Conference: 2024-03-15

138 cases — 1 granted, 137 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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Case Title Lower Court Status Flags Tags Question Presented
20-6272 Domonic Devarrise Usher v. United States Fourth Circuit Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act johnson-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)
21-7103 Roger D. Ream v. Florida Florida Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process first-amendment internet-access liberty-interest liberty-rights packingham-v-north-carolina probation-conditions property-rights supervised-release Does a person on probation have a constitutional right to access the Internet?
23-279 Couy Griffin v. New Mexico, ex rel. Marco White, et al. New Mexico Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 14th-amendment civil-rights congress congressional-power constitutional-interpretation due-process enforcement first-amendment fourteenth-amendment insurrection judicial-authority standing Whether Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment exclusively reserves the power to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment to Congress
23-446 Junjie Li v. Rhode Island Rhode Island Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment civil-rights decriminalization drug-enforcement fourth-amendment marijuana-odor probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether the slight odor of marijuana creates reasonable suspicion to prolong a traffic stop
23-450 M. C., et vir v. Indiana Department of Child Services Indiana Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 14th-amendment child-custody due-process first-amendment free-exercise free-speech parental-rights prior-restraint Whether a prior restraint barring a religious parent's speech about the topic of sex and gender with their child while allowing and even requiring spe…
23-506 Occidental Exploration and Production Company v. Andes Petroleum Ecuador Limited Second Circuit Granted Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration circuit-split commonwealth-coatings disclosure disclosure-requirement evident-partiality federal-arbitration-act judicial-precedent second-circuit Whether an arbitrator's failure to disclose a relationship evinces evident partiality
23-509 John Doe v. Rollins College Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split doe-v-purdue procedural-deficiencies sex-discrimination summary-judgment title-ix Whether the proper test for sex discrimination under Title IX should be the test stated in Doe v. Purdue
23-5105 Russell Garvis Griffith, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied IFP child-abuse circuit-split evidence-rule-803(4) hearsay hearsay-exception household-abuse medical-diagnosis medical-treatment rule-803(4) witness-testimony Whether a party seeking to admit an out-of-court statement pursuant to Rule 803(4) must show that the speaker subjectively knew that the identity of t…
23-527 Raji Rab v. Shirley N. Weber, California Secretary of State, et al. California Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights due-process election-code election-integrity election-law judicial-review legislative-intent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vote-counting Whether the lower courts failed to address the important question of law to prevent the violation of constitutional rights and the greatest miscarriag…
23-528 Michael S. Barth v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process intervention-rights judicial-access media-representation procedural-due-process recusal standing Whether Petitioner is entitled to intervene
23-5481 Festus Okwudili Ohan v. Armando B. Fontoura, Sheriff, Essex County, New Jersey, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights digital-privacy due-process excessive-force false-arrest fourth-amendment law-enforcement malicious-prosecution probable-cause retaliation traffic-stop warrantless-search Which legal issues were raised in the SCOTUS petition?
23-5582 Juan Manuel Reyes v. Washington County, Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment accrual-of-discovery civil-rights constitutional-rights constructive-notice due-process fourth-amendment governmental-action section-1983 statute-of-limitations Does a Fourth Amendment or any other United States Constitutional Amendment violation have a federal expiration date or time limitation other than the…
23-559 Adekunle C. Omoyosi v. Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appeal-timeliness civil-procedure court-discretion due-process eeoc federal-courts judicial-exception legal-procedure procedural-rules standing timeliness Whether, or under what circumstances, may the court excuse untimeliness of appeal
23-562 McDonald's USA, LLC, et al. v. Leinani Deslandes, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Amici (2) antitrust antitrust-law cross-market-effects horizontal-component horizontal-restraints intrabrand-restraint market-competition per-se-rule rule-of-reason sherman-act Whether intrabrand-hiring-restraints-are-presumptively-subject-to-per-se-Sherman-Act-analysis
23-5633 Demetrius Verardi Ramos v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure de-novo-review due-process factual-error judicial-procedure magistrate-judge objection-standard report-and-recommendation waiver Does the court of appeals' opinion conflict with Raddatz and principles of due-process?
23-5793 Phillip Serapio Baca v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied IFP 4th-amendment brendlin-precedent circuit-split civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment passenger-rights search-and-seizure standing traffic-stop vehicle-detention Whether a passenger in a vehicle subject to a traffic stop may contest the legality of his detention
23-5804 Joseph Alexander Clarke v. Kimberly M. Esmond Adams, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce jurisdictional-limits legal-procedure maxims-of-law pleadings standing supreme-court-review Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals failed to properly address the issues raised in the petition, including the failure to address the suffi…
23-5864 Alfred Starling v. Charles Mims, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-statute constitutional-violations equitable-tolling gateway-claim habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations Whether the lower courts erred in holding that reasonable jurists would not debate whether Petitioner's First Federal Habeas Corpus petition was untim…
23-596 Yoseph Yadessa Kenno v. Colorado Governor's Office of Information Technology, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure due-process judicial-discretion newly-discovered-evidence pro-se pro-se-litigation rule-59 rule-59-motion spoliation-of-evidence Whether the Lower Courts violated Supreme Court precedents governing pro se pleading
23-5984 Lawrence F. Curtin v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment
23-6071 Christopher L. Takhvar v. Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief standing state-court-procedure Whether the State violated Petitioner's substantive due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment
23-6125 Walter Lancaster v. Beats Electronics LLC, et al. California Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court miscarriage-of-justice petition-for-review stare-decisis Whether the denial of a petition for writ of certiorari by the highest state supreme court, followed by a denial of a timely appeal by the state distr…
23-6137 In Re Ronald Boyajian Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-of-right constitutional-rights criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process judicial-assignment judicial-recusal prejudice recusal three-judge-panel Did Respondents deny defendant-appellant's due-process rights by failing to provide a three-judge panel on appeal?
23-6157 Mario Alberto Netro-Perales v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law circuit-split deference federal-courts federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states Whether the circuits have split over the extent of deference that is to be given to the commentaries to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines after the de…
23-616 Estate of William Han Manstrom-Greening, Through Carol J. Manstrom, Personal Representative v. Lane County, Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived 2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-relevance expert-testimony free-speech gun-violence negligence psychological-impact standing suicide Is an expert's testimony about the psychological connection between the visible presence of unsecured firearms and death by suicide relevant to a jury…
23-620 Dominique Gerald Burns v. South Carolina Department of Social Services South Carolina Denied Response Waived administrative-agency administrative-law agency-authority civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-authority jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge procedural-due-process standing state-agency Whether the court of appeals erred in its ruling when it failed to protect the appellant's procedural due process
23-6311 David Clum, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure due-process judicial-review manifest-injustice miscarriage-of-justice supervisory-powers writ-of-certiorari Should this court grant the writ where it is shown from the record that the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has so far departed from the accepted an…
23-6360 In Re Burt Setts Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment capital-conviction civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury indictment Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated by the holding that the petitioner was not entitled to a grand jury indictment
23-6399 Michael Salinas v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-conspiracy mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether, to prove conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance triggering mandatory-minimum and increased-maximum penalties, the government must pr…
23-6436 Luis Manso v. Patricia McGill, Administrator, Northern State Prison, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP brady-violation court-of-appeals evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard strickland-v-washington strong-evidence Does Strickland-v-Washington allow the Court-of-Appeals to dismiss the defendant's ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim based on strong-evidence of…
23-6443 Pablo Enrique Rosado-Sanchez v. Pablo Crespo-Claudio, et al. First Circuit Denied IFP attorney-assignment civil-rights constitutional-rights contract due-process fraud loan-modification loan-promissory-note pro-se-rights promissory-note secured-loan Question not identified
23-6444 David D. Madriz, Jr. v. Adam Aron, et al. Delaware Denied Response WaivedIFP chancery-court civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extraordinary-circumstances interlocutory-appeal standing stockholder-litigation supreme-court-procedure Whether the Supreme Court of Delaware failed to follow Delaware Chancery Court's procedures
23-6449 Robert James Swint v. Dish Network, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law fifth-amendment jurisdiction standing takings-clause Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in holding that the district court lacked jurisdiction to consider petitioners' claims under the Takings Clause of the…
23-6455 Darrel R. Fisher v. United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1981 42-usc-1982 4th-amendment civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-protections due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement property-rights trespass warrantless-search Whether the police officer's warrantless trespassing on the petitioner's private property was justified, and whether the petitioner's subsequent reque…
23-6456 Tyree Earl Ford v. Carmine Marceno, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP civil-litigation civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-orders due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-review legal-procedure standing summary-judgment Whether the District Court followed the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and granted summary judgment for non-compliance with the Court's order
23-6462 Arthur Harris v. New Rez, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction legal-procedure patent separation-of-powers standing supreme-court takings writ-of-certiorari Whether the lower court's decision against the petitioner is unconstitutional and a violation of the United States Constitution
23-6465 Lewis Slaughter v. New York New York Denied IFP appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure due-process judicial-process legal-petition notice opportunity-to-be-heard property-seizure supreme-court takings Whether the petitioners' due process rights were violated by the government's failure to provide adequate notice and opportunity to be heard before se…
23-6467 Fairly W. Earls v. Salam Syed, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-law genuine-issues-of-dispute jury-function rule-of-orderliness summary-judgment supremacy-clause Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals committed errors of constitutional law by failing to follow the Supremacy Clause and the Rule of Orderlin…
23-6471 Edward J. Steiner v. Brent Kempster, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing video-evidence Whether the district court erred in striking the motions as untimely, which are important to the case involving video evidence and tampering issues th…
23-6472 Keith L. Allen v. Nebraska Nebraska Denied IFP constitutional-bar credible-threats impartial-jury juror-misconduct juror-threats no-impeachment-rule sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-violation verdict-influence Whether a no-impeachment rule constitutionally bars evidence of credible threats of violence against the jurors influencing their verdict offered to p…
23-6482 Christopher J. Barnett v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP appellate-review brady-rule constitutional-provisions conviction-integrity criminal-procedure due-process judicial-process legal-jurisdiction petition-review prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-procedure writ-of-certiorari Whether the trial court and the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals erred in continuing to hold that the defendant's conviction stands despite a violat…
23-6483 Joanne J. Antrobus v. New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech precedent standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant civil-rights, due-process, and free-speech precedents
23-6497 Alex Marquez v. Tim Garrett, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel involuntary-confession miranda-warning ninth-circuit Did the Ninth Circuit err when Alex Marquez made a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right as to an inadequate Miranda warning lea…
23-6509 Jonathan Joseph Good v. Wendi Walworth, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-charging-document civil-rights due-process judicial-procedure magistrate notice notice-requirement rule-83 summary-judgment Whether the denial of notice to file an answer to a motion for summary judgment violates due process and Rule 83
23-6535 Ryan C. Armstrong v. United States Federal Government, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-case civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-government judicial-circuit law-enforcement mental-health standing state-government state-jurisdiction capital-case
23-6540 Jennifer Agnes Lopez v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-immunity state-actors statute-of-limitations Whether the State actors can deprive the individual of a fair treatment which violates the guarantees of the Fifth Fourteenth Amendment
23-6563 Justin Taylor v. Tim Hooper, Warden Louisiana Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-standing procedural-challenge remand standing state-court supreme-court void-proceedings Whether the lower court must investigate and resolve jurisdiction if raised by a party
23-6569 Leonard Nyamusevya v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process in-rem-action judicial-report property-rights rule-9011 takings Is a per se taking when Rule 9011 and Constitutions were violated, where a paid off home was taken in violation of § 524(a) and O.R.C. § 2329 and Rule…
23-6581 Eric Adam Grueninger v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP assets-liabilities child-support disability employment-history financial-disclosure income-sources prisoner-filing retirement spouse-employment support-expenses unemployment What legal issues are being raised?
23-6586 Devrick Raquan Gail v. Virginia Virginia Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standard for determining standing to bring a claim
23-6593 Larry Rush, aka Leroy Thomas v. Michael Zaken, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction petition-denial third-circuit Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err in affirming Mr. Rush's Denial of Habeas Corpus?
23-6596 Kenneth Roshaun Reid v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina Fourth Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP board-of-immigration-appeals child-status-protection-act criminal-procedure discretion discretionary-review fair-sentencing-act immigration-law plain-error priority-date retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation Did the District Court abuse its discretion when it refused to apply the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 to Kenneth Roshaun Qedens
23-6604 Nicole Johnson v. Massachusetts Department of Children and Families Massachusetts Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment best-interests child-custody due-process jury-trial massachusetts-rule-38 parental-rights sua-sponte termination termination-of-parental-rights Whether the petitioner's right to due process and 7th amendment right and Massachusetts rule 38 Jury Trial of Right was violated
23-6611 Morice Ervin v. Indiana Indiana Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process expert-testimony expert-witness-testimony fair-trial favorable-evidence fourteenth-amendment lack-of-evidence post-autopsy prejudicial-questioning whether-petitioner's-due-process-rights-were-violated
23-6618 Mabior M. Mabior v. Nebraska Nebraska Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review confrontation-clause cross-examination hearsay hearsay-exception ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment testimonial-statement testimonial-statements Is a defendant's right to confrontation under the Sixth Amendment violated when testimonial statements are admitted for the truth of the matters asser…
23-6620 Bruce A. Quarles v. Joseph Terra, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights diligence-requirement due-process ex-post-facto federal-rules-of-civil-procedure rule-60 rule-60(d)(1) timely-filing Is an imposition of a diligence requirement upon a timely filed Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 60(d)(1) motion a violation of the rule?
23-6630 Terry L. Terry v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jackson-v-virginia molestation sexual-assault statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence victim-testimony Did the state court unreasonably apply Jackson v. Virginia when it determined that evidence presented at trial was sufficient to sustain Terry's convi…
23-6632 Jasen Randhawa v. Wisconsin Wisconsin Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deterrence due-process general-deterrence sentencing sentencing-discretion social-science social-science-evidence Does a court violate a defendant's right to due process when a lengthy sentence is based upon mistaken information that a severe sentence will deter o…
23-6640 Garland Ray Gregory, Jr. v. South Dakota South Dakota Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-claim collateral-estoppel constitutional-violation coram-nobis cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-error res-judicata Did the South Dakota Supreme Court abuse its discretion in dismissing the petitioner's writ of error coram nobis?
23-6645 Arthur Johnson v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
23-6694 Michael T. Braxton v. Warden, Anderson County Detention Center Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process probable-cause state-corrective-process state-court-abuse subject-matter-jurisdiction younger-abstention Did the State of South Carolina deny the Petitioner a Substantial Constitutional right to a 'Constitutionally Adequate' probable-cause determination?
23-6695 Douglas W. Curtis v. Brian Eller, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa appellate-review due-process fourteenth-amendment novel-state-procedural-default plea-offer procedural-default standard-of-review state-procedural-default Whether Petitioner was denied his Fourteenth Amendment right to the Due Process of Law
23-6696 Anthony Daniels v. Mark Miller, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process due-process-violation ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment suggestive-identification Whether the District Court errored for denial of Petitioner's claim that the State Identification was suggestive, improper and the State Court conclus…
23-6709 Martin Akerman v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence detention-challenge due-process escape-hatch-provision federal-detention habeas-corpus posse-comitatus standing statutory-interpretation Does the Chief Data Officer of the National Guard have the right to challenge the legality of his detention and seek relief through a 28 U.S.C. § 2255…
23-6711 Ronnie Collins, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence harmful-error harmless-error witness-testimony Whether the limits placed on Collins's right to cross-examine the central witness against him constituted harmful error
23-6722 Jeffrey Holland v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP crack-cocaine criminal-sentencing due-process fair-trial first-step-act jury-trial sentence-enhancement sentencing-discretion sentencing-enhancements trial-transcript Whether a district court can refuse to review intervening changes in facts that contradict and undermine presentence report findings used to apply a s…
23-6725 Deonte Marques Curry v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process electronic-filing forfeiture notice restitution sentencing sentencing-error Whether due process is satisfied when the government relies solely on the district court's electronic case filing system to notify defendant's counsel…
23-6730 Bryant Calloway v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review material-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility witness-testimony Whether the fundamental fairness of the criminal trial was violated by the district court's denial of the petitioner's motion to dismiss the indictmen…
23-6735 Fuhai Li v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability change-in-law conflict-of-interest fraudulent-conduct ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandate-recall new-evidence Whether the court of appeals erred in denying petitioner's motion to recall its mandate when petitioner has demonstrated actual innocence or a change …
23-6739 John Richard Brinson v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment child-pornography criminal-history criminal-sentencing due-process life-without-parole rehabilitation sentencing-reasonableness substantive-due-process substantive-reasonableness Whether a life without parole sentence for a 24 year old with no prior criminal record for producing child pornography is substantively unreasonable?
23-6740 George Willie Rios v. Arizona Arizona Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment civil-rights counsel-presence criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment miranda-v-arizona miranda-warning right-to-counsel Does Miranda require that a person subjected to custodial interrogation be informed of his right to invoke the presence of counsel during questioning?
23-6741 Gerardo Ortiz v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-confront witness-testimony Did the Ninth Circuit err in refusing to apply clearly established Confrontation Clause precedent and assess whether the prosecutor's affirmative misa…
23-6742 Alexander D. Pennington v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 5th-amendment-rights 5th-circuit criminal-investigation criminal-procedure custody fifth-amendment interrogation miranda-rights search-warrant Is a suspect in a criminal investigation 'in custody' when he is ordered out of his residence by armed agents who broke down his door to execute a sea…
23-6743 Loren J. Larson, Jr. v. Alaska Alaska Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims effective-assistance effective-representation exhaustion-requirement exhaustion-requirements habeas-corpus procedural-default sixth-amendment Does the Sixth Amendment right to 'effective representation' require that an attorney provide meaningful, conflict free consultation prior to the atto…
23-6748 Eric Lavell Minter v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-court-review civil-rights clear-error-standard criminal-enterprise criminal-procedure due-process evidence fact-based-enhancement managerial-role sentencing sentencing-enhancement Must a district court find that a defendant exercised control over another participant in a criminal enterprise before considering a managerial-role s…
23-6749 Craig Alan Morrison v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing judicial-interpretation physical-restraint plain-text recurring-issue sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines victim-definition Whether a defendant should receive an increased sentence under U.S.S.G. § 3A1.3 for having 'physically restrained' a victim, where the conduct at issu…
23-6750 Patrick Aboite v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) complies with the Second Amendment?
23-6751 Delon Joseph Adams v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 concurrent-sentence concurrent-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute firearm-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. Section 924(c)(1)(D)Gi) precludes a sentencing court from imposing a sentence for a Section 924(c) firearm offense partially concurr…
23-6754 Rodwick F. Abadam v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment appellate-review appellate-waiver constitutional-violation miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement second-amendment sentencing sentencing-error Did the Ninth Circuit err when it failed to find that sentencing errors that violated Mr. Abadam's Second Amendment rights can amount to a 'miscarriag…
23-6756 Kenneth J. Coleman v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP competency-hearing confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency pate-v-robinson plea-agreement Is the petitioner constitutionally entitled to a hearing upon the issue of his competency to stand trial
23-6759 Hia-Keem Don'ae Rice v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing supervised-release written-judgment Whether Rule 43(a)(3) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure permits the sentencing judge to impose in the written judgment conditions of supervis…
23-6763 Armani L. Moore v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure evidence evidence-law memory-loss sixth-amendment testimonial-hearsay unavailable-witness witness-unavailability Whether a declarant is 'unavailable to testify' for purposes of the Sixth Amendment
23-6767 Michael Samuel Hudson, Jr. v. Melissa Andrewjeski, Superintendent, Coyote Ridge Corrections Center Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-rights citizenship due-process fourteenth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-clause hurtado-v-california incorporation-doctrine privileges-and-immunities privileges-immunities Does the Fourteenth Amendment protect rights against state intrusion?
23-6768 Vidal Garza-Morin v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
23-6769 Derrick Durrell Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law federal-jurisdiction 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, …
23-6770 Juan Carlos Burns v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1 18-usc-924 crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing second-degree-murder sentencing-enhancement statutory-definition statutory-interpretation violent-crime Does second-degree murder in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1 categorically qualify as a 'crime of violence' within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A)?
23-6774 Tremayne Silas v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP ambiguity appeal-waiver circuit-court criminal-appeal guilty-plea involuntary involuntary-plea legal-ambiguity summary-reversal Whether this Court should summarily reverse the Eighth Circuit's dismissal of Silas's appeal when the appeal waiver is ambiguous as to whether it appl…
23-6777 Monty Dwayne Sullivan v. Wyoming Wyoming Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights court-transcripts discovery discovery-rules due-process exculpatory-evidence medical-records retroactive-application Does Mr. Sullivan have a Constitutional Right to Court Transcripts and Medical Records dispositive to the State's theory of the case?
23-6783 Kevin F. Jackson v. Applied Materials Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP court-reporter due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jameson-vs-desta mandatory-arbitration pro-se-plaintiff Is a United States citizen considered to have received due process of law in a court ordered mandatory arbitration hearing if the Pro Se plaintiff is …
23-6790 James Hamilton v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split drug-sentencing ineffective-assistance mens-rea sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Was counsel ineffective in violation of the Sixth Amendment for failing to recognize and address the methamphetamine disparity violation committed by …
23-6793 Timothy Burks v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022)
23-6794 Isaac Cardona v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent double-jeopardy due-process merger-problem money-laundering specified-unlawful-activity statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine whether-the-promotional-money-laundering-provision-violates-due-process
23-6796 Yanier N. Tellez, aka Yanier Tellez-Crespo v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment consent consent-search fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure seizure-of-evidence traffic-stop wallet-search warrantless-search Was the District Court's denial of Petitioner's Motion to Suppress a result of clear error in determining the facts relative to consent for search ver…
23-6798 Qaya Mikel Gordon v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP congressional-power constitutional-authority due-process indian-affairs major-crimes-act native-nations tribal-sovereignty trust-obligations Whether Congress exceeded its authority under the Constitution by enacting the Major Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. §1153, as applied to crimes committed by In…
23-6799 Leon King v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion legal-reasoning sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) requires a sentencing court which rejects a defendant's nonfrivilous arguments in favor of a lower sentence to explain its…
23-6802 Wally Irizarry-Sisco v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP child-sex-abuse child-sex-case criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-law excited-utterance hearsay hearsay-exception sixth-amendment Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 803(2) encompasses out-of-court statements that go beyond the exciting event, are elicited by questioning, and are in…
23-6803 Eduardo Garcia Briseno v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres constitutional-interpretation criminal-law historical-record notice notice-clause prior-conviction-exception sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-text supreme-court-precedent Whether, in light of the historical record, Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), should be overruled?
23-6808 Joseph Michael King, aka Joey King v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process non-indigent sentencing sentencing-enhancement special-assessment statutory-interpretation Whether the Government should bear the burden of proving that a defendant is 'non-indigent' under 18 U.S.C. § 3014(a) before the district court impose…
23-6809 Warren Lee Mackey v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence harmless-error judicial-precedent prejudice prejudice-standard trial-testimony witness-bolstering witness-testimony Whether this Court should adopt a test that vacates a conviction where there is a 'reasonable probability' that improper bolstering or vouching testim…
23-6817 Israel Santiago-Lugo v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-rules-criminal-procedure first-circuit judicial-quorum nguyen-v-us notice-of-appeal standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Whether the First Circuit's Judgment was a valid decision by a quorum
23-6818 Romeo Kevante Pride v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by denying Mr. Pride's argument that the District Court committed reversible error by imposing a 110…
23-6820 Marvin Carcamo v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure gang-membership harmless-error ninth-circuit procedural-error racketeering rico-conspiracy sentencing-guidelines Did the Ninth Circuit incorrectly affirm the district court's procedural error determining racketeering conduct was reasonably foreseeable under the U…
23-696 Colorado Republican State Central Committee v. Norma Anderson, et al. Colorado Dismissed Amici (3)Response Waived 14th-amendment disqualification-clause due-process election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment insurrection political-parties presidential-eligibility section-3 state-authority Whether the President falls within the list of officials subject to the disqualification provision of Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment?
23-732 Richard Plishka v. William Skurla, et al. Ohio Denied Response Waived civil-courts civil-procedure constitutional-law ecclesiastical-abstention first-amendment religious-freedom standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the First Amendment doctrine of ecclesiastical abstention operates to deprive civil courts of subject-matter jurisdiction
23-733 Jada Ku v. Great Falls College Montana State University Montana Denied Response Waived accommodation civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process educational-discrimination equal-protection mental-health-rights reasonable-accommodation standing state-university Can the Great Falls College Montana State University discriminate against me because of my mental disability?
23-738 Leasa Marie Wright v. City of Ponca City, Oklahoma, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied civil-rights civil-rights-violation discovery due-process emergency-medical-care medical-negligence municipal-liability qualified-immunity spinal-cord-injury substantive-due-process Is it a violation of substantive due process for state medical personnel to actively and affirmatively inflict injury on a patient?
23-739 Jodi A. Schwendimann, fka Jodi A. Dalvey v. Neenah, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit Denied 35-usc-103 federal-circuit-review ksr-standard ksr-v-teleflex obviousness patent-law primary-reference prior-art wbip-v-kohler yeda-v-mylan Obviousness analysis under 35 U.S.C. § 103
23-748 Langston Austin, et al. v. Glynn County, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied 11th-amendment circuit-split eleventh-amendment eleventh-circuit employment-law fair-labor-standards-act individual-liability public-officials state-officials Whether state officials are subject to liability as employers in their individual capacity for violations of the FLSA
23-749 Edith Littlefield Sundby, as Trustee v. Jeffrey Myers, et al. California Denied amendment-iii civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-interpretation legal-rationing standing supreme-court-review takings Whether the Amendment III due process guarantee is being selectively rationed by California courts
23-750 Jennica Carmona, Individually, and as Parent and Natural Guardian of B. A., et al. v. New Jersey Department of Education, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-exhaustion change-in-placement disability-rights due-process educational-placement equal-protection idea individuals-with-disabilities-education-act rehabilitation-act standing virtual-instruction Whether the move from in-person to virtual educational instruction and support services constitutes a change in placement under the Individuals with D…
23-754 Van Sant & Co. v. Town of Calhan, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied antitrust-immunity circuit-split civil-rights due-process government-petitioning-activity local-government local-government-antitrust-act noerr-pennington noerr-pennington-doctrine summary-judgment Does the LGAA entitle local government officials to immunity from antitrust damages when they act unlawfully?
23-758 Brian Chancey v. BASF Corporation Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived ada americans-with-disabilities-act business-necessity covid-policy direct-threat disability-discrimination employment-discrimination qualification-standards retaliation Did the Court abuse its discretion in dismissing the amended complaint for disability discrimination and retaliation?
23-770 John Doe v. Bill Crouch, in His Official Capacity as Cabinet Secretary of the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge equal-protection federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction redressability rooker-feldman standing state-court Does Rooker-Feldman bar jurisdiction when declaring a statute unconstitutional would undermine a state court's reliance upon the statute?
23-771 Jill L. Stein, et al. v. Federal Election Commission District of Columbia Denied Response Waived ballot-access federal-election-commission minor-party presidential-primary public-financing ballot-access equal-protection minor-party-candidates presidential-election primary-campaign public-financing Whether 26 U.S.C. § 9032(6) violates the equal-protection
23-772 David Andrew Bardes v. George W. Bush, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-challenge due-process federal-dismissal judicial-procedure pro-se standing supreme-court Why does the Constitution, or laws of any kind, not apply to George Walker BUSH or 'his associates? Why has the Constitution failed? Why does the Supr…
23-774 Melissa Groo v. Amy Eddy, Judge, Montana Eleventh Judicial District Court Montana Denied Response Waived due-process forum-state intentional-tort non-resident-defendant personal-jurisdiction purposeful-direction social-media walden-v-fiore Whether the Due Process Clause permits a state court to exercise specific personal jurisdiction over a non-resident defendant in an intentional tort c…
23-782 Kent Thomas Warren v. Department of Education Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights department-of-education discrimination due-process federal-financial-assistance legal-mandate loan-default non-discrimination student-loans Is the U.S. Department of Education lawfully permitted to mandate payment on student loans taken by a student when non-discriminatory conditions for f…
23-783 Darren Kossen v. Asia Pacific Airlines, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-hearing air-21-statute burden-of-proof burdens-of-proof circumstantial-evidence clear-and-convincing-evidence legal-standard prima-facie res-judicata whistleblower-protection Did the ALJ, ARB and the 9th Circuit turn on its head AIR 21 law on burdens of proof?
23-787 Sierra Nevada Transportation, Inc. v. Nevada Transportation Authority Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-U.S.C.-1983 42-U.S.C.-1985 dormant-Commerce-Clause federal-licensing federal-preemption interstate-commerce public-necessity state-regulation transportation-services Does a federally-licensed limousine company state a valid claim for relief under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1985 against state regulators for violating the…
23-791 Peter Thompson v. Gregg Sullivan, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court-proceedings due-process fraud ninth-circuit-rules pro-se-filing procedural-due-process record record-exclusion standing Did the Ninth Circuit err in concluding that the lower US District Court of Montana proceedings could be equitably affirmed when the district court ob…
23-792 Jehan Agrama v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-search due-process international-comity investigative-procedure irs-summons powell-vs-united-states treaty-disclosure united-states-vs-clarke Whether the IRS summons should be quashed due to tainted investigation
23-801 Richard George, et al. v. Triton Property Investments, LLC California Denied Response Waived civil-rights contract-clause due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants seventh-amendment state-courts Whether the empirical evidence of bias against, otherwise identically situated, pro se litigants in state courts proves the judicial intent to discrim…
23-809 Peter Kleidman v. Martin R. Barash, Judge, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived brown-vs-board civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-tort due-process equitable-relief federal-judges free-speech judicial-immunity prospective-injunction pulliam-precedent standing Are federal judges immune from claims for equitable relief?
23-811 Barry Ahuruonye v. Department of the Interior District of Columbia Denied Response Waived administrative-law article-iii civil-procedure collateral-estoppel due-process issue-preclusion merit-systems-protection-board mootness standing wage-increase Whether the principles of collateral estoppel/issue-preclusion applies when Merit-Systems-Protection-Board-has-resolved-an-issue
23-827 Clifton Capital Group, LLC v. Bradley Sharp Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived article-iii article-three-standing bankruptcy bankruptcy-appeal bankruptcy-standing chapter-11 chapter-eleven creditor creditor-rights injury-in-fact standing trustee Whether a creditor has Article III standing to challenge a bankruptcy court order awarding a bonus to the former Chapter 11 trustee when the creditor …
23-835 Association of Club Executives of Dallas, Inc., et al. v. City of Dallas, Texas Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived content-based content-neutral content-neutrality evidentiary-burden first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny secondary-effects sexually-oriented-businesses strict-scrutiny Does the secondary-effects-doctrine survive Reed-v-Town-of-Gilbert and City-of-Austin-v-Reagan-National-Advertising
23-838 Brian D. Swanson v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived 17th-amendment ballot-legality civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process election-law elections equal-suffrage seventeenth-amendment standing statutory-violation Does petitioner suffer a concrete and particularized injury, for the purpose of establishing standing, when the Secretary of State issues an illegal b…
23-845 Timothy Ray Vasquez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived bribery criminal-procedure due-process honest-services-fraud official-act public-official quid-pro-quo quid-pro-quo-bribery statutory-interpretation Does quid pro quo bribery permit conviction for honest services fraud if a public official received a benefit in exchange for a potential future offic…
23-859 Zachary S. Spiegel v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived attempted-enticement circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute free-speech mandatory-sentencing obscene-speech obscenity sentencing statutory-interpretation substantial-step Does speech alone constitute the 'substantial step' for a charge of attempted enticement of a minor?
23-864 Robert Holton v. Robert Henon, aka Bobby Henon, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eminent-domain standing takings Whether the district court abused its discretion by denying the plaintiff's motion to defer ruling on summary judgment to allow for the deposition of …
23-865 Dale Wendall Laue v. State Bar of California California Denied Response Waived civil-rights diversity-equity-inclusion due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest licensing moral-character standing state-bar-admission Whether admission to a State Bar constitutes a liberty interest
23-884 Marco Antonio Perez v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process grand-jury harmless-error judicial-interpretation release-violation sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum Does 18 USC § 3147 authorize a sentence exceeding the statutory maximum for the underlying offense?
23-888 Alfredo Felipe Rasco v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure deportation-consequences guilty-plea guilty-plea-withdrawal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel padilla-precedent padilla-v-kentucky rule-11 rule-11-violation Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision to deny my C.O.A. and the district court's denial of my motion to withdraw my guilty plea contravenes this Cou…
23-895 Richard Rogalinski v. Meta Platforms, Inc. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived censorship civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech protected-speech social-media standing state-action Whether the Petitioner sufficiently stated a claim for relief under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution
23-907 Pablo Pastrana v. New York New York Denied Response Waived brown-vs-texas constitutional-law fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-roadblocks probable-cause reasonable-suspicion roadblock search-and-seizure Whether a vehicular roadblock satisfies the standard for a reasonable search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment
23A718 Coronavirus Reporter, et al. v. Apple, Inc. Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete antitrust market-definition monopoly sherman-act software-distribution tying-arrangement Whether Apple's digital software distribution practices on the iPhone constitute an unlawful tying arrangement in violation of antitrust law
23M65 Dustin Nguyen v. United States Eighth Circuit Presumed Complete None
23M66 Saloojas, Inc. v. Aetna Health of California, Inc. Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None