Conference: 2024-11-01

131 cases — 0 granted, 130 denied/dismissed, 1 pending

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Case Title Lower Court Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-1030 Mississippi District Council for Assemblies of God v. Kevin Beachy, et al. Mississippi Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) church-governance ecclesiastical-abstention ecclesiastical-authority first-amendment hierarchical-church intra-church-dispute jurisdictional-limits neutral-principles religious-freedom standing Whether the First Amendment deprives courts of jurisdiction to enforce the ecclesiastical decisions of religious authorities in an intra-church disput…
23-1257 Santos Argueta, et al. v. Derrick S. Jaradi Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights deadly-force factual-question qualified-immunity tennessee-v-garner use-of-force Whether the Fourth Amendment permits police to shoot a fleeing suspect who might be holding a gun but exhibits no other signs of dangerousness
23-1270 Pierre Yassue Nashun Riley v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General Fourth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (13)Relisted (2) board-of-immigration-appeals convention-against-torture immigration-law jurisdictional-deadline petition-for-review removal-proceedings Whether the 30-day deadline for filing a petition for review of a BIA decision in immigration proceedings is jurisdictional or a claims-processing rul…
23-167 John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Joseph Clifton Smith Eleventh Circuit GVR Amici (1)Relisted (30) atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability iq-test iq-testing standard-error-of-measurement Whether courts must deem the Atkins prong satisfied when an offender's lowest IQ score, decreased by one standard error of measurement, is 70 or below
24-108 John Paul Salvador v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (6) bankruptcy-code circuit-split discharge discharge-ability honest-and-reasonable-attempt income-tax-return late-filed-returns late-filing tax-debt tax-debts Whether a late but otherwise correctly filed Form 1040 is a 'return' for purposes of §523(a) of the Bankruptcy Code
24-110 Press Robinson, et al., Appellants v. Phillip Callais, et al. Louisiana Pending Relisted (3) None
24-16 Anthony Monroe v. Terry Conner, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-claims federal-interests owens-v-okure personal-injury section-1983 state-law-borrowing statute-of-limitations Whether applying a state's one-year statute of limitations to Section 1983 claims is inconsistent with the federal statutory scheme and the interests …
24-188 Menorah Mivtachim Insurance Ltd., et al. v. John D. Sheehan, et al. Second Circuit Denied appellate-review circuit-court claim-dismissal legal-reasoning loss-causation summary-judgment Whether the Second Circuit erred in affirming a summary judgment decision without providing reasons for dismissing key claims
24-192 Izhar Shefer v. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied arbitration due-process eleventh-circuit legal-doctrine manifest-disregard punitive-sanctions Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in holding that an arbitral panel's punitive and dispositive sanctions imposed in disregard of a party's due proces…
24-199 Aldo Ortega v. Tanya Ford, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourth-amendment psychological-detention warrant-clause Whether a warrant issued by the Department of Corrections for allegedly violating a non-existent mandatory supervised release agreement violates the F…
24-200 Hamett Diaz v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit Denied criminal-conviction due-process hearsay-testimony ineffective-assistance trial-counsel witness-testimony Whether the Third Circuit erred in failing to find that trial counsel provided ineffective assistance by not objecting to inadmissible hearsay testimo…
24-207 Carlos A. Alonso Cano, et al. v. 245 C & C, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied appellate-procedure civil-rights fraud-upon-court judicial-discretion pro-se-representation transcript-integrity Whether a federal court can prohibit pro se representation in a civil case when the plaintiff has demonstrated prior ability to represent themselves, …
24-210 In Re Palani Karupaiyan Denied administrative-law administrative-procedure judicial-review mandamus relief-sought writ-of-prohibition Whether mandamus or prohibition writs can be issued to compel specific administrative actions
24-219 In Re Warren Petersen, et al. Denied Amici (2)Response Waived constitutional-challenge high-ranking-officials legislative-intervention legislative-privilege morgan-doctrine state-law Whether legislative leaders waive legislative privilege and Morgan doctrine protections when intervening to defend a state law in a private civil cons…
24-222 Kathryn Dana Papp v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied constitutional-rights first-amendment harassment-law speech-criminalization state-supreme-court strict-scrutiny Whether the First Amendment permits the government to criminalize speech on the basis that the speaker intends to harass, annoy, or alarm
24-225 B. S. v. D. S. California Denied constitutional-rights domestic-violence-restraining-order due-process evidentiary-standard first-amendment fourteenth-amendment Does the preponderance of the evidence standard for Domestic Violence Restraining Orders in California violate due process under the Fourteenth Amendm…
24-228 Erik M. Underwood, et al. v. Bank of America Corporation Tenth Circuit Denied evidence-context mark-association online-services search-engine-results trademark-ownership website-identification Whether courts must consider all evidence in context when determining trademark ownership for online services and whether search engine result associa…
24-230 Kathleen Wright-Gottshall, et al. v. New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived bodily-integrity fourth-amendment government-employment medical-testing mootness qualified-immunity Whether mandated weekly Covid-19 medical testing for government employees violates Fourth Amendment rights and whether such testing is a clearly estab…
24-231 Rakesh Dhingra v. Charles Esposito, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-violation fact-finding federal-officials judicial-procedure Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in affirming the civil district court's dismissal of petitioner's civil complaint without conducting fact-f…
24-233 Johnmack Cohen v. Derek Smith Law Group, PLLC, et al. Second Circuit Denied attorney-conduct bad-faith civil-procedure inherent-powers rule-11 sanctions Whether a court can use the implicit Rule 11(b) certification of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that automatically attaches to all attorneys' pa…
24-236 Steve Campbell v. Tube-Mac Industries, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived co-inventor-rights federal-circuit patent-assignment patent-jurisdiction unclean-hands wipo-treaty Whether federal courts have jurisdiction to order patent co-inventors added to foreign patents under the WIPO Patent Cooperation Treaty and Federal Ci…
24-237 Gabriel N. Schwartz v. Beauvallon Condominium Association, Inc. Colorado Denied attorney-fees fair-housing-act homeowners-association mask-mandate medical-privacy reasonable-accommodation Whether an HOA may require intrusive medical record disclosure as a condition for a reasonable accommodation exemption from a mask mandate under the F…
24-240 W. J., By His Parents and Legal Guardians, R. J. and A. J. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived federal-claims-court jurisdictional-statute legal-disability statute-of-limitations tolling-provision vaccine-injury-compensation Whether the three-year tolling provision of 28 U.S.C. § 2501 applies to legally disabled petitioners who bring claims before the United States Court o…
24-245 Dennis M. Buckovetz v. Department of the Navy Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-transparency federal-records-disclosure freedom-of-information-act government-accountability judicial-standing mootness-doctrine Whether the Ninth Circuit improperly dismissed a FOIA request based on mootness and standing when the Navy failed to provide all responsive records
24-248 David John Thistle v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived article-v-amendment constitutional-rights due-process election-law federal-officers states-rights Will the Supreme Court allow alleged unconstitutional actions by federal and state officials that potentially violate constitutional rights and electi…
24-257 Harley Marine Services, Incorporated v. Conrad Shipyard, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived agency-authority appellate-review clearly-erroneous contract-interpretation corporate-liability fifth-circuit-ruling Whether the Fifth Circuit violated the fundamental principle of appellate review by affirming a trial court's ruling without evidentiary support for a…
24-258 Lindsey Gremont, et al. v. Jane Nelson, Texas Secretary of State, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived constitutional-rights election-integrity election-systems federal-interference injury-in-fact voter-privacy Whether voters' private rights are infringed when state actors fail to conduct elections according to law and whether the disclosure of a voter's priv…
24-265 Heidi Stirrup, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as a Member of the Board of Visitors for the Air Force Academy, et al. v. Department of Defense, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived administrative-law advisory-board-independence injunctive-relief mootness-doctrine presidential-removal-power separation-of-powers Whether the President may remove at will presidentially appointed members of independent advisory Boards and suspend their operations despite statutor…
24-288 Jonathan Zuhovitzky, et ux. v. UBS AG Che 101.329.562, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-court judicial-interpretation legal-causation proximate-cause rico-statute statutory-construction Whether the Second Circuit's interpretation of 'proximate cause' under RICO is unreasonably narrow and fails to honor the statute's breadth
24-295 Donald Herrington v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split criminal-procedure fifth-amendment right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver-of-counsel Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in holding that a criminal defendant can waive counsel without being fully informed of the charges, potential defense…
24-296 Kieran Ravi Bhattacharya v. James B. Murray, Jr., in His Official Capacity as Rector of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived academic-hearing disciplinary-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech seventh-amendment Was Bhattacharya deprived of his Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial when the district court and Fourth Circuit resolved disputed material facts i…
24-301 William French Anderson, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived business-expenses economic-espionage intellectual-property legal-deductibility sixth-amendment trade-secrets Whether attorney fees incurred in defending against a false criminal claim intended to steal intellectual property are deductible business expenses un…
24-303 Julian Javier Pimienta Dominguez v. Maria del Carmen Rendon Quijada Arizona Denied Response Waived domicile-requirements federal-preemption immigration-law nonimmigrant-visa territorial-jurisdiction visa-status Whether federal law precludes the holder of a TD nonimmigrant visa from establishing domicile in Arizona
24-310 Sean Michael McGuire v. Texas Texas Denied Response Waived exigent-circumstances felony-arrest fourth-amendment misdemeanor probable-cause warrantless-arrest Does the Fourth Amendment permit a police officer to make a warrantless arrest for a felony not committed in his presence where probable cause only ex…
24-317 Tommy Lee Benton v. South Carolina South Carolina Denied Response Waived double-jeopardy ends-of-justice judicial-discretion manifest-necessity mistrial-standard trial-court-discretion Whether a trial judge must consider all viable alternatives to a mistrial before finding manifest necessity exists
24-323 Thanquarious R. Calhoun v. Warden, Baldwin State Prison, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) de-novo-review fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-trial sixth-amendment Does a federal court's unconditional deference to a state supreme court's purported findings on an essential element of a crime violate a habeas petit…
24-325 Mark B. Gibson v. Mark Schroeder, Commissioner, New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, et al. New York Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review property-rights separation-of-powers Whether New York's driver license restoration regime violates due process by allowing the DMV to write, administer, and adjudicate its own rules witho…
24-328 Joseph Marion Rywelski v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights equal-footing-doctrine federal-jurisdiction governmental-regulation second-amendment territorial-law Whether the Supreme Court will resolve disputes regarding governmental regulation of citizens' Second Amendment rights across municipal, state, federa…
24-331 CBS MN Properties, LLC v. Hennepin County, Minnesota Minnesota Denied Response Waived eminent-domain fifth-amendment government-taking just-compensation property-rights real-property Whether a court has an independent duty to ensure just compensation exceeds $0 when the government takes a real property right and whether the Fifth A…
24-338 Troy A. Minter v. Alexander Falconi, et al. Nevada Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights divorce-proceedings family-court first-amendment public-access strict-scrutiny Whether a state statute permitting the closing of a hearing in a divorce case violates an implied First Amendment constitutional right of public acces…
24-341 Juan Carlos Emden, et al. v. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived act-of-state-doctrine federal-civil-procedure foreign-sovereign-immunity judicial-inference nazi-art-restitution rule-12(b)(6) Whether the Fifth Circuit's application of the act of state doctrine conflicts with precedent regarding adjudication of foreign sovereign acts and whe…
24-344 James T. Foster v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-review criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit federal-procedure obstruction-of-justice sentencing-guidelines Whether certiorari review should be granted where the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of Foster's objection to the enh…
24-349 San Carlos Apache Tribe v. Arizona, et al. Arizona Denied Amici (1)Response Waived administrative-law clean-water-act environmental-law mining-permit regulatory-interpretation water-pollution Did the Arizona Supreme Court err in its interpretation of new source performance standards for copper mine discharge permits by using a 'material con…
24-366 Austin Kyle Lee v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived apprendi-violation circuit-split constitutional-error due-process harmless-error sentencing-enhancement Whether Apprendi violations should be treated as trial errors or sentencing errors and whether Almendarez-Torres should be overruled
24-371 Troy Thomas York v. Arizona Arizona Denied Response Waived collateral-review constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance trial-counsel Does the Fourteenth Amendment confer the right to effective assistance of first collateral review counsel for ineffective assistance of trial counsel …
24-372 William Robert Taft v. Colorado Colorado Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure fourth-amendment probable-cause protective-sweep unreasonable-search warrant-requirement Whether the Colorado Court of Appeals reversibly erred by expanding the protective sweep exception to the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement beyond …
24-379 Larry D. Sapp v. Kimberly Foxx, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as State's Attorney of Cook County, Illinois Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived citizenship-forfeiture civil-death cruel-and-unusual-clause eighth-amendment punishment-disability res-judicata Whether Illinois's punishment disability statutes without time limits violate the Eighth Amendment's Cruel and Unusual Clause constituting a 'civil de…
24-383 For Our Rights, Inc., et al. v. David Y. Ige Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-U.S.C.-§-1983 constitutional-rights due-process emergency-powers qualified-immunity state-law-restrictions Does a state governor enjoy qualified immunity when imposing COVID-19 lockdowns and quarantines that allegedly violate citizens' clearly established c…
24-388 Kariann V. v. Maine Department of Health and Human Services Maine Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure judicial-discretion legal-review parental-rights procedural-due-process state-supreme-court Whether a state supreme court can deny an appeal without addressing all legal questions presented when statutorily required to do so
24-392 Argent Trust Company v. Ramon DeJesus Cedeno, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived arbitration-provision circuit-split erisa-claims federal-arbitration-act plan-participant statutory-interpretation Whether an ERISA plan participant can bring individual claims and be compelled to individual arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act
24-407 Bonnie Burkhardt v. Penney Azcarate, Chief Judge, Fairfax County Circuit Court Virginia Denied Response Waived common-law constitutional-rights criminal-activity grand-jury official-misconduct public-safety Does a citizen have a Constitutional and Common Law right to report evidence of felonious activity to the grand jury, especially when public safety of…
24-5018 Maureen McDermott v. Anissa De La Cruz, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-standard batson-challenge clearly-established-federal-law darden-v-wainwright death-penalty-review due-process ninth-circuit-review parker-v-matthews prosecutorial-misconduct Did the Ninth Circuit's denial of relief rest on a misapprehension of what constitutes clearly established federal law under this Court's decision in …
24-5166 Nicholas Joseph v. United States Second Circuit Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure impartial-jury newly-discovered-evidence sixth-amendment unconscious-bias voir-dire Whether a trial judge must voir dire on implicit or unconscious bias
24-5192 Matthew Nicholson v. Ohio Ohio Denied IFP arbitrariness constitutional-proportionality county-geography criminal-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment equal-protection geographic-disparity gregg-v-georgia sentencing-disparities Is Ohio's death penalty being arbitrarily applied in violation of Gregg v. Georgia, when geography dictates whether a defendant will be subject to the…
24-5258 Lance James Talbot v. United States Tenth Circuit GVR IFP 2nd-amendment bruen-standard civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-firearms-law gun-rights second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(c)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Mr. Talbot, in light of New York State R…
24-5308 Charles Grover Brant v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP capital-case certificate-of-appealability collateral-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard Whether a federal circuit court is patently wrong in denying a Certificate of Appealability in a capital case where a state habeas petitioner identifi…
24-5315 Kevin Deane Jones v. United States Eleventh Circuit GVR IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether a federal statute prohibiting firearm possession by individuals with prior felony convictions violates the Second Amendment
24-5328 Aaron Christopher Lindsey v. United States Eighth Circuit GVR IFP bruen-standard constitutional-challenge eighth-circuit felon-in-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional as applied to a specific defendant under recent Second Amendment jurisprudence
24-5391 Zavien Lenoy Canada v. United States Fourth Circuit GVR IFP constitutional-rights criminal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether a federal statute prohibiting firearm possession by individuals with prior felony convictions violates the Second Amendment's right to bear ar…
24-5396 Pedro Pablo Fuentes v. Steven Harpe Tenth Circuit Denied IFP collective-knowledge-doctrine detention fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether law enforcement can detain a suspect and conduct a K-9 search after issuing a traffic citation without additional probable cause or consent
24-5399 Bruce K. Florence, III v. Eric Flowers, Sheriff, Indian River County, Florida Florida Denied IFP certiorari-petition constitutional-provision judicial-review legal-issue statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction Question not identified.
24-5406 Michael Hoeft v. United States Eighth Circuit GVR IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) and (9) prohibiting firearm possession by certain convicted persons are facially unconstitutional under the Second Amend…
24-5407 Darnell Anderson v. Aaron Fuson, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bivens-doctrine constitutional-claim deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment federal-corrections summary-judgment Whether the Court of Appeals correctly applied the Bivens doctrine in evaluating an Eighth Amendment deliberate indifference claim against a federal c…
24-5412 Derrick Hills v. Richard A. Roble, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bad-faith civil-procedure federal-rules motion-for-relief rule-60b zoom-deposition Whether the district court properly denied a Rule 60(b) motion when insufficient evidence demonstrated bad faith in a Zoom deposition appearance
24-5415 Glen Earl Claiborne, Sr. v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights judicial-discretion meaningful-attorney-involvement pro-se summary-judgment wrongful-foreclosure Whether the District Court and Appeals Court committed reversible error and abuse of discretion in a pro se civil rights case involving alleged statut…
24-5417 Joshual Lamar Davis v. Ian Maxfield, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration-law statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24-5422 MalcolmX Johnson v. Wise Staffing Group Sixth Circuit Denied IFP employment-law equal-protection-clause intentional-discrimination racial-discrimination title-vii workforce-balance Whether a state employer's refusal to hire a person based on race while citing workforce racial balance concerns constitutes intentional racial discri…
24-5423 Cessaly Denise Hutchinson v. State Bar of California California Denied IFP civil-rights corporate-liability legal-ethics medical-malpractice racial-discrimination settlement-dispute Whether a mesothelioma plaintiff alleges corporate misconduct and legal malpractice involving racial targeting and settlement manipulation
24-5424 Bryan C. O'Rourke v. Carrie Bridges, Warden Oklahoma Denied IFP brady-violation criminal-statute due-process evidence-suppression judicial-interpretation prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the State of Oklahoma violated due process by suppressing material exculpatory evidence and retroactively applying an expanded judicial interp…
24-5426 Carl Dwayne Stevenson v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-law judicial-review legal-procedure statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24-5435 Orlando Sanchez v. Fidencio N. Guzman, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review trial-rights Question not identified.
24-5436 David Fink v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-of-appeal Should an appellant have a voice in their own appeal when the Court of Appeal appoints counsel who fails to raise substantial constitutional claims?
24-5439 Richard Beasley v. Ohio Ohio Denied IFP appellate-procedure capital-punishment constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defendant's due process rights are violated when a state supreme court dismisses a capital appeal and fails to appoint replacement …
24-5441 James A. Price v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-5443 Antoine D. Craig v. Illinois Illinois Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure judicial-review statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24-5444 Delano Medina v. Jennifer Murphy, et al. Tenth Circuit Dismissed IFP detention-challenge habeas-corpus judicial-remedy parole-eligibility section-1983 sentence-miscalculation Whether a prisoner challenging parole eligibility procedures and sentence miscalculation must pursue relief through habeas corpus or 42 U.S.C. § 1983
24-5445 Soren Richard Olsen, II v. Washington Washington Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-discretion Whether the lower court improperly applied prosecutorial discretion standards in denying post-conviction relief based on newly discovered evidence
24-5447 Wilbert Lee Nubine v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto parole-hearing statutory-interpretation Whether the retroactive application of Oklahoma's two-stage parole hearing process violates the Ex Post Facto Clause of the United States Constitution
24-5453 Thelonious Wayne Kirby v. United States Eleventh Circuit GVR IFP commerce-clause constitutional-law federal-firearms-regulation felony-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) facially violates the Second Amendment and exceeds Congress's Commerce Clause power
24-5458 Derrick Courchaine v. California California Denied IFP constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining procedural-bar sixth-amendment unauthorized-sentence Whether the Sixth Amendment requires advisement of an unauthorized sentence during plea negotiations and whether procedural bars should be precluded f…
24-5461 Ronald Ragan, Jr. v. Berkshire Hathaway Automotive, Inc. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation copyright-law copyright-protection eighth-circuit feist-decision originality-standard Whether the correct standard of copyrightability is the Constitutional and statutory standard of originality as articulated in Feist or the Eighth Cir…
24-5465 William Orren Dawes v. California California Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process evidence judicial-process legal-procedure Question not identified.
24-5466 Jarell Davis Terry v. William Straughn, Deputy Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force pro-se-prisoner Whether the use of force against a handcuffed and compliant individual violates constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment
24-5467 Joseph Miller v. Dan Redington Eighth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony Whether the prosecution's failure to disclose exculpatory evidence violated the respondent's due process rights and constitutional protections
24-5468 Dennis L. Flint v. Florida Florida Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy precedent resentencing sentence-enhancement Whether a sentence can be enhanced during resentencing without violating double jeopardy principles
24-5477 Gustavo D. Velez-Hernandez v. District Attorney of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-5478 Rifat Shafique v. Equity Residential Management, LLC District of Columbia Denied IFP civil-death constitutional-rights due-process ejectment-dispute judicial-access property-rights Whether forced removal from a residence constitutes a de facto capital case due to significant deprivation of court access and constitutional rights
24-5485 Onofre Serrano v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP critical-stage due-process harmless-error ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel waiver-of-counsel Whether a reasonable jurist could debate the voluntariness of a criminal defendant's waiver of counsel and the potential ineffective assistance of cou…
24-5488 Brandon Lee Mayfield v. United States Tenth Circuit GVR IFP criminal-conviction gun-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tenth-circuit Whether Mr. Mayfield's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol…
24-5527 Adrian Mahdee Akram v. James Corrigan, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP alibi-defense constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard trial-counsel Whether Adrian Akram's conviction violated his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel under Strickland v. Washington by failing to c…
24-5528 Terrace Tyrone Perkins, Sr. v. Nicholas Lamb, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights eighth-circuit impartial-jury pretrial-identification Whether a circuit court can deny a certificate of appealability when the Applicant has made a substantial showing of the denial of important constitut…
24-5531 Frederick Foster v. Joel H. Slomsky, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction postal-accountability procedural-law sovereign-immunity Whether 39 U.S.C. §409(d) & (e) waive sovereign immunity for judicial officers and federal agencies acting on behalf of the USPS in violation of feder…
24-5534 Anthony Wayne Hawkins v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause cooperating-witness due-process law-enforcement-database pretextual-stop witness-bias Whether the Confrontation Clause permits cross-examination of a cooperating witness regarding the extent of benefits received and whether due process …
24-5541 In Re Joe Nathan Pyatt, Jr. Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act clerk-of-court judicial-review mandamus non-discretionary-act supreme-court-procedure Whether the Supreme Court has authority to issue a Writ of Mandamus under the All Writs Act to compel its own Clerk to perform a non-discretionary act
24-5592 Deshawn Andrew Boylan v. Michael Burgess, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-estoppel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing-findings sixth-circuit trial-counsel Whether the Sixth Circuit erroneously reversed the District Court's grant of habeas relief based on trial counsel's ineffective assistance in failing …
24-5597 Justin Andre Lamoureux v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony statutory-provisions Question not identified.
24-5602 Raymond Christian v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-statements criminal-confession federal-evidence-rule hearsay-exception non-testifying-declarant statement-against-penal-interest Does Williamson v. United States permit a lower court to admit collateral statements in a non-testifying declarant's confession as providing 'context'…
24-5610 Harold U. McGhee v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure franks-motion gps-tracker sixth-amendment warrant-affidavit Whether the District Court committed procedural and substantive errors in denying the Franks Motion and related legal challenges
24-5616 Craig Bernard Kerry v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP competency-examination ineffective-assistance mental-health-issues petition-timeliness trial-court-error Whether the trial court erred by determining that Mr. Kerry's petition was untimely and whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to request a…
24-5620 Salvador Salas, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP carpenter-v-united-states container-search digital-privacy fourth-amendment riley-v-california search-and-seizure Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits application of the 'container search' doctrine to digital storage devices
24-5621 Christopher Dallas Nelson v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review clear-error-standard federal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether varied definitions of the clear error standard of review for Federal Sentencing Guidelines are permissible
24-5623 Tahjair Dorsey v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution firearm-disqualification non-violent-felony second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the Second Amendment permits permanent disarmament under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) for an individual with a single non-violent felony conviction r…
24-5624 Omar Jorge Valle Estrada v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP court-procedure federal-appeals fifth-circuit judicial-review sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24-5625 Sheng-Wen Cheng v. Steve Kallis, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP alien-prisoners bureau-of-prisons due-process equal-protection removal-policy residential-reentry-center Does the Bureau of Prisons' policy barring federal alien prisoners with a final order of removal from Residential Reentry Center eligibility violate t…
24-5626 Julio Reynaldo Rivera v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-sanctions federal-prosecution interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2251 authorizes conviction based on interstate materials movement in child pornography cases and whether Congress can impose crimi…
24-5628 Angel Landa-Arevalo v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP competency constitutional-rights mental-health pre-trial-detention sixth-amendment speedy-trial Was Petitioner's right to a speedy trial violated under the Sixth Amendment and should the trial judge have ordered a mental health evaluation given t…
24-5638 Kareem Swinton v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP co-conspirator-statements constitutional-rights federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment hearsay-testimony sixth-amendment Whether the admission of hearsay testimony from unidentified co-conspirators without knowledge of their identity violates constitutional rights
24-5639 Isaac Joel Chavez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-statute federal-law gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) is constitutional under the Second Amendment
24-5640 Mark Watkins v. New York New York Denied Response WaivedIFP deficient-performance ineffective-assistance prejudice-analysis reasonable-probability strickland-standard trial-counsel Whether a single error by trial counsel must satisfy Strickland's deficient-performance and reasonable-probability-prejudice standards or a heightened…
24-5644 Jose Moreno v. Jim Robinson Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa-statute constitutional-error effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus legal-innocence Whether the actual-innocence exception to AEDPA's statute of limitations applies to legal or statutory innocence when an individual is convicted under…
24-5647 David Rashaun Hamil, Jr. v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment social-science Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12 person jury when the defendant is charged w…
24-5650 Roberto Yepez v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split compassionate-release federal-criminal-procedure sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether the compassionate-release statute in 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1) permits reducing supervised release across different circuit court interpretations
24-5664 Christian Pabon v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction due-process enterprise-membership legal-sufficiency murder-in-aid racketeering-conspiracy Whether the evidence was legally insufficient to establish enterprise membership and whether a rational fact finder could have found the petitioner gu…
24-5672 Mark Leon Andrews v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-court-review criminal-history prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in determining the scope of prior convictions under the Armed Career Criminal Act
24-5674 Gilbert Carrasco v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law judicial-interpretation legal-jurisdiction supreme-court-procedure Question not identified.
24-5677 Kelly Daniel Bass v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights courtroom-closure criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel speedy-trial Whether criminal defendants are required to prove prejudice for an ineffective assistance of counsel claim where counsel is absent during a critical s…
24-5683 Ronald Champney v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach crime-of-violence hobbs-act section-924c third-circuit-court In light of the holding in United States v. Taylor that attempted Hobbs Act robbery does not qualify as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)…
24-5684 Raunel Garcia-Suarez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial statutory-maximum Whether all facts that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either admitted by the defendant or proven to a …
24-5688 In Re Eric Sutherland Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional-provisions due-process federal-regulatory jurisdictional-issue statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24-5695 Deandre Johnson v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing Whether the Supreme Court should review the lower court's opinion regarding constitutional claims related to sentencing and criminal procedure
24-5699 Susan Lloyd v. Facebook, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP alter-ego data-privacy negligence public-accommodation section-230 website-accessibility Whether websites constitute places of public accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act and whether social media platforms can be held li…
24-5712 John Doe v. Securities and Exchange Commission District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-procedures-act dodd-frank-act due-process enforcement-action judicial-review sec-whistleblower Whether the SEC's denial of a whistleblower award violates the Dodd-Frank Act, Administrative Procedures Act, and due process clause in light of recen…
24-5721 Ryan Lawrence Anthony v. Josh Highberger, Superintendent, Oregon State Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus serial-killer-confession Did the state court contravene Chambers and Holmes by excluding serial killer Smith's confession and condemning an innocent man to the fate of dying i…
24-5730 In Re Carlos Martinez Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review three-strikes-law Whether the California Three Strikes Law's sentencing provisions violate due process when applied to a defendant with prior convictions that may be co…
24-5746 In Re Trey Tarell Bradley Denied IFP constitutional-challenge court-appointed-counsel due-process habeas-corpus self-representation state-court-procedure Can a State summarily deny a defendant's right to self-representation and subsequently bar a constitutional challenge to such because of the defendant…
24-92 Kwok Sum Wong v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Second Circuit GVR None
24A244 Richard Rynn v. First Transit Incorporated., et al. Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-rights pro-se rule-60 workplace-injunction Whether a pro se litigant can challenge a workplace injunction under Rule 60(b) based on alleged constitutional rights violations and procedural irreg…
24A273 Martin Akerman v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company Seventh Circuit Presumed Complete certiorari injunction insurance-dispute pro-se service-of-process supreme-court Whether a pro se litigant can obtain an emergency injunction against a private insurance company to prevent potential financial harm while a certiorar…
24M31 Robert Timothy Blake v. United States Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete None
24M32 John Doe v. United States Fourth Circuit Presumed Complete Relisted (2) None
24M33 Israel Montemayor v. Illinois Dep't of Healthcare and Family Services, et al. Illinois Presumed Complete None