Conference: 2024-12-06

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

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23-1137 Boston Parent Coalition for Academic Excellence Corp. v. The School Committee for the City of Boston, et al. First Circuit Denied Amici (8)Relisted (8) boston-school-committee disparate-impact equal-protection exam-schools intentional-discrimination race-neutral-criteria racial-balancing school-admissions Whether an equal protection challenge to facially race-neutral admission criteria is barred simply because members of the racial groups targeted for d…
23-1211 E. Thomas Scarborough, III v. Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Northampton County, et al. Third Circuit Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process expedited-discovery federal-claims fraud judicial-notice prima-facie-evidence rule-60-motion standing void-order Whether the Court below misconstrues Petitioner's principal cause of action?
23-1277 PPI Enterprises, LLC v. Town of Windham, New Hampshire New Hampshire Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process final-decision government-action land-development land-use permit-denial property-rights regulatory-takings ripeness-doctrine takings Are two final denials of development applications sufficient to ripen a regulatory takings claim, where the government asserts that it might grant a t…
23-1280 Parents Protecting Our Children, UA v. Eau Claire Area School District, Wisconsin, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Amici (15)Relisted (8) civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process gender-identity parental-rights school-district-policy school-policy standing standing-doctrine student-privacy Do parents have standing to challenge a school district policy that usurps parental decision-making authority over a child's gender identity and keeps…
23-1345 Danny Richard Rivers v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (17)Response RequestedRelisted (4) 28-usc-2244(b)(2) appellate-review circuit-split federal-habeas federal-statute gatekeeping-requirements habeas-corpus second-or-successive-habeas second-or-successive-petition seven-factor-test Whether § 2244(b)(2) applies to second-in-time habeas filings
23-6450 Alfred Correa Dizon v. Vectrus Systems Corporation Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (5)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-exclusion fair-trial judicial-bias pro-se pro-se-litigant standing Whether the lower court and defense counsel violated federal rules of civil procedure, due process, and the appellant's constitutional rights
23-7435 Mariette Harris v. Miles W. Ellis, et al. Alabama Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alabama-law burden-of-proof civil-procedure discovery-rule statute-of-limitations summary-judgment Whether petitioner Mis. Harris filed on time for the Alabama Discovery rule section 6-5-482(a) Ala code 1975 the six-month discovery rule
23-7444 In Re Carolyn J. Florimonte Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process eminent-domain flooding government-trespass just-compensation property property-rights takings takings-clause Is twenty-four (24) years enough time for Petitioner to wait for the right to control her own Property, which never comes?
23-7487 Basil Uzoma Onyido v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP None
23-7517 Christopher L. Wilson v. Hawaii Hawaii Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9)IFP 2nd-amendment bruen-test civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process licensing-scheme second-amendment self-defense standing supremacy-clause Whether the Bruen test determines when a State's criminal prosecution for carrying a handgun without a license violates the Second Amendment?
23-7570 Leonard Blackstock, Jr. v. Tennessee Tennessee Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-duty physical-harm statutory-interpretation Whether a legal authority is required to help the escape from physical harm by Section 1 for 15 U.S. Code s. 1116 to provide equal protection of the F…
23-7657 Leslie Willis v. PNC Financial Services Group Inc., et al. Third Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP due-process due-process,14th-amendment,judicial-misconduct,bia equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-disqualification judicial-misconduct lgbtq-rights Ongoing violation of Fourteenth Amendment due process rights,judicial-misconduct,bias-and-prejudice,disqualification,perpetuation-of-evidence,trust-do…
23-7720 Patsy N. Sakuma v. Association of Apartment Owners of the Tropics of Waikele, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights cross-appeal cross-appeal-rules due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-exception rico-merits rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine summary-judgment Whether 42 U.S.C. Sections 1985(2),(3) and a new Rooker-Feldman exception that exists also under Lance v. Dennis are jurisdictional exceptions to the …
23-7785 Jared Pierce Sanchez v. Brown University, et al. First Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP academic-exclusion civil-rights covid-19-mandate equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise public-hospitals religious-discrimination Whether the First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights of the plaintiff were violated due to religious discrimination, harassment, and academic e…
24-100 Doug Dyson v. Tiffany Deakins, Whitley County Auditor, et al. Indiana Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure common-law constitutional-rights due-process enabling-act fifth-amendment judicial-proceeding property-ownership property-rights takings tax-identification Whether the trial court violated the organic law and constitutional provisions to supplant its orders superseding my rights to a judicial proceeding a…
24-103 Sabino Zuniga-Ayala v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Fifth Circuit Denied None
24-109 Louisiana, Appellant v. Phillip Callais, et al. Louisiana Pending Amici (3)Relisted (4) None
24-118 Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America v. Alan McClain, in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of the Arkansas Insurance Department, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Amici (1) 340b-drug-pricing-program administrative-enforcement administrative-law contract-pharmacies contract-pharmacy drug-pricing federal-preemption federal-regulation healthcare-policy state-preemption state-regulation statutory-interpretation Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in holding—in conflict with the decisions of other circuits and this Court—that a State may strip manufacturers of th…
24-119 Alan Safahi v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied civil-procedure contract-breach contract-law criminal-fraud criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-fraud federal-fraud fraudulent-inducement statutory-interpretation Whether a party who subsequently breaches a contract can be guilty of federal criminal fraud in the absence of fraudulent inducement
24-120 David Schieferle v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied 2nd-amendment atf-interpretation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearms firearms-silencer national-firearms-act second-amendment self-defense silencers Whether items such as inline fuel filters and firearms solvent traps can qualify as 'firearms silencers' or 'firearm mufflers' under the National Fire…
24-121 John Won v. United States Second Circuit Denied Amici (1) confrontation-clause constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence exceptional-circumstances interest-of-justice sixth-amendment two-way-video video-testimony Whether the Confrontation Clause contains an exception that permits the government to present testimony at a criminal trial by two-way video so long a…
24-125 Ahmed Alahmedalabdaloklah v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied brady-disclosure brady-obligations conspiracy criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritoriality-jurisdiction federal-agencies federal-agency improvised-explosive-devices statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. 844(f) and (n) apply extraterritorially to offenses committed abroad by non-U.S. persons, despite the statute's lack of any affirmat…
24-148 Wittaya Theerachanon v. FIA Cards Services, et al. Delaware Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abuse-of-process bad-debt-deduction contract-dispute court-filing judicial-misconduct legal-procedure Whether the pattern of abuse of process by the Respondent in multiple court proceedings constitutes a violation of legal standards for fair adjudicati…
24-151 United States v. Palestine Liberation Organization, et al. Second Circuit Judgment Issued Relisted (2) due-process fifth-amendment legislative-jurisdiction palestinian-authority personal-jurisdiction terrorism-civil-suits Whether the Promoting Security and Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act's method of establishing personal jurisdiction over the Palestine Liberation O…
24-20 Miriam Fuld, et al. v. Palestine Liberation Organization, et al. Second Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (2) anti-terrorism-act consent-to-jurisdiction due-process fifth-amendment palestinian-authority palestinian-liberation-organization personal-jurisdiction promoting-security-and-justice-for-victims-of-terr statutory-interpretation Whether the PSJVTA violates the Fifth Amendment
24-224 Plumbers Local 290 Pension Trust Fund v. Root, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit Dismissed Relisted (2) circuit-split disclosure-standards materiality risk-factors sec-filing securities-law Whether the Supreme Court should resolve the circuit split regarding the misleading nature of risk factor disclosures in SEC filings when a warned ris…
24-346 Robert Beadles v. Jamie Rodriguez, et al. Nevada Denied election-grievances first-amendment government-accountability petition-clause pleading-standards rule-12b5-dismissal Whether the failure of state and local officials to address election grievances violates a citizen's First Amendment right to petition the government …
24-353 Elelake James Jefferson, Jr. v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied consent-doctrine fourth-amendment schneckloth-standard subjective-intent totality-of-circumstances warrantless-search Whether a court should consider a defendant's subjective intent when assessing consent to a warrantless search under the totality of the circumstances…
24-356 Sonya Munroe v. Aetna Medicare, et al. Second Circuit Denied administrative-remedies claim-exhaustion insurance-claims judicial-review medicare-jurisdiction medicare-procedures When should courts have jurisdiction over Medicare cases where claimants have not shown that they pursued or exhausted the administrative remedies req…
24-359 Adriana Alvarez v. Texas Workforce Commission Fifth Circuit Denied due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection religious-accommodation sovereign-immunity title-vii Whether the Texas Workforce Commission's sovereign immunity bars a Title VII religious accommodation claim and violates due process and equal protecti…
24-368 Levi Rudder v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas Fifth Circuit Denied article-v constitutional-interpretation first-amendment judicial-review separation-of-powers unenumerated-powers Whether the federal government's exercise of unenumerated powers violates Article V of the U.S. Constitution and infringes upon individual rights thro…
24-369 Hassell Construction Company, Inc., et al. v. Harris County Improvement District No. 18, et al. Texas Denied Response Waived automatic-stay bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-stay equitable-tolling state-court-litigation statutory-interpretation Whether state courts may retroactively refuse to apply 11 U.S.C. §362(a)(3) as plainly worded, with attendant equitable tolling principles, after a ba…
24-374 Richard P. Homrighausen v. Ohio Ohio Denied constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process jury-trial logical-inconsistency verdict-review Whether a criminal defendant is denied due process when convicted of two crimes where a guilty verdict on one count logically excludes a finding of gu…
24-376 Brennaris Marquis Johnson v. Washington Washington Denied fourteenth-amendment jury-finding reasonable-doubt sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment upward-departure Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require a jury to find beyond a reasonable doubt that aggravating facts amount to 'substantial and compell…
24-378 Muzafar Babakr v. Jacob T. Fowles, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived burden-shifting civil-procedure excusable-neglect pioneer-factors qualified-immunity summary-judgment Whether the Pioneer factors for excusable neglect are weighted unequally and whether summary judgment standards change when qualified immunity is rais…
24-398 Jantzen Verastique, et al. v. City of Dallas, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-violations deliberate-indifference governmental-entity legal-precedent pattern-requirement section-1983 Whether Leatherman v. Tarrant County precedent applies to deliberate indifference claims under § 1983 and whether pattern of constitutional violations…
24-4 In Re E. Edward Zimmermann Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-procedure distinction due-process equal-protection legal-interpretation petitioner standing statutory-interpretation Is Petitioner a distinction without a difference?
24-403 Cai Hunter McIntosh v. Washington Washington Denied Response Waived civil-rights-restoration federal-law firearm-rights juvenile-conviction second-amendment state-law Should a sealed juvenile conviction that has essentially disappeared and for which a person's civil rights have been restored prevent someone from own…
24-405 Indiana, ex rel. Deborah Walton v. Superior Court 6 of Indiana, Hamilton County, et al. Indiana Denied Response Waived dodd-frank foreclosure-proceedings mortgage-servicing respa state-law supremacy-clause Whether State Laws are bound by Dodd Frank Regulation X section 1024.41(f)(1) when pending RESPA complaints show foreclosure is preempted by the Supre…
24-406 Matthew Hunady v. Donna Chisesi, Administratrix of the Estate of Jonathon Victor, Deceased Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-court deadly-force interlocutory-review law-enforcement qualified-immunity standard-of-review Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision improperly applied a reasonable jury standard instead of a reasonable officer standard in a qualified immunity…
24-414 Reuben Larson v. CommunityWorks North Dakota, et al. North Dakota Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure brief-requirements constitutional-challenge court-rules judicial-discretion procedural-due-process Whether a court rule mandating brief page limits and paragraph numbering, with dismissal for non-compliance, is unconstitutional
24-418 Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. v. Mary N. Insall, as Executrix of the Estate of John N. Insall Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split contract-enforcement patent-rights patent-royalties patent-term public-policy Whether an agreement for a royalty exchanged for patent rights that extends to sales of products as marketed or branded is enforceable under Brulotte …
24-419 Hartono Djokro, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General First Circuit Denied Response Waived None
24-426 Plan Benefit Services, Inc., et al. v. Heriberto Chavez, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing circuit-split class-action class-certification federal-civil-procedure standing-doctrine Whether the Supreme Court should resolve the circuit split on the proper approach to determining Article III standing in class action lawsuits
24-460 Corey Miller v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals life-without-parole racial-prejudice supervisory-power Whether the Court of Appeals' repeated misapplication of the standard for issuing a certificate of appealability warrants the Court's supervisory inte…
24-471 Jonathan Guerra Blanco v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived None Question not identified.
24-478 Omnisun Azali v. Ohio Ohio Denied Amici (1)Response Waived appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure self-defense sufficiency-of-evidence Does express statutory permission to act in self-defense trigger Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment protections requiring prosecutors to prove beyond a re…
24-480 Kimberly K. Sisia v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived diversity-jurisdiction eleventh-circuit insurance-coverage medical-payments state-law substantive-law Whether the Eleventh Circuit improperly applied state substantive law in a diversity jurisdiction case involving medical payments coverage by State Fa…
24-488 Fadi Georges Ghanem v. Texas Texas Denied Response Waived due-process felony-penalties fourteenth-amendment legal-framework medical-practice state-courts Whether state laws criminalizing medical practice through felony penalties that create an unworkable legal framework violate the Due Process Clause of…
24-492 Marino Scafidi v. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights material-fact nonmovant-evidence probable-cause summary-judgment supreme-court-precedent Whether the Ninth Circuit violated Supreme Court precedent by improperly weighing evidence and failing to draw justifiable inferences in favor of the …
24-493 Michael Shipton v. Baltimore Gas & Electric Company, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split employer-liability employment-law fmla-interpretation good-faith-defense statutory-interpretation Whether an employer's honest but mistaken belief about an employee's FMLA-protected leave precludes liability under the Family and Medical Leave Act
24-5020 Velina M. Johnson v. Inland Residential Real Estate Services, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP automatic-stay civil-procedure-60b-motion due-process fair-housing-act fraud-on-the-court housing-discrimination housing-retaliation judicial-bias rule-60-motion shotgun-pleading willful-violation-of-automatic-stay Whether a motion to vacate the court of appeals judgment is proper when the court of appeals defied its prior decision on the definition of a 'shotgun…
24-5034 Ralph Loren Barenz, II v. Alaska Alaska Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bill-of-attainder constitutional-challenge due-process irrebuttable-presumption irrebuttable-presumptions judicial-review legislative-sentencing sentencing sexual-offender sexual-offenders unconstitutional Has the Alaskan Legislature created an Unconstitutional Bill of Attainder when it raised the presumptive sentencing ranges for sexual offenders for pa…
24-5037 William J. Kemp v. John Rivello, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process griffin-v-california habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-instructions miranda-rights prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether the prosecutor's actions and trial court's instructions violated due process and warrant independent habeas review under Griffin v. California…
24-5084 Terrence E. Gilchrist v. Simone Craig Ohio Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP child-support due-process equal-protection equitable-relief fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights privileges-and-immunities procedural-protections social-security-act takings-clause turner-v-rogers Whether non-adherence to Turner procedural protections violates substantive-due-process-and-privileges-and-immunities,takings-clause,due-process-and-e…
24-5117 Terrance Nathaniel Brown, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 21-usc-841 acquitted-conduct due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-sentencing Whether counsel was ineffective for failing to argue that the statutory sentence be based on marijuana under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(D) and that the sen…
24-5163 Thomas Leo Springs v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP aedpa-deference capital-punishment habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasoned-state-court-opinion state-court-review strickland-prejudice strickland-standard Whether a federal court applying AEDPA deference to a reasoned state court opinion may ignore the explanation provided by the state court and instead …
24-5171 Jeffrey Wayne Ross v. Edward Bickham, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights defense-witnesses due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel non-homicide-case self-defense sixth-amendment Whether the trial court and Fifth Circuit erred in finding no ineffective assistance of counsel
24-519 Eunice Bisong Nkongho v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived border-search criminal-investigation electronic-media fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-warrant Whether the border exception to the Fourth Amendment allows warrantless seizure and search of electronic media for criminal investigation purposes, an…
24-522 Eghbal Saffarinia, aka Eddie Saffarinia v. United States District of Columbia Denied Amici (4)Response Waived administrative-procedure agency-review criminal-law false-statement obstruction statutory-interpretation Whether a false statement or omission allegedly intended to obstruct routine procedures, such as ordinary-course agency review of annual disclosure fo…
24-5256 Michael Darren Boydston v. Texas Texas Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-provisions court-procedure evidence-rules judicial-review legal-jurisdiction statutory-provisions Question not identified.
24-526 Garth Drabinsky v. Actors' Equity Association Second Circuit Denied Response Waived antitrust-law due-process labor-exemption legitimate-interests rule-12b6 union-immunity Whether the statutory labor exemption provides blanket antitrust immunity to unions through Rule 12(b)(6) dismissal when the union's justification is …
24-5283 In Re Kenton G. Findlay Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights court-of-appeal due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-relief Did the Third District Court of Appeal violate due process rights under the Florida Constitution and the 5th and 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constitut…
24-5291 Ethan Printemps-Herget v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights federal-court-procedure legal-representation pro-se-litigation summary-judgment witness-testimony Whether pro se litigants are entitled to full legal participation and representation in federal court proceedings despite limited legal knowledge
24-5304 Angela Goldman Selby v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP agent-orange color-of-law due-process fifth-amendment takings-clause veterans-rights Did the Veteran Affairs violate constitutional rights by improperly applying regulations and disbursing funds owed to deceased veterans exposed to Age…
24-5347 Devin Allen Bennett v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied IFP death-penalty eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance mitigation-evidence sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether trial counsel's failure to investigate, uncover, and present evidence of defendant's reduced moral culpability may be categorically discounted…
24-5403 Tynia Levesy v. Christopher Scolese, Director, National Reconnaissance Office, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-claims fourth-circuit jurisdiction rule-26f rule-56d Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals have jurisdiction over constitutional claims and properly apply procedural rules in this case?
24-541 Palm Beach Polo, Inc. v. Village of Wellington, Florida Florida Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment code-enforcement due-process lien-foreclosure local-government municipal-code Whether the Florida Local Government Code Enforcement Boards Act creates unconstitutional due process violations through vague and conflicting provisi…
24-5414 Cleveland J. Enmon v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit jury-instructions medical-prescription ruan-standard standard-of-review Whether the Eleventh Circuit erroneously applied an objective standard in jury instructions for a physician's prescription case in light of the Ruan v…
24-5418 Donald G. Barnes, Sr. v. William Danforth, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance legal-remedy post-conviction-relief Whether a criminal defendant's right to effective assistance of counsel is violated by a post-conviction delay that impedes access to legal remedies a…
24-5471 In Re Keith Girvan Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure eyewitness-evidence habeas-corpus judicial-review pro-se-petition state-court-findings Whether 3rd Circuit Local Appellate Rules, Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 3(e), and 28 U.S.C. 2254 apply to Habeas Corpus Proceedings and provide…
24-5544 Evan Wald v. New York New York Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP autopsy-report confrontation-clause crawford-standard criminal-procedure homicide-investigation testimonial-evidence Whether a certified autopsy report created as part of a homicide investigation is 'testimonial' under the Confrontation Clause framework established i…
24-5556 Kenneth Roshaun Reid v. Warden, Canaan USP Third Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP None Question not identified.
24-5570 In Re Joseph R. Dickey Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP federal-prisoners habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2254 section-2255 statutory-interpretation Whether the bar in 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(1) applies to claims presented by federal prisoners in a second or successive motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. …
24-5660 In Re Pakuja Crystal Vang Denied IFP civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment judicial-misconduct Whether the Fourth Circuit improperly dismissed the petitioner's constitutional claims involving civil rights violations and procedural misconduct
24-5662 In Re Noel Brown Denied IFP brady-violation cause-and-prejudice constitutional-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus Whether the intentional withholding of exculpatory evidence by prosecution and failure to allow cross-examination of an arresting officer constitutes …
24-5663 George Ashetzie v. Illinois Illinois Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights court-notification due-process judicial-review pro-se-appeal Whether the appellate court's denial of a pro se appeal and failure to provide proper notice constitutes a due process violation
24-5667 Willard Smith v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP court-judgment legal-proceeding parties related-cases scotus-petition writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24-5673 Jonathan Eugene Brunson v. John Herring, Superintendent, Maury Correctional Institution Fourth Circuit Dismissed IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claim due-process evidence-review fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus Whether the lower courts violated the Fourteenth Amendment by denying Petitioner's claim of actual innocence and right to review evidence supporting h…
24-5676 Henry Altamirano v. Nethanjah Breitenbach, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP antiterrorism-act due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus limitation-period subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the Petitioner have the right to have his subject matter jurisdiction claim heard on its merits despite filing a federal habeas petition after the…
24-5691 Antoine Edwards v. Bradley Scott, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act What is the appropriate remedy for a Speedy Trial Act violation under 18 U.S.C.A § 3161 and the Sixth Amendment's constitutional protections?
24-5693 John Cornelius Montgomery v. John W. Segrest Fifth Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-5696 Gregory Savoy v. Peter Franchot, Comptroller of Maryland Maryland Denied Response WaivedIFP chemical-lobotomy constitutional-rights customary-international-law due-process federal-rules-of-procedure judicial-notice Whether courts can deny judicial notice of a scientifically verifiable fact when such denial potentially constitutes a crime against humanity under Cu…
24-5704 Lori M. Moody v. Edward W. Horan Florida Denied IFP absolute-privilege defamation-per-se due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial seventh-amendment Does the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial extend to a state court defamation per se action, and does absolute privilege protect a lawyer who fa…
24-5705 Norris Hicks v. Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-procedure constitutional-minimum due-process judicial-review liberty-interest parole-guidelines Whether the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles can arbitrarily refuse to follow its own rules and guidelines without violating due process rights
24-5710 David W. Buck, Jr. v. Illinois Illinois Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-5713 Hector Acosta v. Texas Texas Denied IFP death-sentence due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment national-origin race-discrimination Whether the State's invocation of a defendant's nationality and ethnicity to obtain a death sentence violates the Equal Protection and Due Process Cla…
24-5716 Dale B. Green v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violations dismissal district-court judicial-review legal-standing Whether the district court's dismissal of a civil rights action was proper given the plaintiff's allegations of constitutional violations
24-5726 William Hudson v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP digital-search fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-test warrant-particularity Whether digital searches of entire computer contents violate the Fourth Amendment's particularity requirement and whether ineffective assistance of co…
24-5728 Anthony Raymoné Clark v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP appeal-process criminal-procedure district-court final-judgment post-conviction procedural-rules Whether the trial judge and state's attorney improperly created an impediment to a timely post-conviction application appeal
24-5729 Jerome Coast v. Georgia Georgia Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law jurisdiction Question not identified.
24-5749 Noel Vincent Thomas v. North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, et al. Fourth Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-review failure-to-state-claim federal-rules res-judicata sovereign-immunity trial-court Whether the trial court erred in affirming the lower court decision based on failure to state a claim, failure to comply with federal rules, sovereign…
24-5787 Taiming Zhang v. X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment immunity-doctrine section-230 Whether the Supreme Court will review the 9th Circuit's interpretation of 47 U.S. Code § 230 and its potential constitutional implications
24-5804 Khaled Abdel-Fattah v. Mark T. Eno New Hampshire Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure due-process-violation jurisdiction-challenge llc-operating-agreement void-judgment Can a state supreme court retroactively grant jurisdiction to a trial court that initially lacked jurisdiction and compel an appeal of a void judgment…
24-5814 John Russell Howald v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bodily-injury commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits hate-crime sexual-orientation Whether the Hate Crime Prevention Act's prohibition on bodily injury based on sexual orientation is unconstitutional under the Commerce Clause
24-5823 Jose Bernazard v. Mark Miller, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief Whether a state court's denial of post-conviction relief based on ineffective assistance of counsel claims violates a petitioner's due process rights …
24-5838 Joseph Boswell, Sr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split count-of-conviction evidentiary-standard spillover-prejudice trial-strategy When an appellate court vacates some, but not all, counts of conviction on appeal, what standard or test should the appellate court apply to determine…
24-5857 Dimas Deleon Rios v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability judicial-explanation meaningful-review petitioner-rights procedural-due-process Does an appellate court have an obligation to provide sufficient explanation for denying a certificate of appealability to enable a petitioner to seek…
24-5860 Elliot Rivera v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit civil-procedure due-process federal-rules fifth-amendment rule-60 Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in limiting Rule 60(d)(3) relief to civil matters and potentially violating due process rights
24-5872 Lauren Irene Gannon v. Texas Texas Denied Response WaivedIFP barker-v-wingo constitutional-right criminal-appeal sixth-court-of-appeals speedy-trial texas-criminal-procedure Did the Sixth Court of Appeals of Texas misapply the Barker v. Wingo factors for determining whether a violation of a defendant's right to speedy tria…
24-5880 Eric Schmidt v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the presumption of mens rea applies to elements that increase statutory minimum and maximum penalties or only to elements that criminalize oth…
24-5881 Deshon Aaron Atkins v. David Holbrook, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP article-three dispositive-order exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus judicial-review magistrate-jurisdiction Whether the Central District of California's practice of allowing magistrate judges to issue orders with dispositive effects on habeas petitioners' ri…
24-5882 Tyrone Greenfield v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-history judicial-discretion miscalculation procedural-error relevant-conduct sentencing Whether a sentence may be sustained if it relies upon an obvious and gross miscalculation pertaining to alleged wrongdoing that results in incorrect r…
24-5887 Christian Romero v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus local-court-rule sovereign-immunity writ-of-certiorari Whether a local court rule can constitutionally prohibit successive habeas petitions and deny remedy for alleged constitutional violations
24-5888 Terrion Deondre Herman v. R. Brown Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-amendment government-surveillance privacy-rights reasonable-expectation search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether the government's use of a tracking device to monitor an individual's movements in a private apartment complex without a warrant violates Fourt…
24-5890 Ushery Stewart v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split drug-dealer fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether the Fourth Amendment permits a warrantless search of a residence based solely on a person's status as a known drug dealer and whether Leon's g…
24-5891 Kimberly Cannon v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-error judicial-discretion probation-violation sentencing-discretion Whether a trial court commits fundamental error by considering a subsequent offense without arrest or conviction when sentencing a probation violation…
24-5894 Robert S. Pierce v. Jim Salmonsen, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-procedure rule-10c supreme-court-precedent Whether state and federal courts can operate by void judgment and without authority to maintain convictions in violation of Rule 10(c) while disregard…
24-5895 Jonathan Godwin v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP district-court due-process judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss relief-from-judgment rule-60-motion Whether a District Court abused its discretion by dismissing a Rule 60(b)(4) Motion for Relief from Judgment alleging a due process violation
24-5898 Herman Felton, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-violation criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus pro-se-petition Why was the petitioner denied an evidentiary hearing and what constitutional violations occurred?
24-5900 Michael Scales v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP legal-document petition supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24-5902 Demetrius D. Bibbs v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy convicted-felon firearm-possession heroin-distribution insufficient-evidence manifest-weight Whether there is insufficient evidence to convict Mr. Bibbs of heroin distribution conspiracy and firearm possession by a convicted felon, and whether…
24-5905 Huosheng Xian v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure jury-verdict mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing Whether a sentencing judge can make safety-valve findings when a defendant's statements are inconsistent with the jury's verdict
24-5909 Bay Travon Wilson v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction firearms-possession gun-control second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment as applied to a person convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for more than one y…
24-5914 Anthony Perry v. Gina M. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-service discrimination-claim due-process jurisdictional-review mixed-case-appeal Whether the D.C. Circuit Court's dismissal of a mixed case appeal without an evidentiary hearing violates due process and prevents judicial review of …
24-5919 Kent Booher v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing district-court judicial-discretion restitution sentencing-guidelines Whether the district court improperly calculated restitution in a criminal case
24-5921 Christopher Koteras v. Daniel Akers, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing judicial-discretion sixth-amendment witness-communication Whether a victim's advocate's non-verbal communication with a child witness during trial constitutes prejudicial error that violates a defendant's rig…
24-5922 Christopher Gabriel Allen-Shinn v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation guilty-plea judicial-precedent procedural-standard seven-factor-test withdrawal Whether the seven-factor test for withdrawing a guilty plea complies with the Supreme Court's precedent in Kercheval v. United States
24-5926 Glenn Thomas v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-discretion sentencing Question not identified.
24-5928 Erick Gachuhi Wanjiku v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process judicial-procedure legal-representation pro-se right-to-counsel voir-dire Whether a pro se litigant's right to due process was violated when the court failed to appoint counsel and declined to rule on all issues presented
24-5931 Terrell Dashaun Wesley v. Tyrone Baker, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bench-trial closing-arguments herring-error judicial-procedure trial-rights verdict-timing Whether a reversible Herring error occurs when a trial judge permits closing arguments only after announcing a verdict
24-5933 Garry David Gallardo v. United States Fifth Circuit Closed Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-rights due-process federal-criminal-procedure judicial-review structural-defects Whether the federal criminal courts can review structural defects in lower court proceedings when constitutional rights have potentially been violated
24-5934 Richard Balter v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP compassionate-release constitutional-review judicial-discretion pre-booker-sentencing sentencing-discretion united-states-sentencing-commission Whether a District Court has the Discretion to Decline to Follow the United States Sentencing Commission's Policy Statement and Whether It is Constitu…
24-5938 John Charles Schnekenburger v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-USC-2253 circuit-split criminal-procedure non-contraband-seizure property-forfeiture statutory-interpretation Whether the scope of 18 USC §2253 allows for forfeiture of property contents and whether a criminal defendant can recover non-contraband items from fo…
24-5940 Charlton Beasley v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c)-conviction actual-innocence davis-decision procedural-default section-2255 statute-of-limitations Did Beasley overcome procedural default under § 2255 when filing within one year of the Davis Supreme Court decision, and is he entitled to relief for…
24-5941 Santos Cuevas v. Josh Highberger, Acting Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Oregon Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule constitutional-rights criminal-history habeas-corpus jury-fact-finding sentencing-guidelines Whether a defendant can challenge sentencing guidelines rules that increase criminal history score and sentence length without jury fact-finding under…
24-5949 Anastacio G. Ramirez v. Martin Gamboa, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review federal-court-standard habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance section-2254 state-court-review Whether a federal habeas court can independently evaluate state court factual determinations under Cullen v. Pinholster and Harrington v. Richter when…
24-5950 Terry Eugene Iversen v. David Pedro, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment life-sentence public-indecency recidivist Whether a life sentence without parole for recidivist public indecency violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment
24-5951 Manuel Moya v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge felon-ban firearm-possession plain-error second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether a lifetime ban on firearm possession for felons under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional given the lack of a historical analog…
24-5957 Jeramy Davis v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-sentencing federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Do district courts have subject matter jurisdiction to impose a criminal sentence in the absence of a showing that the defendant committed an offense …
24-5972 Alex N. Morales-Velez v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance mandatory-minimum plea-agreement sentencing-recommendation strickland-standard Whether defense counsel's failure to object to a sentencing recommendation constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel under Strickland v. Washingto…
24-5973 Osiel Huertas v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres apprendi-rule notice-clause prior-conviction-exception recidivism-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the prior-conviction exception from Almendarez-Torres can be squared with the text of the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause and the historical p…
24-74 In Re Alphonza Leonard Phillip Thomas Bey Denied Relisted (2) 14th-amendment 8th-amendment black-negro-colored-persons constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment jurisdiction property state-court Question not identified.
24-83 Martin Akerman v. National Guard Bureau District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) due-process enemy-combatant habeas-corpus military-detention userra whistleblower whistleblower-protection Due-process-violation
24-91 Targeted Justice, Incorporated, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process injunctive-relief national-security redress-mechanism standing subject-matter-jurisdiction terrorist-watchlist Whether this Court's holding in Fed. Bureau of Investigation v. Fikre warrants reversal of the court of appeals' decision affirming the district court…
24A328 Good Lawgic, LLC, et al. v. Juan M. Merchan, Justice, New York State Supreme Court, New York County New York Presumed Complete first-amendment judicial-sanctions legal-ethics media-litigation professional-responsibility trial-court-conduct Whether a state court can impose sanctions or restrict legal practice based on litigation conduct in a high-profile criminal case involving a media co…
24A430 Martin Akerman v. National Guard Bureau District of Columbia Presumed Complete due-process federal-detention judicial-review military-authority national-security posse-comitatus Whether federal and state military authorities can detain a federal agency official under federalized powers without judicial review, in potential vio…
24M43 Mehdi Moini v. Ellen M. Granberg, in Her Official Capacity as President of George Washington University District of Columbia Presumed Complete None
24M44 Laura Lynn Hammett v. Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC, et al. Eighth Circuit Presumed Complete None