Conference: 2024-10-18

69 cases — 0 granted, 69 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

← All conferences

Case Title Lower Court Status Flags Tags Question Presented Score
23-1323 Consumers' Research, et al. v. Consumer Product Safety Commission Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (11)Relisted (3) administrative-agencies administrative-law agency-structure article-ii civil-procedure constitutional-law executive-power executive-removal humphreys-executor presidential-authority separation-of-powers Whether the for-cause restriction on the President's authority to remove Commissioners of the Consumer Product Safety Commission violates the separati… 22.5
23-1067 Oklahoma, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. Tenth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (4)Relisted (4) circuit-split clean-air-act d-c-circuit epa-action epa-authority federal-register judicial-review regional-circuit state-implementation-plan Whether a final action by EPA taken pursuant to its Clean Air Act authority with respect to a single state or region may be challenged only in the D.C… 16.0
23-1229 Environmental Protection Agency v. Calumet Shreveport Refining, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (6)Response WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-law circuit-court-review clean-air-act environmental-law epa-administrative-action jurisdiction renewable-fuel-standard statutory-interpretation venue venue-jurisdiction Whether venue for the refineries' challenges lies exclusively in the D.C. Circuit because the agency's denial actions are "nationally applicable" or, … 15.5
23-1353 Kansas, et al. v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (4) administrative-procedure-act administrative-procedure-act-rule-making collusive-settlements federal-government federal-government-defense intervention litigation-strategy ninth-circuit standing sue-and-settle Did the Ninth Circuit err when it denied States with sufficient interests the ability to intervene as defendants after the federal government stopped … 14.5
23-1282 John C. Baer v. Larry Trent Roberts, et al. Third Circuit Denied Amici (3)Relisted (2) buckley-v-fitzsimmons circuit-conflict civil-rights due-process evidence-marshaling prosecutorial-immunity qualified-immunity section-1983 1. Whether prosecutors are always absolutely immune from 42 U.S.C. § 1983 liability for (1) post-charge acts (2) taken to marshal evidence to present … 14.0
23-1068 PacifiCorp, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. Tenth Circuit Judgment Issued Relisted (4) administrative-law circuit-court-jurisdiction clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-disapproval federal-jurisdiction judicial-review standing state-implementation-plan Whether the Environmental Protection Agency's disapproval of a State Implementation Plan may only be challenged in the D.C. Circuit under 42 U.S.C. § … 12.0
23-1301 Ben Brinkmann, et al. v. Town of Southold, New York Second Circuit Denied Amici (5)Relisted (3) bad-faith bad-faith-taking constitutional-protection pretext property-rights public-use section-1983 state-federal-split takings-clause The Second Circuit, in a 2-1 decision over a dissent by Judge Menashi, held that the Public Use Clause does not prohibit taking property when the asse… 11.5
23-1310 Dean Gross v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Amici (1) criminal-custody criminal-law criminal-procedure custody federal-courts federal-escape-statute federal-statutes halfway-house statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit Whether or under what circumstances a criminal defendant released to a halfway house is in "custody" and therefore can commit the crime of escape. 11.5
24-37 Lorenzo Garod Pierre v. United States Eleventh Circuit GVR 2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-laws federal-law second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether a criminal defendant may raise an as-applied Second Amendment challenge to 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1). 10.5
23-1326 Row 1 Inc., dba Regenative Labs v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. District of Columbia Denied Amici (1) administrative-appeals administrative-law cms-policies cms-policy federal-question-jurisdiction judicial-review medical-products-manufacturer medicare-act-42-usc-1395ii medicare-administrative-appeals notice-and-comment statutory-interpretation Whether 42 U.S.C. 405(h), incorporated into the Medicare Act by 42 U.S.C. 1395ii, prohibits a medical products manufacturer who cannot pursue the Medi… 6.5
24-41 Michael D. Cohen v. Donald J. Trump, former President of the United States, et al. Second Circuit Denied Amici (1) bivens-action bivens-claims civil-liberties constitutional-rights first-amendment first-amendment-rights free-speech habeas-corpus retaliation retaliatory-imprisonment Petitioner, Michael Cohen, was eligible for release from federal prison to home confinement for health reasons. But Respondents conditioned his rele… 6.5
23-7483 Edgardo Esteras v. United States Sixth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3583 circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release Even though Congress excluded section 3553(a)(2)(A) from section 3583(e)'s list of factors to consider when revoking supervised release, may a distric… 6.0
24M29 A. M. B., et al. v. Kelly J. McKnight, Presiding Judge, Circuit Court of Wisconsin, Ashland County Wisconsin Presumed Complete Relisted (2) None 6.0
23-1321 Jeffrey Batio v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied criminal-intent fraudulent-intent good-faith good-faith-defense jury-instruction jury-instructions mail-fraud misrepresentation misrepresentations wire-fraud Proving federal mail or wire fraud requires proving a defendant's specific intent to defraud. A defendant's good faith that his representations are tr… 5.5
24-166 In Re Mawule Tepe Denied due-process federal-bar-admission judicial-conflict-of-interest judicial-recusal oath-of-office sixth-amendment Under the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment, it is well established that: (i) a Judge who lacks an Oath of Office cannot preside over a case; … 5.5
24-167 Tim Makoto Nukida v. California California Denied criminal-procedure cruel-unusual-punishment csaas-testimony due-process eighth-amendment expert-witness 1. State courts of last resort are intractably divided over the admissibility of Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome (CSAAS). Should certiorari … 5.5
24-168 Usha Jain, et vir v. Donald Myers, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied due-process federal-removal jurisdictional-transfer remand-order statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether an endorsed remand order on a new subsequent federal removal case with new ground filed under 28 U.S.C. § 1443, without issuance of a certifie… 5.5
24-169 Lisa Leake, et al. v. Raytheon Technologies Corporation Ninth Circuit Denied None At the motion to dismiss phase of a proceeding for claims brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act: 1. Must a group of plaintiffs who demonstr… 5.5
24-176 Richard William Douglas, Jr., et al. v. William Joseph Kalanta, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied court-procedure death-investigation organized-crime police-misconduct rico-violations statutory-standing 1. Whether Modesto Police can ignore witnesses in a very suspicious death investigation and lose crucial evidence of the murder in the first degree wh… 5.5
24-177 Alison Gershenson v. Elizabet Da Silva Florida Denied appellate-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment per-curiam-decision summary-judgment 1. Whether Florida's rules of appellate procedure which provide for the issuance by the Court of Appeals of a per curiam decision, without an opinion,… 5.5
24-195 Bensam Swakeen v. Mary S. Pandian, et al. Second Circuit Denied bankruptcy-fraud bankruptcy-procedure due-process financial-disclosure judicial-misconduct summary-judgment 1. Sufficient time not provided for opposition to summary judgment 2. Trustee 's office failed to provide personal documents on record 3. Counsel did … 5.5
24M30 Sealed Appellant v. United States Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None 5.5
24-190 Terri L. Stiles, et al. v. John Clifford, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived due-process extrinsic-fraud permanent-injunction rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgment subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether a court may selectively apply the Rooker-Feldman doctrine to preclude federal subject matter jurisdiction by excluding from consideration a… 3.5
24-215 Jamus Bryant v. Bonnie Heather McLean, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived due-process fundamental-parental-rights jurisdiction-fraud national-security-act subject-matter-jurisdiction younger-abstention 1. Whether the Tenth Circuit District Court and the Federal Appeals Court failed to address the specific and substantial allegation that the state cou… 3.5
24-238 Charles K. Breland, Jr. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived bankruptcy-court consent-order iRS-claims res-judicata tax-assessment tax-liability In the Petitioner's Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding, the IRS filed multiple proofs of claim asserting that Petitioner owed federal income tax for yea… 3.5
24-254 Gordon Wood v. Winnebago Industries, Inc. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived consumer-protection consumer-rights statutory-interpretation warranty-act warranty-obligations warranty-representative 1. Does a warrantor remain liable for its warranty obligations when it designates a representative pursuant to 15 U.S.C. § 2307 to fulfill those oblig… 3.5
24-266 Calisia Kelley and Johnnie Mae Kelley, Co-Administrators of the Estate of Bruce Kelley, Jr. v. Brian O'Malley and Dominic Rivotti, in Their Individual Capacities as Police Officers for the Allegheny County Port Authority Third Circuit Denied Response Waived deadly-force factual-context graham-connor qualified-immunity tolan-cotton use-of-force I. In this deadly force case, the Third Circuit removed altogether from its definition of the 'specific factual context' of this case the Autopsy Repo… 3.5
24-271 Jerry Arnold Westrom v. Minnesota Minnesota Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment reasonable-expectation-of-privacy shed-dna sixth-amendment A. Whether society is prepared to recognize a reasonable expectation of privacy under the Fourth Amendment in an individual's shed DNA, as evidenced b… 3.5
24-278 Ryan K. Jones, et ux. v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-authority due-process interstate-commerce iRS-discretion takings-clause tax-collection-powers 1. Whether this Court should overrule United States v. Thompson, and all of the cases which followed it, which relied on its declaration of inherent (… 3.5
24-280 Kevin Cichowski, et al. v. Andrea K. Totten, Judge, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived ada-compliance electronic-notification first-amendment judicial-immunity pro-se-representation state-bar-restrictions A pro se can conduct their own case under 28 U.S.C. § 1654, however, because the practice of law is ill defined, and often varies from venue to venue,… 3.5
24-307 Kirsti Parde v. Service Employees International Union, Local 721, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-injury due-process first-amendment payroll-deduction state-action union-dues 1) Whether, to properly plead a procedural due process claim under the Fourteenth Amendment, a plaintiff must allege a government actor had actual or … 3.5
24-308 Vishrut Amin, et ux. v. Carla R. Pepperman, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as County Judge for Lake County, Florida Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-USC-1983 article-iii constitutional-rights due-process judicial-immunity remote-hearing Petitioners were unlawfully prevented from physically appearing in to court against their will by Judge Carla R Pepperman (Pepperman). Petitioners wer… 3.5
24-324 Christina Paylan v. Florida Florida Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure constitutional-infirmity due-process fair-trial judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics This petition exposes the vacuum in Florida's appellate judicial disqualification mechanism that creates a constitutional infirmity for all Floridians… 3.5
23-7150 Elana Gordon v. Massachusetts Massachusetts GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial expert-testimony expert-witness forensic-evidence forensic-testimony right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel 1. Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment permits the prosecution in a criminal trial to present testimony by a substitute forensic e… 0.0
23-7783 Joseph James Conkling v. Kansas Kansas Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apprendi-precedent apprendi-rule blakely-rule blakely-v-washington criminal-sentencing fact-finding jury-determination jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment unpled-facts Does this Court's decision in Blakely v. Washington, 542 U.S. 296 (2004) establish an "unpled but admitted facts" exception to the rule set forth in A… -1.0
24-5599 David Martins v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-knowledge drug-prosecution federal-sentencing mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether, in a 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) prosecution, the knowingly mens rea contained in section 841(a)(1) also requires the government to prove that the … -1.5
23-5580 Richard Barroso v. Texas Texas Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights disability-accommodations disability-rights due-process equal-protection prison-litigation-reform-act rehabilitation-act ONE. At what point has petitioner had a Constitutionally protected right to DUE PROCESS of his numerous requests for EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAWS , RE… -4.0
24-5323 Muhidin Salad Omar v. John C. Gardner Fourth Circuit Denied IFP attorney-misconduct constitutional-rights criminal-defense habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-malpractice Question not identified. -4.5
24-5344 Jose Adolpho Castillo v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP circuit-split cumulative-error habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel strickland-standard van-arsdall-factors 1. Whether this Court's holding in Strickland v. Washington , 466 U.S. 668 (1984), requires reviewing courts to consider the cumulative effect of cou… -4.5
24-5345 Benjamin-Macon Bell, Jr. v. South Carolina Department of Social Services, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights-violation contract-law federal-question-jurisdiction judicial-immunity state-court-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Does a State Judge have authority to preside over a case when He/She has a conflict of interest? Does absolute immunity apply when a iudae has acte… -4.5
24-5346 In Re Jeremy Dewayne Foster Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process exculpatory-evidence post-conviction-relief Question not identified. -4.5
24-5349 Ryan Monroe Allen v. Tennessee Tennessee Denied IFP criminal-procedure faretta-hearing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-representation sixth-amendment-rights trial-court-discretion I. HAVE THE TENNESSEE CRIMINAL COURT OF APPEALS DECIDED AN IMPORTANT FEDERAL QUESTION IN A WAY THAT CONFLICTS WITH RELEVANT DECISIONS OF THE UNITED … -4.5
24-5354 Angel L. Ruiz v. City of New York Police Department Second Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-provision court-filing jurisdictional-issue legal-document procedural-matter scotus-petition Question not identified. -4.5
24-5364 Jose Rojas-Meliton v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP attorney-abandonment fifth-circuit-review habeas-corpus jurisdictional-motion maples-v-thomas rule-60b-motion 1. Within his Rule 4(a) motion to reopen the appeal, Petitioner argued for the Court to construe his untimely pro se notice of appeal as a motion to … -4.5
24-5367 Khadijah A. Muhammad Kebe v. Washington Township School District, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-aid pro-se-litigant systemic-disadvantage 1. Whether the lack of provision of legal aid to pro se litigants in civil cases violates the equal protection rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth Am… -4.5
24-5370 Michael Deangelo Lowery v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP court-of-appeals federal-court judgment petition writ-of-certiorari Question not identified. -4.5
24-5373 Raymond Rodriguez v. California California Denied IFP constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining procedural-bar sixth-amendment unauthorized-sentence (1. In California, a pretrial detainee is denied access to the very laws that are the cause of his or her confinement, and must rely upon his or her a… -4.5
24-5617 In Re Kesean Calvin Wilson Denied IFP bank-robbery constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment state-power WAS KESEAN WILSON DENIED HIS FOURTEENTH AMEND. RIGHTS TO EQUAL PROTECTION AND SUBSTANTIVE DUE PROCESS, SINCE HE WAS SIMILARLY SITUATED TO AN INDIVIDUA… -4.5
24-5657 In Re Charles Kafeiti Denied IFP constitutional-rights court-access due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-detention Can lower courts, delay and deny access to Habeas Corpus, and maintain Constitutional adherence's to such relief? 2) Can a Person break the law, when… -4.5
24-5352 Spencer Farwell v. Fountains at Tidwell Limited, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-access due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-litigant judicial-recommendation 1. Whether the District Court's adoption of the Magistrate Judge's recommendation, despite the absence of consent from either party, constitutes a vio… -6.5
24-5358 James Andrew Metcalf v. GEO Group, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights court-access covid-19-restrictions prisoners-rights pro-se-filing summary-judgment Are prisoners' Constitutional Rights to access the Courts violated when the institutional law library is closed in response to COVID-19 protocols, lea… -6.5
24-5360 Esteban Hernandez v. Ronald Oliver, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions court-procedure judicial-review legal-jurisdiction statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari Question not identified. -6.5
24-5384 Carlton Eugene Hooker, Jr. v. Kevin T. Hanretta, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure case-dismissal civil-rights court-remand judicial-discretion procedural-error 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals abused its discretion on Denying the Appellant 's motion for entry of judgment by remanding the fol… -6.5
24-5385 Marc Anthony Colon v. Nethanjah Breitenbach, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit trial-counsel witness-preparation Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying a Certificate of Appealability ( "COA ") consistent with the standards set by 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c… -6.5
24-5420 Jerry E. Russell, Sr. v. Indiana Indiana Denied Response WaivedIFP atkins-v-virginia criminal-punishment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability life-without-parole sentencing Should the Eighth Amendment prohibition, against sentencing intellectually disabled individuals to death, announced in Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 30… -6.5
24-5464 Jeromy Schiedenhelm v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency ineffective-assistance trial-counsel QUESTION ONE. IF TRIAL COUNSEL FAILS TO, AND REFUSES A DEFENDANTS REPEATED DEMANDS TO FILE A MOTION TO SUPPRESS AND MAKE THE PROPER FOURTH AMENDMENT C… -6.5
24-5479 Nathan Steward v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce prior-conviction second-amendment (1) Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)—the statute that prohibits firearm possession by any person who was previously convicted of "a crime punishable by i… -6.5
24-5484 Irvin Abreu v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split divisibility modified-categorical-approach sentencing-enhancement state-law-interpretation The First Circuit affirmed application of a sentencing enhancement under 18 U.S.C. § 2251(e), based on Petitioner Irvin Abreu's prior state-court conv… -6.5
24-5498 Lenore Luann Albert v. State Bar of California California Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-discipline disbarment due-process federal-court-practice fourteenth-amendment state-bar-regulation Whether California State Bar can regulate the practice of law in federal court. Specifically, whether California's disbarment of petitioner fell belo… -6.5
24-5509 James Rashad Clay v. Roy Odum, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP chain-of-custody constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process forensic-evidence witness-testimony I. Who was the November 11, 2013 gunshot residue report under Division of Forensic Sciences Case# 2013-10 4511 by Georgia Bureau of Investigation exam… -6.5
24-5526 Terry Dean Birts v. Arkansas Arkansas Denied Response WaivedIFP campaign-finance constitutional-rights donation-regulation first-amendment free-speech political-speech 1) Did the Court of Appeals err in its decision dated May 2025 denying petitioner's petition for Writ of Certiorari under the strict construction? 2)… -6.5
24-5568 Steven Gantt v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-dismissal certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction rule-60b section-2255 1.) Whether attorney's decision to dismiss §2255 motion without prisoner's consent would provide valid grounds for Rule 60(b) relief? 2.) Whether the… -6.5
24-5588 Deven L. Smith v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion career-offender criminal-history downward-departure sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines QUESTION NO. I: Whether the Sixth Circuit 's decision affirming the judgment of the district court was error, where one of Defendant-Appellant 's pre… -6.5
24-5591 Guy Benjamin Bowman v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-bias structural-error trial-procedure voir-dire Whether the trial court's refusal to ask of the all-White venire defendant's voir dire questions on racial bias, deprivation of the defendant of the c… -6.5
24-5595 David Tran v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea plea-withdrawal voluntariness If a guilty plea was not entered into knowingly and voluntarily, may it be withdrawn under without inquiry into other factors? -6.5
24-5596 Oren Snowden v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP compassionate-release district-court-discretion kidney-disease medical-conditions prisoner-rights sentencing 1. Did the district court abuse its discretion in denying Oren Snowden motion for compassionate release when Oren Snowden suffered from and continues … -6.5
24-5600 Abimael Narvaez-Rosa v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure first-circuit incarceration-term judicial-breach plea-agreement sentencing-error Whether the United States court of Appeals for the First Circuit erred in rejecting Narvaez-Rosa's claim of a procedural sentencing error, when the Un… -6.5
24-5611 Sadick Edusei Kissi v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review article-three constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-power non-precedential-decisions 1. Whether federal courts of appeals exceed the "judicial power" assigned under Article III of the Constitution when they issue non-precedential decis… -6.5
24-5614 Hussein Kadhim Abood Khalaf v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP deportation-consequences immigration-law ineffective-assistance moral-turpitude padilla-standard plea-bargain 1. When deportation consequences posed by a criminal charge are not clear, do attorneys render ineffective assistance by telling an indigent client th… -6.5