
Tata Consultancy Services Limited, et al. v. Epic Systems Corporation |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
avoided-costs civil-procedure damages due-process economic-harm federal-courts legal-damages punitive-damages trade-secret trade-secrets unjust-enrichment |
Whether avoided costs are available as unjust enrichment damages |
| 23-388 |
Richard W. Como v. Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement Board |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process excessive-fines excessive-punishment fourteenth-amendment pension pension-forfeiture public-employee retirement-law |
Did the Commonwealth Court and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court err in forfeiting Mr. Como's entire pension due to criminal convictions as Superintenden… |
| 23-393 |
Shichinin, LLC v. Sprint Corporation |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration-agreement arbitration-venue contract-interpretation federal-arbitration-act forum-shopping hawaii-arbitration-statute post-arbitration-proceedings venue volt-v-stanford |
Whether the FAA's venue provision can be abused to permit forum shopping for post-arbitration proceedings, contrary to the parties' agreement |
| 23-40 |
Brenda Bellay v. Officer Tyler Shue, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-procedure dismissal-with-prejudice evidentiary-standards flury judicial-sanctions less-severe-sanctions sanctions spoilation-of-evidence spoliation-of-evidence |
Should a Court of Appeals uphold the dismissal of a case with prejudice due to the spoilation of evidence when there are less severe sanctions availab… |
| 23-404 |
Matthew Edwin Gronda, et al. v. Title Check, LLC |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-U.S.C-1927 28-usc-1927 attorney-sanctions first-legal-impression good-faith-argument legal-first-impression narrow-construction objective-recklessness subjective-bad-faith |
May attorneys be sanctioned under 28-U.S.C-1927 for good-faith-arguments |
| 23-406 |
Taylor J. Matson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
case-agent criminal-procedure evidence evidence-summary jury-inference jury-instructions lay-opinion lay-witness-testimony legal-interpretation plain-language-interpretation summary-of-evidence witness-testimony |
Whether case agents may offer lay opinions summarizing evidence, interpreting plain language, and drawing inferences from evidence that only a jury ma… |
| 23-416 |
Derek Michael Chauvin v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
change-of-venue community-bias community-harm criminal-procedure juror-bias juror-prejudice presumed-prejudice sixth-amendment venue-change voir-dire |
Whether community harm and threat of harm is a presumed community bias and must be considered as a singular inquiry as an extreme case creating circum… |
| 23-43 |
Christopher M. Hunt, Sr. v. Deutsche Bank Trust Company |
Georgia |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights conflict-of-laws court-preemption due-process federal-jurisdiction foreclosure-dispute judicial-review jurisdiction-conflict preemption state-jurisdiction supersedeas-bond whistleblower-protection |
When there is admitted by courts conflict between the federal courts and state courts on such all-important matters such as jurisdiction, which court … |
| 23-443 |
MMN Infrastructure Services, LLC, Successor in Interest to Vectren Infrastructure Services Corp. v. Michigan Department of Treasury |
Michigan |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
corporate-disclosure extraterritorial-taxation factor-representation fair-apportionment interstate-commerce short-tax-year tax-apportionment tax-assessment temporal-element |
Whether a state must include in its tax apportionment formula the factors of a business giving rise to income to be taxed, and whether factor represen… |
| 23-48 |
Indiana Municipal Power Agency, et al. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
administrative-interpretation administrative-law contract contractual-intent government-contract government-obligations money-mandating money-mandating-statute payment-obligation sequestration statutory-interpretation |
Whether a payment obligation imposed by Congress on the federal government under a money-mandating statute and specifically exempted from later reduct… |
| 23-5031 |
Marc Anthony Hill v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
advance-knowledge apprendi-precedent circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process essential-elements fifth-amendment four-corner-rule jury-findings sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Is Apprendi v. New Jersey still good law? |
| 23-5056 |
Carlos Antonio Raymond v. JPMorgan Chase Bank |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-tampering federal-procedure first-amendment fraud judicial-review summary-judgment |
Whether the violation of standard of review for summary judgment be allowed to stand uncorrected or violator go unpunished |
| 23-5089 |
Garland Bernell Harper v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
batson batson-challenge certificate-of-appealability equal-protection fifth-circuit habeas ineffective-assistance jury-selection peremptory-strike race-discrimination |
Does the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals' methodology for evaluating a prosecutor's facially race-neutral reasons for purposeful discrimination violate… |
| 23-5092 |
Noel Brown v. Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process false-arrest favorable-termination habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey judicial-procedure standing |
Whether the Third Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner's false-arrest claim with prejudice, rather than without prejudice, in light of the favor… |
| 23-5119 |
Nawllah Shayanne Tiger v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
federal-jurisdiction law-of-the-case major-crimes-act mcgirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma postconviction-relief retroactivity state-procedural-law subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-jurisdiction |
Was the Oklahoma court's decision to approve reinstating Ms. Tiger's convictions based on such a novel and unforeseeable change in state procedural la… |
| 23-5169 |
Michael Mogan v. Sacks, Ricketts & Case LLP, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
anti-SLAPP anti-slapp-statute civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure magistrate-judge magistrate-jurisdiction rule-11-sanctions rules-enabling-act statutory-interpretation |
Did the Ninth Circuit erroneously fail to recognize that 28-U.S.C-636(c) precludes the parties from selecting a particular magistrate-judge |
| 23-5268 |
Marc Amouri Bakambia v. Paul Schnell, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights de-novo-review district-court due-process judicial-procedure magistrate-judge report-and-recommendation summary-judgment |
Whether the provision of the 28 U.S.C. 636 requires the district court judge to prevent the assigned magistrate judge from issuing a report and recomm… |
| 23-5337 |
Noel Brown v. State Correctional Institution at Somerset, Administration Office, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights court-costs court-rules default-judgment due-process federal-rules inmate-accounts notice-of-appearance standing stare-decisis |
Does the substantial holding in Commonwealth v. Spotz apply on appeal from the District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania? |
| 23-5358 |
Devin Jerrod Long v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-conviction drug-offense federal-judge prior-felony prior-felony-convictions sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
Can a federal judge impose a sentence enhancement based on a prior drug conviction inclusive of a substance that is no longer controlled at the time o… |
| 23-5364 |
Christopher Alexander Nerius v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender-guideline controlled-substance-offense criminal-procedure federal-sentencing prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines timing-question united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether, in determining if a prior offense is a 'controlled substance offense' for purposes of the career offender guideline, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b), sen… |
| 23-5375 |
Isidro Miguel Delacruz v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment capital-sentencing constitutional-proportionality death-penalty due-process jury-instructions mitigation-evidence moral-culpability |
Can the Texas death penalty statute be reconciled with this Court's long-established mitigation jurisprudence? |
| 23-5558 |
Tracy J. McGill v. William Rankin |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure equitable-estoppel government jurisdiction standing |
Whether a district court is estopped from sua sponte declining jurisdiction when the petitioner raises a claim of equitable estoppel against the gover… |
| 23-5576 |
Robert William Pann v. Sherry L. Burt, Warden, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts ex-parte-proceeding extrinsic-fraud first-amendment lewis-v-casey prison-conditions prisoner-rights probate-court prosecutorial-misconduct |
Is Petitioner's First Amendment right of access to the courts violated by the rule announced in Lewis v. Casey being too narrow by strictly limiting i… |
| 23-5577 |
Brent Allen Morris v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-appeal due-process fair-trial federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-bias judicial-misconduct post-conviction standing |
Whether the petitioner was denied due process and a fair trial due to judicial bias and misconduct |
| 23-5588 |
Roger A. Libby v. Robert Legran, Warden, et al. |
Nevada |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-cases criminal-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application state-law substantive-due-process substantive-rule |
Whether the due process and equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment render Nevada state laws unconstitutional |
| 23-5589 |
Sara Elyas v. Edward Johnston, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-1257 certiorari civil-procedure federal-appeals federal-jurisdiction judicial-review judiciary-act-1789 jurisdiction standing state-court-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether the Supreme Court has jurisdiction to review the decision of the state court under 28 U.S.C. 1257(4) |
| 23-5593 |
Shawn V. Castiglione v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-validity criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief sexual-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Florida Statutes, Chapter 794 and Chapter 800, are constitutionally valid |
| 23-5596 |
Edward James Steiner v. Washington |
Washington |
Denied |
IFP |
citizenship civil-liberties constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-jurisdiction legal-standing prosecutorial-misconduct standing witness-tampering |
Was there prosecutorial misconduct? |
| 23-5601 |
In Re Michael Kenny Carter |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
charging-statute circuit-split constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-conduct criminal-jurisdiction interstate-activity jurisdiction jurisdictional-scope sexual-activity statutory-interpretation |
whether criminal-conduct-beyond-scope-of-charging-statute-is-jurisdictional-defect-or-plain-error |
| 23-5603 |
Gilbert Edwin v. Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split civil-procedure hostile-work-environment interlocutory-orders law-of-case law-of-the-case racial-discrimination reconsideration rule-54(b) rule-54b time-limitations workers-compensation |
Whether the law of the case doctrine precludes a successor judge's reconsideration of prior interlocutory orders absent some altered circumstance, and… |
| 23-5608 |
George Butler v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus habitual-offender indictment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel intervening-decision sentencing-error |
Whether the conviction and/or sentence was in violation of the United States Constitution, Mississippi Constitution, and Laws of Mississippi |
| 23-5610 |
Justin D. Shackelford v. University of Minnesota, et al. |
Minnesota |
Denied |
IFP |
ada administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process employment federal-employment standing state-agency state-federal-conflict unemployment-law |
Can a state agency make an unemployment determination that contradicts the federal Americans with Disabilities Act? |
| 23-5611 |
David Stephen Middleton v. William Gittere, Warden |
Nevada |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence due-process forensic-evidence habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction state-court-procedure state-courts |
In a post-conviction proceeding, was Mr. Middleton's right to due process violated when the Nevada state courts failed to consider exculpatory evidenc… |
| 23-5612 |
Festus Okwudili Ohan v. North Atlantic Treaty Organization, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law copyright due-process judicial-review legal-precedent patent property-rights statutory-interpretation trademark |
Whether the petitioner has a legal right to claim ownership of everything in the world and all data and copyrights globally |
| 23-5613 |
Robert L. Allum v. Montana State Fund |
Montana |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process judicial-branch montana-constitution res-judicata state-court-structure subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Montana Workers' Compensation Court is a constitutionally valid judicial body |
| 23-5615 |
Roosevelt L. Linicomn, Jr. v. District Attorney, 482nd Judicial District Court of Texas, Harris County, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1985 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement probable-cause warrant-validity warrants |
Does the Constitution ensure that a person is entitled to section 242 of title 18 if a person is truly deprived of a right or privilege protected by t… |
| 23-5620 |
Margaret A. Allen v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit flouted this Court's relevant decisions and precedent by declining to even grant a certificate of appealability regarding… |
| 23-5622 |
Ervie Savage v. Walmart Stores, Inc. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights disability disability-insurance employer-liability employment employment-law insurance sedgwick-claims workers-compensation workplace-injury |
Whether Walmart Stores has the right to decide not to cover an employee injured on the job |
| 23-5625 |
Gale L. Davis v. Chester James Walker, Jr., Father |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 23-5635 |
William Raymond Carter v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process evidence free-speech jurisdiction legal-procedure standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional and statutory rights were violated |
| 23-5637 |
Daniel Lee Reed v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa aedpa-standard certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights fifth-circuit-review habeas-corpus rule-60(b) rule-60b successive-petition successive-petitions |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying a COA for failure to properly consider the framework in which successive petitions are mandated to be reviewed |
| 23-5638 |
Adrian M. Jackson v. Clinton Canady, III, Judge, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process factual-error remand sixth-circuit vacatur |
whether-the-sixth-circuit-abused-its-discretion |
| 23-5663 |
Tosin Adegbuji, aka Toshi Adegbuji v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
| 23-5694 |
Orlando Peay v. Michael Burgess, Warden |
Michigan |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus illegal-arrest ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-challenge malfeasance obstruction-of-justice res-judicata |
Did homicide detectives violate court order to discharge from confinement? |
| 23-5701 |
Dennis L. Walls, Sr. v. Chad Wakefield, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus standard-of-review third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit erred in denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability |
| 23-5799 |
Donald L. Missimer, Jr. v. Jay Forshey, Warden |
Ohio |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process establishment-clause free-exercise standing state-action |
Whether the Ohio Supreme Court erred in its interpretation and application of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Con… |
| 23-5815 |
Emily Claire Hari v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute free-exercise jurisdictional-element non-economic |
Whether the 'jurisdictional element' contained within 18 U.S.C. § 247, standing alone, serves to authorize congressional enactment of a criminal statu… |
| 23-5819 |
Jason Green v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
clearly-established-federal-law clearly-established-law due-process forum-shopping habeas-corpus judicial-fairness lockyer-v-andrade ninth-circuit-review panetti-v-quarterman prosecutorial-misconduct |
Did the Ninth Circuit take an inappropriately narrow view of what constitutes clearly established federal law in conflict with this Court's treatment … |
| 23-5829 |
Luis Rios v. Patrick Covello, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa aedpa-limitations chain-of-custody factual-predicate habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-prong statute-of-limitations |
When determining the one-year limitations period under 28 U.S.C. §2244(d)(1)(D) of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) for an in… |
| 23-5837 |
Spencer Wallace v. Bobbi Jo Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights court-interpretation due-process francis-v-franklin judicial-review jury-instructions legal-precedent precedent statutory-provisions trial-court-instructions |
Did the lower court err in holding that the trial court instruction did not violate Wallace's constitutional right to due process? |
| 23-5839 |
Cesar Humberto Valencia-Terrazas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-precedent precedent-overruling sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5846 |
Jong Whan Kim v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts indictment mens-rea plea-hearing rule-11 |
Is it error for a district court to rely on a defendant's pre-hearing review of the indictment to inform him of the nature of the offense? |
| 23-5848 |
In Re Naser A. Abdallah |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-review civil-rights district-court due-process equal-protection fifth-circuit identity-theft standing writ-of-prohibition |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause |
| 23-5852 |
Kareem Davis v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1959 18-usc-924c categorical-analysis categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence modified-categorical-approach racketeering statutory-interpretation |
Is murder in aid of racketeering (VICAR murder) an indivisible offense requiring a categorical analysis based on the generic federal definition of mur… |
| 23-5858 |
Anthony Schneider v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure guilty-plea jurisdictional-challenge jurisdictional-challenges plea-bargaining supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-goodall united-states-v-taylor |
Whether a guilty plea that includes an appellate waiver bars jurisdictional challenges on appeal |
| 23-5859 |
Matthew Steven Hackney v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2251 and § 2252(a)(5)(B) authorize convictions upon proof that materials used to produce or possess child pornography once crossed… |
| 23-5860 |
John Carl Ferrell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
boykin-v-alabama constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review plea-bargaining sentencing supreme-court voluntary-plea |
Does a decision by the Supreme Court, after a plea is entered but before sentencing, present sufficient cause to consider if the plea was entered know… |
| 23-5862 |
Benancio Castaneda v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility canine-sniff drug-investigation fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-search |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in its rulings on the continued detention and canine search |
| 23-5863 |
Katherine L. Woitaszewski v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence first-amendment standing |
Whether the petitioner's due process and First Amendment rights were violated when the evidence was improperly denied |
| 23-5865 |
Jason Dix v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error separation-of-powers sua-sponte |
Whether an appellate court may relieve a government party of its burden to show that a favorable error is harmless, decide the issue sua sponte, and t… |
| 23-5869 |
Craig Martin Shults v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-standard mutually-exclusive severance standard zafiro-precedent zafiro-v-united-states |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's rigid 'irreconcilable and mutually exclusive' standard for severance survives this Court's decision in Zafiro v. United St… |
| 23-71 |
City of Costa Mesa, California v. SoCal Recovery, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
ada-disabilities americans-with-disabilities-act disability-discrimination fair-housing-act major-life-activities public-comments regarded-as-disabled standing substantial-limitation |
Can entities derive standing to sue for disability discrimination without proving their individual residents are substantially impaired? |
| 23M33 |
Stephanie Norman v. H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Inc., dba Moffitt Cancer Center |
Eleventh Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 23M34 |
In Re William B. Jolley |
|
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
| 23M35 |
Talthia Sorbel v. South Dakota, ex rel. South Dakota Department of Social Services, et al. |
South Dakota |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|