Conference: 2023-11-17

107 cases — 0 granted, 107 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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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