Conference: 2024-03-22

94 cases — 0 granted, 94 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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22-6076 Joseph Rauber v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Relisted (3)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offenses mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-statute statutory-interpretation Whether 'and' means 'and' for the purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)(1)
22-6391 Nonami Palomares v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3)IFP criminal-history drug-crimes drug-offense federal-sentencing mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant is ineligible for relief from a mandatory minimum sentence if her criminal history runs afoul of any one of the disqualifying crit…
22-6536 Antoine D. Jackson v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-history due-process safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether the word 'and' in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)(1) should be interpreted in the disjunctive or conjunctive
22-6803 Mario C. Thomas v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-history criminal-history-points criminal-procedure federal-sentencing mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the 'and' in 18 U.S.C. §3553(f)(1) means 'and' or 'or'
22-7059 Aaron M. Haynes v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-history-points criminal-justice federal-sentencing first-step-act mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation Whether the 'and' in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)(1) means 'and' or 'or'
22-7436 Chad Robert Kolkman v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-history criminal-sentencing legal-interpretation mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation statutory-text Whether the 'and' in 18 U.S.C. §3553(f)(1) means 'and' consistent with the ordinary meaning of the word, so that the person remains eligible unless th…
22-7650 Nolan Washington v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in its interpretation of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)(1)
22-7702 Antonio Montero v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3553(f) criminal-history criminal-procedure federal-sentencing safety-valve sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation whether-the-trial-judge-must-find-montero-violated-all-conditions-to-be-eligible-for-sentence-reduction
22-7709 Ashley Latreece Thackerson v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-history first-step-act safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err by finding that Petitioner did not qualify for safety valve relief under the First Step Act 18 U.S.C. § 355…
22-7756 Andre Zeno v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-history criminal-history-points criminal-procedure safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-minimum Whether the 'and' in § 3553(f)(1) means 'and' or 'or'
22-7807 Chayna Holguin v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-history federal-sentencing first-step-act rule-of-lenity safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the 'and' in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)(1) means 'and' or 'or' for determining eligibility for the 'safety valve' provision
22-828 Roger E. Pace v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2) circuit-split criminal-history federal-sentencing mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the 'and' in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)(1) means 'and' or 'or' for safety-valve relief from mandatory-minimum sentences
23-377 Chris Dutra, et al. v. Kim Jackson Ninth Circuit Denied circuit-court-precedent clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment ninth-circuit police-conduct qualified-immunity supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court's precedents are the only source of clearly established law for purposes of qualified immunity
23-46 United States v. Cassity Danielle Jones Fourth Circuit GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant must meet certain criminal history criteria to qualify for 'safety-valve' sentencing relief under 18 U.S.C. 3553(f)(1)
23-463 Elizabeth Brokamp v. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York, et al. Second Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split content-based content-based-regulation evidence first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny licensing-scheme motion-to-dismiss talk-therapy Whether a New York law requiring speakers to obtain a license before offering talk therapy pertaining to 'disabilit[ies], problem[s], or disorder[s] o…
23-514 Kim Jackson v. Chris Dutra, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-law due-process judicial-system qualified-immunity standing stare-decisis Whether the Court should reverse or recalibrate the doctrine of qualified immunity
23-5149 Javier Escalera, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-history fifth-circuit mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant is ineligible for relief from a mandatory minimum sentence if his criminal history runs afoul of any one of the disqualifying crit…
23-524 American Forest Resource Council, et al. v. United States, et al. District of Columbia Denied Amici (4) antiquities-act conservation-reserves land-management national-monument o&c-act presidential-power sustained-yield timber-production Whether the President can use an Antiquities-Act-Proclamation to override Congress's plain-text-in-the-O&C-Act to repurpose vast-swaths-of-O&C-timberl…
23-525 Murphy Company, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (4) antiquities-act federal-land-management federal-lands land-use-restrictions national-monument national-monuments oregon-and-california-railroad-and-coos-bay-wagon- presidential-authority presidential-power statutory-interpretation sustained-yield-timber-production Whether the Antiquities Act authorizes the President to declare federal lands part of a national monument where a separate federal statute reserves th…
23-5304 Jaquantious Hutchison v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-history federal-sentencing mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether the 'and' in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)(1) is conjunctive or disjunctive
23-551 GMS Mine Repair v. Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, et al. District of Columbia Denied administrative-law auer-deference chevron-deference chevron-doctrine circuit-court-conflict civil-procedure judicial-review regulatory-interpretation statutory-interpretation Whether the Court should overrule Kisor or clarify that the 'traditional tools' of construction must be used to dispel ambiguity in a regulation, rath…
23-555 Louis A. Wilson v. United States District of Columbia Denied 18-usc-3582 circuit-split concepcion-v-united-states extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons habeas habeas-corpus non-retroactive-law sentencing-commission sentencing-reduction u-s-sentencing-commission Can non-retroactive changes in the law constitute 'extraordinary and compelling reasons' authorizing a district court to reduce a prisoner's sentence …
23-5604 Ernesto Ordunez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP career-offender controlled-substance crime-of-violence elements-clause preservation-of-error prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether an objection that a prior conviction is not a crime of violence and a district court's subsequent analysis of whether it meets the elements cl…
23-5691 Ricardo Garcia, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (3)IFP circuit-split criminal-history due-process mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant is ineligible for relief from a mandatory minimum sentence if his criminal history runs afoul of any one of the disqualifying crit…
23-5712 Gerald Vaughn Gwen v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (3)IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights direct-review due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-fairness writ-of-appeal Whether the petitioner was denied due process and a fair trial due to the state court's failure to hold an evidentiary hearing on his claim of actual …
23-5798 Edgar Eugene Oliver v. Florida Commission on Offender Review Florida Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review offender-review separation-of-powers state-agency-power supreme-court-authority Does the Florida Commission on Offender Review have the freedom to disobey the United States Supreme Court, the Constitution of the United States, the…
23-5883 Shardaye Jeacole Malik Bey v. Ohio Sixth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1443 appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights court-fees criminal-procedure criminal-removal due-process filing-fees in-forma-pauperis Whether filing fees are required for removal of a criminal action under 28 U.S.C. § 1443
23-5924 Festus Okwudili Ohan v. American Medical Association, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-imprisonment federal-crime genocide human-rights international-law judicial-procedure standing whistleblower-protection Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims for lack of standing and due process violations
23-6029 Brianna Irene Bustam v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-history drug-offenses first-step-act rule-of-lenity safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the 'and' in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)(1) means 'and' or 'or' for determining eligibility for the 'safety valve' provision
23-6056 Talthia Sorbel v. South Dakota, ex rel. South Dakota Department of Social Services, et al. South Dakota Denied Relisted (3)IFP adoption civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission family judicial-review standing Whether the lower court erred in denying the petitioner's request to present new evidence in the case
23-6089 Christopher Lenard Blockson v. Ronald Oliver, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct standing What is the proper course of action when a court ignores the record on appeal and engages in fraud on the court?
23-6288 Carlos Velasquez v. Robert Baldock, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights court-procedure fed-r-civ-p-59 fed-r-civ-p-60(d) fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-fraud judicial-immunity judicial-malpractice new-trial-timing rule-60 Will the Supreme Court of the United States reject Political-Fraud,fraud-and-false-statements-in-official-transactions,when-expressed-by-political-aut…
23-6337 Mahfooz Ahmad v. Colin Day, et al. Second Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2284 arbitration-agreement civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court district-court-composition federal-arbitration-act federal-law-challenge ninth-amendment seventh-amendment What does 28 U.S. Code § 2284 mandate regarding the composition of a district court when an action challenges the constitutionality of a federal law?
23-636 Atif Ahmad Rafay v. Eric Jackson Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process false-confession false-confessions habeas-corpus police-coercion police-misconduct undercover-operation wrongful-conviction wrongful-convictions Should this Court summarily reverse the Ninth Circuit for failing to address petitioner's preserved claim that his conviction was premised on a confes…
23-6490 Johnny Patterson v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process florida-constitution judgment-of-acquittal procedural-due-process Did the court violate Petitioner Johnny Patterson procedural due process rights under the 5th and 14th Amendments under the U.S. Constitution and Arti…
23-6491 Peyton John Wesley Hopson v. Deborah S. Hunt Sixth Circuit Denied IFP certificate-of-good-cause certificate-of-good-faith circuit-court counsel-appointment district-court due-process jurisdiction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-circuit Did the Sixth Circuit lose jurisdiction to proceed to review where the Sixth Circuit failed to comply with the Sixth Amendment requirement to appoint …
23-6504 Tormu E. Prall v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP cause-and-prejudice constitutional-error denial-of-counsel due-process habeas-corpus inequitable judicial-review lower-federal-courts rule-60(b) rule-60b Is it a grievous wrong when the lower federal courts demonstrably misread and reshape a habeas-corpus-claim?
23-6507 In Re Peter Alan Hearn Denied IFP 2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing takings Whether the government's categorical ban on the possession of firearms by law-abiding citizens in their homes for self-defense violates the Second Ame…
23-6512 Douglas Wayne Sokell v. David Pedro, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review life-sentence prisoner-detention recidivism sentencing three-strikes-law Was it constitutional to be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole or release, using recidivism (3 strikes) as a main fact, whe…
23-6513 Michael Mogan v. Sacks, Ricketts & Case LLP, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP anti-slapp-statute civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure magistrate-judge magistrate-jurisdiction recusal rule-11-sanctions standing Did the Ninth Circuit erroneously fail to recognize that 28 U.S.C. § 636(c) precludes the parties from selecting a magistrate judge
23-6515 John Edward Hall v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP burden-of-proof death-penalty due-process federal-habeas standard-of-review state-court Whether the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) (28 U.S.C. 2254(d)) governing federal habeas review of state court decisions…
23-6516 Samuel T. Whatley, et al. v. City of North Charleston, South Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process election-interference federal-jurisdiction freedom-of-information governmental-immunity search-and-seizure transparency treason Are intergovernmental agencies immune to federal law prosecutions?
23-6518 Anthony Bailey v. Nevada Parole Board, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights digital-privacy due-process search-and-seizure standing Whether the government's warrantless search and seizure of a person's private digital data violates the Fourth Amendment
23-652 Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections v. Berman Justus, Jr. Fourth Circuit Denied civil-procedure equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstance federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-60(b)(6) habeas habeas-corpus mental-illness statute-of-limitations Whether a habeas petitioner can show that a mental illness constitutes an 'extraordinary circumstance' that warrants reopening a final judgment under …
23-6522 Autley I. Salahuddin, II v. Scott Wilkes, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence direct-appeal exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus habeas-petition jury-review miscarriage-of-justice new-evidence prerequisites scientific-evidence Whether the filing of a direct appeal is a prerequisite to the filing of a habeas petition?
23-6529 In Re Raymond Ramirez Denied IFP 14th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence scientific-evidence successive-petition Whether the court of appeals clearly abused its discretion and deprived the Petitioner of his constitutional rights to Due Process under the 14th Amen…
23-6537 Gregory Steshenko v. Foothill-De Anza Community College District, et al. California Denied IFP ostensibly justified by business necessity violated the constitutional equal-protection business-necessity civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection public-education public-interest standing Whether permission of discrimination in public education against the protected classes
23-6538 Ye-Ying Cen v. Oliver Wilfred Cass Minnesota Denied IFP alimony-tax-law cognitive-impairments due-process fairness fiduciary-duty guardian-ad-litem legal-ethics procedural-fairness spousal-support Informed-consent-breach-of-fiduciary-duty
23-6561 Lawrence Edward Thompson v. Texas Texas Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
23-6564 Jerome M. Teats v. Brandon Watwood, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP collateral-proceeding collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-rule habeas-corpus martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan state-procedural-framework tennessee Did the decision in Martinez v Ryan require claims to be raised beyond the initial collateral proceeding for exhaustion purposes in Tennessee and othe…
23-6578 Jeffrey Ray Sundwall v. Florida Florida Denied IFP civil-liberties constitutional-rights criminal-post-conviction due-process final-judgment habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure precedential-effect statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Whether a procedural declaration that has never been construed for precedential effect can be considered a final judgment that triggers the one-year s…
23-6582 Joseph Emerson v. United States District Court, et al. Ohio Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-corruption defamation due-process employment-discrimination extraordinary-writ favoritism interstate-dispute judicial-misconduct nepotism standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the dismissal of his cases by the Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Sharon Kennedy, who…
23-6583 Muhammad Khan v. SAP Labs, LLC Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 9th-circuit appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment judicial-review notice-of-appeal personal-property special-needs time-limitation unreasonable-searches-and-seizures warrantless-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and indefinite retention of a person's personal property, without any showing of exigent circumstances or…
23-6598 Shuaib A. Haji Mohamed v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-claim constitutional-rights discretionary-review federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default state-review Has a state prisoner seeking federal habeas corpus made a substantial showing that his petition should have proceeded further where the procedural def…
23-660 Grupo Unidos por el Canal, S.A., et al. v. Autoridad del Canal de Panama Eleventh Circuit Denied arbitration arbitrator-impartiality disclosure disclosure-requirements evident-partiality federal-arbitration-act reasonable-impression-of-partiality vacatur What is the standard for determining whether an arbitrator's failure to disclose constitutes evident partiality justifying vacatur of the arbitral awa…
23-6603 Johnnie Demond Jackson v. Kevin R. Sproul, Sheriff, Dougherty County, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights confinement constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction interference jurisdiction retaliation summary-judgment Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the defendants' actions, which allegedly caused him more than 30 minutes of delay in r…
23-6617 Michael J. Harvey v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-standards civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-rights de-novo-review due-process free-speech judicial-review medical-assistance standing Did the DC apply de novo review to A.'s Complaint?
23-6651 Falastin Martin v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction government-accountability judicial-review legal-immunity sovereign-immunity whistleblower-protection Will the courts recognize that individuals that work for the U.S. Government are not above U.S. law?
23-6653 Mark Marvin v. United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure first-amendment free-speech habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mandamus standing Whether petitioner has standing to file a habeas and mandamus petition
23-6655 Ralph Hall v. Anthony J. Annucci, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-action constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment federal-law habeas-corpus intellectual-disability judicial-review legal-procedure Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who has been found to be intellectual…
23-666 James T. Cunningham v. United States Armed Forces Denied court-martial criminal-procedure due-process military-justice non-unanimous-verdict prejudice-test sentencing unanimous-verdict victim-impact-statement Whether Senior Airman James T. Cunningham was entitled to a unanimous verdict in his court-martial when the Government convicted him of murder—a serio…
23-6660 Douglas Manning v. New Jersey New Jersey Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech judicial-review jurisdiction legal-relief procedural-due-process standing Question not identified
23-6728 In Re Kimberlee Pitawanakwat Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction general-crimes-act indian-rights major-crimes-act stare-decisis supremacy-clause treaty-interpretation treaty-of-fort-laramie Does it violate the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) and the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution to subject Indians to stand federal trial…
23-674 Rafael Hernández-Montañez v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico First Circuit Denied Amici (1) bankruptcy civil-procedure financial-crisis financial-oversight-and-management-board judicial-jurisdiction municipal-bankruptcy promesa promesa-act puerto-rico puerto-rico-debt territorial-instrumentality territorial-oversight Whether an action to enforce the provisions of Titles I and II of PROMESA may be brought before the judge appointed by the Chief Justice to preside on…
23-6766 Zavian Munize Jordan v. Chris Newman, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP binding-authority due-process lower-court precedent standard-of-review supreme-court Can a lower Court Use a different Standard other than the precedent Setting Standards from this Court?
23-678 Pedro Pierluisi, Governor of Puerto Rico, et al. v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico First Circuit Denied bankruptcy-code close-nexus-test fiscal-plan oversight-board policy-dispute promesa related-to-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction title-iii Title-III-court Under-PROMESA-Section-306(a)(2)-subject-matter-jurisdiction
23-6800 Jorge Espinosa v. New York New York Denied Response WaivedIFP clear-cut-and-dispositive constitutional-right criminal-defense due-process error-and-prejudice ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-error prejudice-analysis single-error Strickland strickland-standard Whether all ineffective assistance of counsel claims are assessed under the Strickland error-and-prejudice rule, or whether such claims based on a sin…
23-6821 Enrique Zacarias Diaz v. Oregon Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim
23-6853 William Marcellus Campbell v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review merits-determination procedural-denial standard-of-review Whether a court of appeals must state the basis for denying a certificate of appealability
23-6856 Stephen Aguiar v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process fraud-on-court government-fraud habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rule-60b sixth-amendment Whether the Second Circuit wrongly denied a COA
23-6857 Lamar Gibson v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance lower-courts post-conviction-relief statutory-violation trial-testimony Whether the petitioner's due process, fair trial, and 6th amendment rights were violated when the lower courts omitted, manipulated, and altered trial…
23-6862 Yasser AbdelHaq v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process exhaustion exhaustion-of-remedies federal-courts jackson-v-virginia judicial-review state-courts substantive-review Whether the Petitioner's Federal Constitutional Right to Due Process of Law Was Violated When His Jackson v. Virginia Claim Was Not Substantively Revi…
23-6866 Cesar Abreu v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility federal-rule-of-evidence-404b federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment narcotics narcotics-distribution prior-conviction prior-convictions search-and-seizure Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, affirming Petitioner's conviction of narcotics distribution in the …
23-6868 David Wayne Nelson v. Jim Salmonsen, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct Did the U.S. court of appeals err in its rulings on the petitioner's habeas corpus petition?
23-6869 Corey Jarren Forbito v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment certiorari-petition circuit-split civil-rights constitutional constitutional-challenge due-process firearms gun-rights second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment?
23-6876 Joseph Neil Bronson, Jr. v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-attempt criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech legislative-intent overbroad post-conviction-relief standing statutory-interpretation vagueness Is IP U.S.C. §1994 unconstitutionally vague or overbroad as applied in Bronson's Metaphysical attempt?
23-6878 Jose Luis Avalos-Sanchez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-6880 Jamel Tyree Lunsford v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
23-6881 Miguel Salinas, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession firearms interstate-travel second-amendment standing 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)
23-6882 Steven Brown v. Felicia Adkins, Warden, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection federalism marriage same-sex Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires states to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states
23-784 Kenneth James Rosellini v. New Jersey Office of Attorney Ethics New Jersey Denied civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech legal-ethics res-judicata Can an attorney be sanctioned for failure to obey tribunal rules when asserting unconstitutionality under the First and Fourteenth Amendments?
23-793 Isidro Javier Armenta v. California California Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment automated-enforcement automated-traffic-enforcement confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause holding in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts extends to automated traffic enforcement system schemes
23-798 EEE Minerals, LLC, et al. v. North Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied civil-rights common-law constitutional-rights due-process eighth-circuit just-compensation property-taking sovereign-immunity takings Whether sovereign immunity bars a claim asserting the constitutional right to just compensation for a taking of property by a state?
23-822 Nicholas Sandmann v. New York Times Company, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived fact-vs-opinion first-amendment free-speech milkovich-standard milkovich-v-lorain opinion opinion-doctrine sensory-impressions sixth-circuit Do statements conveying observed sensory impressions in factual, descriptive terms constitute protected 'opinion' under the First Amendment?
23-829 City of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, et al. v. Deer Creek Water Corporation Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived 1926(b) 82-o.s.-1324.35 civil-procedure federal-obligations oklahoma-law private-corporation standing state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation waiver Whether a private corporation may waive State sovereignty without the permission of the State
23-850 Lucinda Jones v. David W. McKeague, Senior Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-judgment-act due-process due-process-claim federal-statute judicial-review jurisdiction non-merit-claim standing Does the Declaratory Act of 28 U.S.C. § 2201 afford jurisdiction over non-merit claims for due-process-violations?
23-857 Owolabi M. Salis v. Attorney Grievance Committee for the First Judicial Department New York Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure new-york-court-of-appeals referee referee-report Whether the New York Court of Appeals can adopt a Referee report that was clearly based on violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amend…
23-875 Estate of Arlene Townsend, et al. v. Steven M. Berman, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived 11-usc-327 bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-disclosure bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-professionals bankruptcy-trustee burden-shifting court-discretion fed-r-bankr-p-2014 professional-conflicts trustee-obligations Can bankruptcy courts effectively shift the burden as to 11 U.S.C. § 327 employment, absolving bankruptcy professionals from the burden of complete di…
23-882 David Emick v. Colorado, et al. Colorado Denied Response Waived civil-rights conservation-easement constructive-trust due-process takings tax-credits Did the Colorado Supreme Court err declining to review and rectify the decisions of the lower courts that ignored the very important equitable princip…
23-896 Sean Garnand, et al. v. Greg Moore, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction jurisdictional-limitation legal-question qualified-immunity Can a Circuit Court of Appeals avoid deciding purely legal qualified immunity questions over which it has interlocutory appellate jurisdiction?
23-898 Ryan Thornton v. Wisconsin Wisconsin Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof counsel criminal-procedure defendant due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-harm sixth-amendment When a defendant is harmed from Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, what is the appropriate burden of proof needed to correct this harm?
23-908 Woojin Cho v. New York New York Denied Response Waived constitutional-error due-process harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-possibility standard-of-review trial-procedure witness-credibility Whether it is constitutional error for a prosecutor in summation to express her personal belief that the defendant lied on the stand?
23-948 Texas Aromatics, L.P., et al. v. Intercontinental Terminals Company, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived absurd-consequences administrative-claim environmental-regulation federal-jurisdiction hazardous-substance maritime-law mixed-spill oil-pollution-act statutory-interpretation Whether the Oil Pollution Act, 33 U.S.C. § 2701 et seq., applies to a spill that is 91% oil and 9% a 'hazardous substance'
23M67 Christopher Hadsell v. United States Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None