Conference: 2024-04-19

65 cases — 0 granted, 65 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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Case Title Lower Court Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-1001 Larry Golden v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc. Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived 7th-amendment civil-rights due-process patent race standing Whether the District and Appellate Courts' denial of Petitioner's Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial against a White-Owned Foreign Corporation th…
23-1021 Kari Lake, et al. v. Adrian Fontes, Arizona Secretary of State, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived article-iii-standing civil-rights due-process due-process-clause election-controversy election-integrity jurisdictional-amendment national-security standing voting-machine-tampering voting-machines Whether an Article III case or controversy existed at all relevant times and still exists
23-1057 Paul Johnson v. Matthew Tepper Texas Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech judicial-neutrality party-presentation pro-se pro-se-plaintiff sua-sponte sua-sponte-arguments supreme-court-review Whether the United States Supreme Court will review the actions of a Texas Court of Appeals, which departed from its role as a neutral arbiter by enga…
23-120 United States Soccer Federation, Inc. v. Relevent Sports, LLC, et al. Second Circuit Denied CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (2) antitrust antitrust-law circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-pleading membership-association pleading sherman-act trade-restraint Whether allegations that members of an association agreed to adhere to the association's rules, without more, are sufficient to plead the element of c…
23-424 Amazon.com, Inc., et al. v. Jennifer Miller, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) circuit-split delivery-drivers employment-contract federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce local-deliveries statutory-interpretation transportation-workers Whether the Federal Arbitration Act's exemption for 'contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, or any other class of workers engaged in f…
23-427 Domino’s Pizza, LLC v. Edmond Carmona, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-procedure commerce-clause delivery-drivers federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce local-delivery standing statutory-interpretation transportation-law workers Whether local delivery drivers are 'engaged in foreign or interstate commerce' under the Federal Arbitration Act
23-460 C.K. Sales Co., LLC, et al. v. Margarito V. Canales, et al. First Circuit Denied Relisted (2) and distribute baked goods within defined intrast sell civil-procedure contract-employment contract-exemption employment-contracts employment-law exemption-clause federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce intrastate-commerce statutory-interpretation transportation-worker transportation-workers Whether the Federal Arbitration Act's exemption for 'contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, and any other class of workers engaged in …
23-5516 Angela Jane Johnson, et al. v. Victoria Fire and Casualty Company Sixth Circuit Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process judicial-process legal-review petition public-trial right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial applies to a criminal defendant's sentencing hearing
23-5896 Frank Richardson v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP §2255-motion 924(c) civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process indictment ineffective-assistance jury-instructions plain-error sentencing sentencing-jurisdiction Did the courts violate the petitioner's constitutional rights by denying his motion to vacate, set aside, or correct sentence despite errors, governme…
23-5946 Dravion Sanchez Ware v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process identification identification-evidence law-enforcement physical-restraint sentencing-guidelines surveillance-evidence Whether the physical restraint enhancement in U.S.S.G. § 2B3.1(b)(4)(B) requires more than pointing a gun at someone
23-606 Hever Alberto Mendoza-Linares v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) None
23-612 Joseph Daniel Cascino, et al. v. Jane Nelson, Texas Secretary of State Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) age-discrimination constitutional-law due-process election-law mail-in-voting standing twenty-sixth-amendment voting-rights Does Texas's restriction of no-excuse mail-in voting to individuals aged '65 years or older on election day' violate the Twenty-Sixth Amendment?
23-621 Gerald F. Lackey, in His Official Capacity as the Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles v. Damian Stinnie, et al. Fourth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (19)Response RequestedRelisted (3) 42-usc-1988 civil-rights injunction-standard judicial-procedure legal-merits merits preliminary-injunction prevailing-party standing statutory-interpretation Whether a party must obtain a ruling that conclusively decides the merits in its favor, as opposed to merely predicting a likelihood of later success,…
23-6241 Mark Emmanuel Martinez v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issues legal-procedure statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Whether the court erred in excluding exculpatory electronic evidence that could have proven the petitioner's actual innocence
23-6305 Brendan Hunt v. United States Second Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-fact first-amendment free-speech independent-review speech-protection standard-of-review true-threat Whether the appellate standard of review of a jury's determination that a particular expression constitutes a 'true threat' should be deferential or d…
23-6317 Vicky West, on Behalf of Laura West v. Garnet Hill Rehabilitation and Skilled Care Texas Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-access due-process incapacitated-person indigent-representation legal-standing power-of-attorney pro-se pro-se-representation standing Whether a legal executed POA, Pro Se which is recognized by the judicial system can be used in a C Court of law to assist or represent indigent and in…
23-655 Lawrence J. Warfield v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied bankruptcy-estate debtor-interests homestead-exemption penalty-lien tax-delinquencies trustee-avoidance trustee-rights unsecured-creditors When a bankruptcy court allows a state homestead exemption, is the debtor's exempt interest in the residence instantaneously removed from the bankrupt…
23-6574 Deirdre Baker v. JEA Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-document petition standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
23-659 Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Westside Donut Huntington Ventures LLC Second Circuit Denied appeals brief-filing circuit-rules civil-procedure clerk-error court-of-appeals due-process judicial-discretion procedural-error standing Whether inexcusable error or neglect by U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Clerk granting the defendant permission file an Appellee's brief …
23-6747 Michael L. Miller v. Jeffery Norman Eighth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-review legal-procedure reproductive-rights scotus statutory-interpretation Does the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization violate the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause …
23-6761 Feifei Gu v. Sergio Jimenez Second Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-immunity standing sua-sponte-dismissal Can the court sua sponte dismiss the case when the defendant as a Brooklyn housing court judge did not even answer/raise immunity?
23-6764 Kevin Ray Morris, Sr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus mailroom-misconduct prison-mailroom prisoner-mail procedural-default Whether the lower court erred in denying petitioner's claim to equitable tolling based on the prison mailroom's mishandling of prisoner mail, includin…
23-6779 David H. Jacob v. Rosalyn Cotton, Chairperson, Nebraska Board of Parole, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process greenholtz-v-inmates liberty-interest mathews-test mathews-v-eldridge parole parole-board-discretion parole-procedures Do Nebraska's current parole procedures still meet the requirements of the 14th Amendment's Due Process clause under the test set out in Mathews v. El…
23-6787 Jerry Means v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief state-law-rights Whether an indigent pro se defendant in a state criminal case who is prohibited by state law from raising any claim of trial court error on direct app…
23-6788 Terrance Fowler v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions maximum-penalty sentencing uncharged-crime Can a State deny a defendant due process of law by convicting and sentencing him to the maximum penalty for a crime that he was not charged with, nor …
23-6792 In Re Kinley MacDonald Denied IFP abstention child-abuse child-custody child-welfare civil-rights due-process family-law parental-rights standing state-court-jurisdiction Whether state residents can be prohibited from intervening in child custody cases based solely on hearsay accusations, while the same state is involve…
23-6806 Bruce Wayne Harp v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process jury jury-impartiality justice-system obstruction-of-justice penal-code pre-trial trial-rights When does Penal Code 21.02 adulterate the justice system, obstructing due process, pre-trial and an impartial jury?
23-6807 Floyd William Damren v. Florida Florida Denied IFP constitutional-amendments constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process florida-rule habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief scientific-evidence Does Florida's rule 3.851(d)(2)(A) violate petitioner's rights under the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments?
23-6810 Larry D. Mosley v. Phillip A. White, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied IFP Abuse-of-Discretion Equal-Protection Fourteenth-Amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance Police-Misconduct Prosecutorial-Misconduct Sixth-Amendment trial-court-discretion Ineffective-Assistance-of-Counsel
23-6814 Martin Akerman v. Court of Appeals of Virginia, et al. Virginia Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-records due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-mismanagement procedural-violations spoliation Did the Arlington Circuit Court's handling of spoliation allegations and procedural violations, including denial of access to court records, violate t…
23-6815 Martin Akerman v. Virginia State Corporation Commission, et al. Virginia Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-implications constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge state-corporation-commission Does the Supreme Court of Virginia's refusal to review the State Corporation Commission's (SCC) alleged introduction of fraudulent evidence and its pr…
23-6816 Wayne Resper v. YesCare Corp., fka Corizon Health, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP ballot-access civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process election-law election-procedures federal-court removal standing state-court voting-rights Whether the Circuit Court for Alleghany County, Maryland should have given the pro se petitioner an opportunity to challenge the removal of his compla…
23-6832 Willie Levens, II v. Louisiana Insurance Guaranty Association, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity racial-discrimination standing Whether an off-duty officer qualifies for qualified-immunity
23-6877 Omar S. Folk v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. Third Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP amended-complaint certiorari-finality civil-procedure district-court-dismissal due-process procedural-error standing summary-affirmance third-circuit-error third-circuit-review Whether the Third Circuit Erred in Summarily Affirmed District Court Dismissal on Plaintiff's Third Amend Complaint Doc. 196 before his original Cert.…
23-7008 Lawrence Martin v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-court new-trial relief trial-rights Was Martin entitled to production of documents, did a Brady violation occur when favorable material evidence was withheld/discarded, was Martin entitl…
23-7009 Warren Simpson v. Alan Simpson Arizona Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection legal-counsel liberty pro-se-representation right-to-counsel self-representation trustee Should every US citizen be provided counsel if they cannot afford it?
23-7020 Donovan A. Reid v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law case-statement civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process freedom-of-information government-transparency jurisdiction legal-provisions public-records writ-petition Whether federal agencies must allow their policies, manuals, and other internal guidance to be publicly available when employees of the federal agency…
23-7054 Robert N. Young v. King Pharmaceuticals Inc., et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust attorney-misconduct court-sanctions doj-fraud-recoveries false-claims-act judicial-procedure medicaid-drug-rebates medicaid-fraud qui-tam whistleblower-rights Question not identified
23-7055 Jacob Lyon v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-922g constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure second-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-rahimi waiver Whether an objection to a sentencing enhancement waives all other grounds for the enhancement
23-7056 Allen Brooks, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law legislative-power liberty-interests non-delegation non-delegation-doctrine retroactive-application retroactivity sex-offender-registration Did Congress's delegation to Attorneys General the retroactive reach of SORNA to offenders convicted of sex crimes before its enactment violate U.S. C…
23-7058 James E. Palmer v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equitable-tolling evidence-standard habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-remedies Whether the denial of a state prisoner's constitutional right to the writ of habeas corpus permits equitable tolling of the AEDPA statute of limitatio…
23-7064 Omar Sierre Folk v. Warden, Allenwood FCI Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2241-petition 2255-escape-hatch actual-innocence custodial-petition custody direct-cert-denial escape-hatch habeas-corpus procedural-shot procedural-standard section-2255 Whether Lower Court Misapplied Inadequate or Ineffective
23-7065 Michael Adam Carmody v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-site-location fourth-amendment home-surveillance ip-address ip-address-records privacy privacy-interest property property-rights search warrantless-search Whether the warrantless seizure of a person's historical IP address records, which includes their conduct within their homes, violates an individual's…
23-7071 Joseph Kelvin Aberant v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion advanced-age age-consideration criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit-review incarceration medical-conditions sentencing sentencing-variance variance Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by affirming the District Court's abuse of discretion by its failure to give Mr. Aberant a variance sentence and a sh…
23-7075 Breon D. Hicks v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions section-924(c) section-924c unlawful-user Whether the district court erroneously instructed the jury concerning the Section 924(c) charges?
23-7078 Jeffery Wayne Taylor v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial cross-examination due-process evidence first-step-act out-of-court-statements sixth-amendment Is it a violation of the Confrontation Clause when an out-of-court statement connecting the defendant to the crime is admitted during trial, making it…
23-7084 Gregory S. Kudla v. Kenneth Black, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure arbitrary-enforcement constitutional-vagueness discriminatory-enforcement due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment vagueness Is the undefined, non-specific, ambiguous language used in Ohio's App-R.26(B)(2)(c) that results in arbitrary, inconsistent, and discriminatory enforc…
23-7104 In Re Tonya Knowles Dismissed IFP 14th-amendment civil-liability civil-rights disqualifications fair-credit-reporting-act insurrection rebellion sovereign-immunity Does the civil-liability provisions of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. 1681 et seq., unequivocally and unambiguously 'Waive' Sovereign Immuni…
23-714 Bobby Len Franklin v. BWD Properties 2, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure concealment discovery discovery-concealment fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-misconduct land-patent officers-of-court patent-rights standing Did the named officers of the court perpetrate fraud to conceal petitioner's patent rights?
23-768 Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) federal-circuit innovation-standard ksr-international-co-v-teleflex KSR-precedent obviousness obviousness-standard patent patent-law predictable-results reasonable-expectation-of-success Whether obviousness requires a showing of 'predictable' results, as this Court held in KSR, or a mere 'reasonable expectation of success,' as the Fede…
23-776 Jeffrey B. Israelitt v. Enterprise Services LLC Fourth Circuit Denied ada-retaliation americans-with-disabilities-act anti-retaliation-provision circuit-split civil-rights damages due-process federal-law jury-trial standing Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act provides for damages (and therefore a trial by jury) in cases alleging that an employer has violated the A…
23-833 Zachary Greenberg v. Jerry Lehocky, in His Official Capacity as Board Chair of the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit Denied Amici (7) article-iii civil-rights complaint-amendment ethics-rule free-speech jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction mootness standing standing-inquiry time-of-filing-rule Does amending or supplementing a complaint to include new factual developments absolve the government of its burden to prove mootness?
23-852 Pamela Bondi, Attorney General, et al. v. Jennifer VanDerStok, et al. Fifth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (28)Relisted (2) 5th-circuit-decision administrative-law atf-regulation atf-regulations firearm-definition gun-control-act regulatory-compliance statutory-interpretation weapon-parts-kit Whether a weapon parts kit that is readily convertible into an operational firearm is a 'firearm' regulated by the Gun Control Act
23-883 Lawrence Wilson Kingsley v. Ann Elizabeth Lange Louisiana Denied access-to-courts appellate-procedure case-dismissal civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fraud judicial-intervention procedural-intervention standing Should this case be allowed to conflict with federal and state cases on nonparty intervention
23-885 Mark Wayne Gaddy v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied anonymous-phone-call anonymous-tip community-caretaking fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether the decision of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals is an unwarranted extension of the community caretaking function of Cady, and also in d…
23-894 Gregory O. Garmong v. Maupin, Cox & Legoy Ninth Circuit Denied 28-usc-1447c bankruptcy-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure federal-procedure martin-v-franklin-capital-corp remand-fees removal removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether the Ninth Circuit is employing a new and incorrect standard for remand fees under 28 U.S.C. § 1447(c)
23-897 Cidney Bowdean Ingram v. Fredeane Artis, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability due-process duty-to-retreat home-invasion ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions porch-as-part-of-home whether-a-certificate-of-appealability-should-be-issued
23-902 Richard Duncan v. City of Mentor, Ohio Ohio Denied administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedy civil-procedure concurrent-jurisdiction due-process fifth-amendment just-compensation mandamus-action property-taking state-court-procedure takings temporary-takings Whether the Ohio Supreme Court's newly established exhaustion of administrative remedy and ruling that 'if the court of common pleas had reversed the …
23-920 Brian Bowen, II v. Adidas America, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived antitrust civil-rights due-process labor labor-market market-dominance ncaa-eligibility professional-athletics property-interest property-rights student-athlete Do elite student-athletes preparing for professional athletic careers have a business or property interest in their NCAA eligibility?
23-923 Palani Karupaiyan v. Arnaud Vaissie, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure extraordinary-writs mandamus prohibition relief relief-sought standing test-condition writ-of-prohibition Whether the petitioners have satisfied the requirements for the extraordinary writs of mandamus, prohibition, or alternative relief
23-924 John Anthony Castro v. Adrian Fontes, Arizona Secretary of State, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived arizona-ballot article-iii article-iii-standing ballot-access campaign-expenses hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-discretion motion-to-amend presidential-candidate standing Does an Arizona ballot-placed Republican Presidential Candidate lack Article III standing if a lower court determines he is not 'genuinely' competing …
23-955 Robert M. Miller v. Martin J. Gruenberg, Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived 5-usc-7703 civil-service equitable-powers interim-relief mixed-case preliminary-injunction pro-se-litigant whistleblower Does the district court review a motion for interim relief under the standards for a preliminary injunction, under 5U.S.C. § 7703(c), or under the cou…
23M81 In Re William B. Jolley Presumed Complete None
23M82 Alfred Correa Dizon v. Vectrus Systems Corporation Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete None
23M83 Hector Manuel Gomez Rodriguez v. United States Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None