Conference: 2025-01-10

307 cases — 0 granted, 307 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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Case Title Lower Court Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22O160 Utah, Plaintiff v. United States Denied Amici (11) None
23-1284 Jose Franklin Arau v. Rocket Mortgage, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) Part 53.228 bills-of-exchange bonds commerce-clause commercial-paper discharge-of-debt foreclosure-standing holder mortgage-discharge securitized-bonds securitized-mortgage title-48-cfr treasury-fiscal-agent Can the identified 'Holder' of the Securitized mortgage debt avoid discharge of said debt when bonds are issued in accord with Title 48 C.F.R. Ch. 1, …
23-6606 In Re Jose Alonso Jimenez Denied Relisted (2)IFP article-iii civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation jurisdictional-issue juvenile-justice legal-standards sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Question not identified
23-7273 Lidia M. Orrego v. Kevin Knipfing, aka Kevin James, et al. Second Circuit Denied Relisted (3)IFP abuse-of-power constitutional-rights deprivation-of-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-bias miscarriage-of-justice second-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recognizes the mitigating effects of upholding the Constitutional Rights to Due Proc…
23-7399 In Re Gilbert Martinez Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies civil-procedure due-process enlargement-of-time judicial-discretion recusal recusal-standard rule-60-relief social-security-review standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Circuit court abused its discretion
23-7400 Leslie J. Reynard v. Washburn University of Topeka Tenth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP ada-accommodation ada-title-i eeoc-filing eeoc-filing-requirements equitable-tolling light-sensitivity qualified-disabled-employees reasonable-accommodation seizure-disorder summary-judgment Did Washburn's delay in providing Dr. Reynard's reasonable accommodation violate its ADA Title I obligation?
23-7515 Carlos Davis v. Hemmersbach US, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appellate-procedure circuit-rules civil-procedure contract-law due-process evidence evidence-presentation jurisdiction verbal-agreement verbal-contract Does the 5th Circuit's circuit rules supersede The Federal Circuit and U.S Supreme Court, particularly when parties may present new arguments for the …
23-7534 Charles Feick v. The Brutsche Family Revocable Trust, et al. Washington Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ability-to-pay constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights Whether the Equal Protection Clause and Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment require the state to demonstrate a rational basis for treating …
23-7559 Nickholas Knight, Sr. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process fair-trial government-coercion redress-grievances standing Whether the 'initiation' standard for coercion by US Government officials applies when an American citizen has previously provoked their right to redr…
23-7562 Ricky Escobedo v. Katherine R. Gutierrez, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (3)IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether petitioner's motorvehicle traffic stop by a third-party (State - Local) under federal color of law was the result of a denial of his Fourth Am…
23-7621 Kevin Rashaan Golden v. City of Longview, Public Works Division, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure discrimination discrimination-claim federal-rules-of-civil-procedure mcdonnell-douglas mcdonnell-douglas-test reeves rule-52 rule-56 summary-judgment Whether the court of appeals departed from this Court's holdings
23-7665 Kenneth Oteng Duodu v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP article-vi confrontation-clause constitutional-rights consular-notification criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus international-obligations vienna-convention Whether the failure of the Fairfax County Police Department to notify the Consulate of Ghana in contravention of the petitioner's established consular…
23-7675 Darren Deon Johnson v. Michigan Michigan Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing constitutional-law judicial-review legal-procedure statutory-interpretation supreme-court Question not identified
23-7701 Robin Jones v. Angela Reaves, Warden, et al. Georgia Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal certificate-of-appealability certiorari civil-rights court-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction legal-review petition supreme-court Whether the federal courts should address the Strickland Assistance of Trial Counsel claims are moot due to the claims being stayed, whether dismissin…
23-7732 Jose Edgar Hernandez v. Texas Texas Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process free-speech immigration-law judicial-review migrants-rights standing takings Question not identified
23-7758 In Re Janice Wolk Grenadier Denied Relisted (2)IFP accountability judicial-accountability judicial-ethics judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct judicial-oversight judicial-transparency oversight public-trust transparency Question not identified.
23-7789 In Re Glenn A. Holder Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process due-process-violations fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard structural-error Wrongful-conviction
23-914 Diane Zilka v. City of Philadelphia, Tax Review Board Pennsylvania Denied CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (3) commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation interstate-taxation out-of-state-tax state-tax tax-burden tax-credit tax-scheme taxpayer-burden Whether the Commerce Clause requires states to consider a taxpayer's burden in light of the state tax scheme as a whole when crediting a taxpayer's ou…
23-947 Sunoco LP, et al. v. City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, et al. Hawaii Denied CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) civil-procedure climate-change environmental-law federal-preemption greenhouse-gas greenhouse-gas-emissions interstate-emissions standing state-law state-law-claims Whether federal law precludes state-law claims seeking redress for injuries allegedly caused by the effects of interstate and international greenhouse…
23-952 Shell PLC, fka Royal Dutch Shell PLC, et al. v. City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, et al. Hawaii Denied CVSGRelisted (2) clean-air-act climate-change constitutional-law federal-law federal-preemption foreign-emissions interstate-emissions preemption state-law Whether claims seeking damages for the effects of interstate and international emissions on the global climate are beyond the limits of state law and …
23-969 Charles Walen, et al., Appellants v. Doug Burgum, Governor of North Dakota, et al. North Dakota Denied CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (2) None
24-1 In Re Yehoram Uziel Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial impartial-tribunal judicial-misconduct mandamus self-represented-litigant Whether Petitioner is entitled to an Extraordinary Writ of Mandamus to litigate his FEDERAL Court cases against the State of California
24-156 Leachco, Inc. v. Consumer Product Safety Commission, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Amici (5) administrative-agency constitutional-law due-process preliminary-injunction presidential-removal-power separation-of-powers Does the for-cause restriction on the President's removal of CPSC Commissioners violate the separation of powers, and can such a violation constitute …
24-180 Roku, Inc. v. International Trade Commission, et al. Federal Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) domestic-industry exclusion-order international-trade-commission multi-purpose-software patent-protection section-337 Did the ITC exceed its Section 337 authority by finding the entirety of complainant's investments in unpatented, multi-purpose software to be 'with re…
24-183 Saleh Shaiban v. Ur M. Jaddou, Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) None
24-21 Tina Gerlach v. Todd Rokita, Attorney General of Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-u.s.c-1983 42-usc-1983 constitutional-violation federal-conflict just-compensation personal-capacity personal-capacity-suit sovereign-immunity takings-clause Whether a state's constitutional obligation to pay just compensation when taking property waives its sovereign immunity from a claim seeking damages f…
24-221 Douglas Alan Dyson v. Whitley County Regional Water & Sewer District, et al. Indiana Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights first-amendment free-exercise judicial-proceeding jurisdictional-authority summary-judgment Whether Judge Rentschler violated constitutional rights by denying judicial proceedings, granting summary judgment without constitutional oath, and in…
24-232 Duke Bradford, et al. v. Department of Labor, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Amici (2) administrative-law constitutional-delegation executive-power federal-contractors minimum-wage procurement-act Whether the Procurement Act authorizes the President to require federal permittees to pay their employees a minimum wage and whether such delegation v…
24-239 Kenneth Chloe v. George Washington University District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure chevron-doctrine constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review separation-of-powers Whether the United States District Court and Court of Appeals violated constitutional rights through administrative rulemaking and potential breach of…
24-250 Samuel Biar Pech v. Central Intelligence Agency Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) agency-misconduct civil-liberties constitutional-rights government-accountability harassment surveillance Whether the CIA violated constitutional rights through alleged long-term surveillance and harassment
24-264 Jay A. Liestman v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied child-pornography circuit-split federal-law sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation Whether a state offense involving child pornography can serve as a predicate for federal sentencing enhancement under 18 U.S.C. § 2252(b)(1) when the …
24-270 Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied administrative-law agency-interpretation line-extension medicaid-rebate new-drug-application statutory-construction Does a decision upholding an agency's statutory interpretation merely because it is 'perfectly sensible' comport with Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raim…
24-300 Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project v. Shane Jeffries, in His Official Capacity as Ochoco National Forest Supervisor, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied administrative-procedure-act administrative-record agency-action deliberative-materials judicial-review record-review Whether the Administrative Procedure Act permits an agency to categorically and unilaterally exclude deliberative materials from the administrative re…
24-302 Marcos Mendez v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) border-search cell-phone-search electronic-privacy fourth-amendment suspicionless-search warrantless-search Whether the Government may conduct a warrantless and suspicionless search of electronic contents of a person's cell phone at the border
24-309 Gabriel Gray, et al. v. Kathy Jennings, Attorney General of Delaware, et al. Third Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-liberties constitutional-rights irreparable-injury judicial-review legal-standing second-amendment Whether the infringement of Second Amendment rights constitutes per se irreparable injury
24-316 Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. v. Braidwood Management, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (27) appointments-clause constitutional-defect cost-sharing preventive-services statutory-provision task-force Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that the Task Force's structure violates the Appointments Clause and whether the statutory provision can…
24-318 BASF Corporation v. Bader Farms, Inc. Eighth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure circuit-split claim-processing cross-appeal-rule judicial-discretion jurisdictional-issue Whether the cross-appeal rule is a jurisdictional rule, a mandatory claim-processing rule, or an informal and flexible rule in civil cases
24-329 Michael Ashford, et al. v. Aviation Technical Services, Inc. Fifth Circuit Denied case-controversy diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction realignment removal state-court Whether realignment can be used to create diversity jurisdiction in a removed case notwithstanding the presence of an actual case and controversy betw…
24-336 Binance, et al. v. JD Anderson, et al. Second Circuit Denied Amici (1) comity-concerns extraterritoriality international-transactions judicial-test presumption-against-extraterritoriality securities-law Whether the Second Circuit's multifactor test for determining the domestic nature of securities transactions is consistent with the Supreme Court's ru…
24-337 Nantucket Residents Against Turbines, et al. v. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, et al. First Circuit Denied Amici (2) best-available-science endangered-species federal-agency offshore-wind-energy section-7-analysis statutory-obligations Whether federal agencies can exclude known and available science regarding impacts on endangered species from their Section 7 analysis under the Endan…
24-365 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC v. Charles Ramsey California Denied Amici (2) arbitration-agreement consumer-legal-remedies-act federal-arbitration-act preemption public-injunctive-relief unfair-competition-law Whether the FAA preempts California's McGill rule that renders standard arbitration agreements unenforceable when a consumer-plaintiff seeks to enjoin…
24-373 Maryland Shall Issue, Inc., et al v. Wes Moore, Governor of Maryland, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Amici (2) constitutional-challenge firearms-regulation gun-rights handgun-license maryland-law second-amendment Whether Maryland's Handgun Qualification License Requirement violates the Second Amendment
24-384 Meta Platforms, Inc., fka Facebook, Inc. v. DZ Reserve, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review circuit-split class-certification fraud-class-action predominance rule-23 Whether the Ninth Circuit's 'common course of conduct' test improperly dilutes Rule 23(b)(3)'s predominance requirement by ignoring differences among …
24-387 Malikah Asante-Chioke v. Nicholas Dowdle, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction collateral-order-doctrine discovery-order immunity-cases interlocutory-appeal judicial-review Whether federal appellate courts have jurisdiction to review routine discovery orders under the collateral order doctrine
24-390 Anthony Patterson v. Asli Baz Seventh Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) child-custody hague-convention international-law party-autonomy treaty-interpretation waiver-rights Whether parties to a Hague Convention child custody case may waive rights to seek child return and resolve disputes exclusively in the United States
24-416 Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Jennifer Zuch Third Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (4) administrative-review internal-revenue-service jurisdictional-challenge pre-deprivation-proceeding tax-court tax-levy Whether a pre-levy proceeding under 26 U.S.C. 6330 becomes moot when there is no longer a live dispute over the proposed levy
24-417 National Association of Realtors v. United States, et al. District of Columbia Denied contract-withdrawal government-rights illusory-promises party-presentation statutory-interpretation unmistakability-doctrine Whether the United States enjoys greater rights than a private party to withdraw from a contract based solely on its determination that it no longer w…
24-425 Jesse Rehbein, et al. v. Annette Rehbein, et al. Montana Denied Amici (1) best-interest-standard child-custody due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights parenting-plan Whether a state statute allowing court-ordered parental interest without finding parental unfitness violates due process rights under the Fourteenth A…
24-428 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation, et al. v. Meril Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) federal-circuit hatch-waxman-act patent-infringement regulatory-use safe-harbor statutory-interpretation Whether, under Hatch-Waxman's safe harbor, an infringing act is 'solely for uses reasonably related' to the federal regulatory process, when the infri…
24-431 Danny Ray Dunn v. Caryn Alissa Dunn Georgia Denied appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-ethics recusal-motion Whether the lack of an adequate recusal enforcement mechanism in Georgia state courts violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
24-441 A. M. B., et al. v. Kelly J. McKnight, Presiding Judge, Circuit Court of Wisconsin, Ashland County Wisconsin Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) adoption-rights constitutional-rights equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment second-parent-adoption Whether a State's categorical disqualification of unmarried people from adopting the children of their partners violates the Equal Protection Clause o…
24-450 Ohio, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived administrative-record agency-action chenery-doctrine clean-air-act judicial-review rulemaking-procedure Whether the Clean Air Act permits remand to the EPA to supplement the administrative record with new information and justifications after a rule is pr…
24-454 Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division Three, et al. California Denied bankruptcy-court civil-procedure due-process emotional-distress judicial-conflict self-representation Whether a self-represented litigant's due process rights were violated in a civil case involving emotional distress claims, bankruptcy court proceedin…
24-457 Bindya H. S. B. Singh v. Santa Clara County, California California Denied constitutional-rights fair-trial hipaa-violation race-discrimination securities-exchange whistleblower-rights Does a Citizen Whistleblower lose the Constitutional right to a fair trial under Whistleblower claim that reports multiple concerns of illegal activit…
24-46 Sintia Dines Nivar Santana v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Fourth Circuit GVR None
24-463 Marta Sanchez, et al. v. Anthony Guzman, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied affirmative-defense burden-of-proof civil-rights governmental-defendants legal-standard qualified-immunity Whether a civil rights plaintiff bears the burden of disproving the affirmative defense of qualified immunity for governmental defendants or whether g…
24-466 Vikramkumar J. Shah v. Novelis Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights corporate-defendants cross-jurisdictional-dispute judicial-discrimination pro-se-litigation procedural-fairness Whether the Supreme Court will address alleged discrimination against a pro se litigant in civil lawsuits involving multiple defendants in US and Indi…
24-467 Christopher Hadsell v. Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate District, et al. California Denied access-to-courts constitutional-challenge due-process fundamental-rights state-interest vexatious-litigant Whether California's Vexatious Litigant Law is unconstitutional on facial and as-applied grounds due to lack of narrow tailoring and compelling state …
24-469 Siyu Yang, et al. v. University of Rochester, et al. New York Denied None Question not identified.
24-475 Braidwood Management, Inc., et al. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied administrative-law agency-discretion health-insurance non-delegation-doctrine preventive-services statutory-interpretation Does 42 U.S.C. § 300gg-13(a)(1)–(4) violate the non-delegation doctrine by empowering agencies to unilaterally decree preventive care coverage without…
24-479 Teresita A. Canuto v. Department of Justice, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived case-caption circuit-court defendant-naming district-court judicial-procedure jurisdictional-issue Whether the Circuit Judges erred in changing the defendants' case caption and failing to detect a purported jurisdictional 'key' in a district court p…
24-497 Victor Hugo Galicia-Gonzalez v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Second Circuit Denied Response Waived None
24-498 Monaghan Farms, Inc. v. City and County of Denver, Colorado Colorado Denied constitutional-taking due-process eminent-domain kelo-doctrine property-rights public-use Whether the conversion of land originally condemned for airport purposes to private commercial use violates the constitutional public use requirement …
24-499 Nita A. v. A. A. Illinois Denied domestic-violence due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment ninth-amendment personal-jurisdiction Whether the Illinois Domestic Violence Act violated Nita's First, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights by interfering with her parent-child relation…
24-500 Darrin S. Rick v. Jodi Harpstead, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Human Services Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived actual-innocence civil-commitment habeas-corpus indefinite-confinement miscarriage-of-justice procedural-bar Whether the actual innocence exception which allows federal courts to consider a habeas corpus petition otherwise precluded by a procedural bar should…
24-5001 Tito Lemont Knox v. Jeffrey Krueger, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance privacy probable-cause search-and-seizure state-court-review Question not identified
24-501 V.V.V. & Sons Edible Oils Limited v. Meenakashi Overseas, LLC Ninth Circuit Denied appellate-damages circuit-precedent due-process federal-statute frivolous-appeal sanctions May an appellate court award damages for a frivolous appeal when the test used is unsupported by Circuit precedent and contradicts federal statute and…
24-502 John Doe v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction attorney-client-privilege criminal-investigation filter-team injunction-order privilege-review Does the fact that the privilege holder is under criminal investigation deprive appellate courts of jurisdiction to review orders refusing to enjoin a…
24-5044 In Re David Brian Derringer Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice rico civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation Question not identified
24-5056 Tyrone Stafford v. Arnold S. Zwicke, Executive Sheriff, Guadalupe County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement malicious-prosecution police-misconduct qualified-immunity use-of-force Question not identified.
24-5064 Rona Johnson Adeoye v. Clayton County DFCS Employees, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-power civil-rights conflicts-of-interest constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection false-arrest judicial-immunity statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24-507 James Daly v. City of De Soto, Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied None Question not identified.
24-508 Joseph Anoruo v. Department of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure due-process false-statements first-amendment performance-appraisal workplace-harassment Whether the Fifth Amendment due process clause and First Amendment Petition Clause are violated by false performance appraisals and administrative pro…
24-5097 Richard Dzionara-Norsen v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure-due-process,criminal-procedure- Whether Petitioner's conviction is supported by sufficient evidence to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt
24-5100 Elmer Dean Baker v. Indiana Indiana Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process fair-trial Fifth-Amendment-due-process Fourteenth-Amendment-due-process juror-misconduct jury-bias pre-trial-publicity sixth-amendment voir-dire Sixth-Amendment-right-to-fair-trial
24-516 Kathrine Ann Detwiler, Gary Robert Krum, and Elaine M. Barnhart v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response Waived cdc-recommendations federal-funding public-health-regulation school-board-authority state-sovereignty tenth-amendment Is it constitutionally permissible for a local school board to implement CDC health recommendations as mandatory rules using federal funding condition…
24-5193 James E. Clifford v. Carla Walker, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights default-judgment due-process fair-adjudication fourteenth-amendment procedural-error racial-discrimination Does the failure of the Appellate Court to recognize and address a procedural error, especially the entry and subsequent denial of default judgment ou…
24-5194 George Henry Purdy, III v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report second-amendment sentencing standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment?
24-521 Bethany Farber v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment section-1983 substantive-due-process unreasonable-seizures wrongful-detention Whether the right against wrongful detention falls under the Fourth Amendment's proscription against unreasonable seizures or the Fourteenth Amendment…
24-523 A. W., By and Through J. W., et al. v. Coweta County School System, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights compensatory-damages disability-rights emotional-distress intentional-discrimination Whether Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act allows victims of intentional discrimination to recover compensatory damages for emotional dis…
24-5240 Bradley Dale Hull v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied IFP federal-rules-of-evidence intent intent-element lower-court-decisions other-act-evidence prejudice probative-value rule-403 rule-404(b) rule-404b unfair-prejudice whether-other-act-evidence-under-rule-404(b)-is-substantially-outweighed-by-unfair-prejudice-under-rule-403
24-5241 Jason Gatlin v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment judicial-interference jury-verdict Whether a jury has rendered a final verdict and jeopardy terminates under the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment where the jury has indicat…
24-5257 Miguel Aguilar, Jr. v. Texas Texas Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-law equal-protection legislative-apportionment minority-representation redistricting voting-rights Whether a state's legislative apportionment scheme violates constitutional equal protection principles by potentially diluting minority voting power
24-527 Emory D. Christian v. Rancho Grande Manufactured Home Community, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived causation civil-rights constitutional-intent judicial-discretion procedural-law rule-12b6 Whether lower district courts have unconstrained discretion to dismiss civil rights complaints at the 12(b)(6) stage based on flawed interpretations o…
24-532 Federal Republic of Nigeria v. Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment Co. Ltd. District of Columbia Dismissed Response RequestedResponse Waived arbitration-agreement extratextual-context international-law new-york-convention sovereign-immunity treaty-interpretation Whether extratextual information such as historical context and contemporary domestic law should be used to interpret treaty language, and whether the…
24-5321 Terry M. Peterson, Jr. v. Wisconsin Wisconsin Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bodily-integrity fourth-amendment medical-procedure probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether a warrantless search of a suspect's body during a medical procedure violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches
24-5322 Richard Tipton v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied IFP categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence mens-rea physical-force predicate-offense Can a reviewing court substitute a finding of VICAR's purpose clause for the categorical analysis of whether the elements of its predicate state or fe…
24-534 Arizona Yagé Assembly, et al. v. United States District Court for the District of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived associational-privacy civil-discovery exacting-scrutiny first-amendment law-enforcement-demand religious-freedom Whether a church can challenge a civil discovery order requiring disclosure of member information under exacting scrutiny principles established in NA…
24-5342 In Re Richard J. Ramsey Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights court-martial due-process jury-trial sixth-amendment waiver-of-rights Whether waiving jury trial is constitutional under the 6th Amendment when the amendment did not secure trial by jury as an absolute right
24-5357 Peter Mule v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP federal-rules-civil-procedure judicial-review jurisdiction procedural-defect subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment Whether a court's judgment is void under FRCP 60(b)(4) when jurisdiction is lacking or improperly exercised
24-536 M&T Farms v. Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-interpretation auer-deference farming-activity statutory-interpretation whole-farm-revenue-protection Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in upholding Auer deference to the FCIC's retroactive interpretation of coverage under the Whole-Farm Revenue Protecti…
24-5366 Marquise Thomas v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP child-exploitation criminal-punishment jury-determination mandatory-minimum restitution-order sixth-amendment Does the Sixth Amendment require a jury to find the facts needed to justify a restitution order meeting or exceeding the $3,000 mandatory minimum for …
24-538 Donna Chisesi, Administratrix of the Estate of Jonathon Victor, Deceased v. Matthew Hunady, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied civil-rights interlocutory-appeal law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment Whether a court of appeals can decide factual disputes on an interlocutory appeal of qualified immunity and whether qualified immunity should be abrog…
24-5381 Nathan Cooper v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights fourth-amendment police-search probable-cause stop-and-frisk terry-stop Whether the Court should overrule the frisk holding of Terry v. Ohio, which allows police officers to search people absent probable cause to arrest
24-5390 Paulina Buhagiar v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP ada employment-discrimination intentional-emotional-distress ninth-circuit summary-judgment title-vii Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming summary judgment against an employee alleging workplace discrimination, retaliation, and emotional distre…
24-5395 Daniel Luke Meier v. Allstate Property & Casualty Insurance Company Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process insurance-claim judicial-misconduct section-1983 Did the lower courts and Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals commit fraud, tyranny, and oppression in a car accident injury claim by violating 42 U.S.C.§19…
24-540 Weih Steve Chang v. United States, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived china-initiative equal-protection executive-immunity korematsu-precedent national-security racial-discrimination Whether the Supreme Court will revisit the constitutionality of racial discrimination in national security programs and the applicability of the Equal…
24-5402 Craig Foote v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP counsel criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner was denied effective assistance of counsel
24-5432 Irina Collier v. Donald J. Trump District of Columbia Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection post-conviction-relief temporal-limitations Whether the temporal limitations imposed on a criminal defendant's post-conviction relief violated the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the…
24-5433 David Vargas v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split district-court judicial-discretion legal-interpretation procedural-error sentencing-guidelines Whether a district court's failure to follow the plain language of the Sentencing Guidelines constitutes an incorrect application of the Sentencing Gu…
24-5434 Jeffrey T. Daniels v. So Others Might Eat, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP harassment invasion-of-privacy personal-property-damage property-dispute theft-allegation unauthorized-entry Question not identified.
24-544 Patrick Emanuel Sutherland v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure coram-nobis fourth-circuit judicial-review post-conviction-remedy writ-of-error Whether the Fourth Circuit improperly limited the post-conviction remedy of a writ of coram nobis and created ambiguity in its scope
24-5440 Edward Moses, Jr. v. Louisiana Office of Disciplinary Counsel Louisiana Denied Relisted (2)IFP attorney-discipline confrontation-clause due-process judicial-procedure legal-ethics professional-misconduct Whether the Louisiana Supreme Court violated Edward Moses Jr.'s due process rights in suspending his law license without adequate confrontation
24-5451 Martin Moncada-de la Cruz v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP controlled-substances-act criminal-procedure drug-possession intent-to-distribute material-evidence witness-deportation Whether proof of possession with intent to distribute requires showing control over drugs beyond mere touching, and whether deportation of a material …
24-546 Karin Weng v. Julie A. Su, Acting Secretary of Labor District of Columbia Denied Response Waived comparator-evidence disciplinary-charges due-process employment-discrimination pretext summary-judgment Whether a plaintiff must demonstrate comparators are 'nearly identical' or merely 'similarly situated' in employment discrimination summary judgment p…
24-5462 Elsy Estela Diaz-Hernandez, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Fourth Circuit Denied IFP None
24-547 Maria E. Smith v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure agency-discretion citizenship-petition due-process immigration-law record-inspection Did the agency violate Mrs. Smith's due process rights by requiring that she rebut what it asserted was derogatory information but summarizing that in…
24-5501 Victor Manuel Campos-Ayala v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP controlled-substances-act due-process fourth-amendment miranda-warnings traffic-stop witness-deportation Whether law enforcement agents must read Miranda warnings during an investigative traffic stop prior to formal arrest, whether possession with intent …
24-5502 William L. Mitchell, Jr. v. Frank Kendall, Secretary of the Air Force Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP adjudication-on-merits appellate-procedure civil-litigation federal-rules-civil-procedure judicial-review voluntary-dismissal Whether a second voluntary dismissal under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 41(a)(1)(A) and (B) acts as an adjudication on the merits and forms a basi…
24-5503 Raekwon Malik Patton v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-enterprise jury-instructions purpose-element racketeering underlying-offense violent-crimes Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a) requires a minimum finding by the jury that the underlying crime was committed as a substantial purpose or integral aspect…
24-5519 Matthew Peddicord v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility prior-bad-acts propensity-evidence rule-404b Whether evidence of prior bad acts is admissible under Rule 404(b) where its relevance to a proper purpose depends on propensity reasoning
24-552 Deborah Walton v. First Merchants Bank Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived article-three due-process fifth-amendment intervention legal-standing sanctions Whether the 7th Circuit violated Article III and the 5th Amendment by allowing JPMorgan Chase to intervene in a closed case without legal standing and…
24-5529 Jose Muyet v. United States Second Circuit Denied IFP 28-U.S.C.-§-2255 circuit-split collateral-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine direct-review federal-criminal-conviction Does the concurrent sentence doctrine permit a federal court to decline review of a collateral challenge to a federal criminal conviction, even one ca…
24-5532 Eric Robert Rudolph v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence circuit-split collateral-attack-waiver habeas-corpus retroactive-constitutional-rule section-2255-motion When a § 2255 petitioner demonstrates through a retroactive constitutional rule that he is innocent, must an otherwise valid collateral-attack waiver …
24-5535 Cesar Yoaldo Castillo v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-statute federal-assault sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether a VICAR assault can qualify as a 'crime of violence' if the underlying assault does not satisfy 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)'s definition
24-555 Richard Stanton Whitman v. Shelbie Smith, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived None Question not identified.
24-5564 Marlene Fearing v. University of Minnesota Medical Center, aka M Health Fairview Clinics, et al. Minnesota Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process medical-malpractice obstruction-of-justice res-ipsa-loquitur subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the state court lose subject matter jurisdiction by violating state and federal laws and committing obstruction of justice?
24-5578 Randy Lamartiniere v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-delegation controlled-substances-act criminal-statute medical-standards mens-rea prescription-authorization Whether Congress delegated authority to the Attorney General to define 'effective prescription' under the Controlled Substances Act and what mens rea …
24-5579 John F. Kodenkandeth v. UPMC Health Plan, Inc., dba UPMC for Life, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP collateral-order-doctrine due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion removal-jurisdiction separation-of-powers Whether the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals and District Court of Western Pennsylvania erred through arbitrary and capricious abuse of discretion in hand…
24-559 Tenneco, Inc., et al. v. Tanika Parker, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived arbitration-procedure effective-vindication-exception erisa federal-arbitration-act plan-participant statutory-interpretation Whether the judge-made 'effective vindication' exception to the Federal Arbitration Act may be used to invalidate an individual arbitration procedure …
24-561 RSBCO v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived attorney-fees fifth-circuit-review invited-error jury-instructions procedural-violation tax-dispute Did the Fifth Circuit err in reversing a lower court ruling by interpreting undefined jury instructions and verdict forms in a tax dispute against the…
24-563 Karl W. Nichols v. Lance Wiersma Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived bad-faith-standard circuit-split constitutional-law due-process evidence-preservation exculpatory-evidence Whether the Seventh Circuit's McCarthy framework for evaluating exculpatory evidence preservation is incompatible with Supreme Court precedent and oth…
24-5637 Kyle Trevor Flack v. Kansas Kansas Denied IFP custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment miranda-rights objective-inquiry self-incrimination During a custodial interrogation, may police ignore an individual's repeated and unambiguous demands to 'cut off questioning'?
24-5646 Lisa Hofschulz, et vir v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law controlled-substances-act criminal-statute medical-standards mens-rea prescription-authorization Whether Congress delegated authority to the Attorney General to define 'effective prescription' under the Controlled Substances Act and whether a pres…
24-5659 Luis Angel Cruz-Cruz v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied IFP batson-challenge constitutional-law gender-bias jury-selection peremptory-strike racial-discrimination Whether expressly citing race or gender as a reason for a peremptory strike means the strike was motivated by discriminatory intent under Batson v. Ke…
24-5678 Reginald L. Hopkins v. United States Third Circuit Denied IFP federal-prosecution ruse-exception speedy-trial-act state-arrest statutory-interpretation third-circuit Whether the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit erred in rejecting a 'Ruse Exception' to the Speedy Trial Act for state arrests leading to federal …
24-5690 Rayzjaun Curry v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearm-possession gun-rights second-amendment Whether the federal statute criminalizing firearm possession by a felon is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment
24-5722 Buta Singh v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied IFP custody-determination eighth-circuit miranda-warning ninth-circuit tenth-circuit terry-stop Whether courts must apply the second step of Howes to determine if a person is 'in custody' for Miranda purposes
24-573 Coleman County, Texas v. Patsy K. Cope, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived bell-v-wolfish detainee-suicide fifth-circuit monell-standard municipal-liability qualified-immunity Does a Bell v. Wolfish claim for detainee suicide allow a plaintiff to bypass the traditional Monell test for imposing municipal liability, and does s…
24-5744 Andre Michael Dubois v. United States Eleventh Circuit GVR IFP constitutional-challenge due-process felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) unconstitutional on its face and as applied to a non-violent f…
24-5752 Norman Thurber v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied IFP criminal-responsibility federal-criminal-law intent mens-rea scienter statutory-interpretation Whether there is a mens rea requirement for Scienter in 18 U.S.C. Section 2251
24-5754 Azibo Aquart v. United States Second Circuit Denied IFP charging-statute district-court-jurisdiction federal-criminal-prosecution indictment-defect jurisdictional-error mandate-rule Whether a defect in an indictment is categorically a non-jurisdictional error, even if the indictment alleges conduct beyond the scope of the charging…
24-5759 Andrew John Delaney v. Gregory Messer, Chapter 7 Trustee Second Circuit Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction bankruptcy-court chapter-7 circuit-split final-order voluntary-dismissal Whether a bankruptcy court's denial of a debtor's motion to voluntarily dismiss a Chapter 7 case is a final appealable order under 28 U.S.C. § 158
24-5760 James Taylor v. McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP 11th-circuit-precedent debt-collection debt-collector fair-debt-collection-practices-act legal-standing statutory-interpretation Whether McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC qualifies as a debt collector under 15 U.S.C. § 1692a(6) and is subject to Fair Debt Collection Practices A…
24-5768 James H. Roane v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied IFP categorical-approach criminal-statute force-clause racketeering-enterprise VICAR-statute violent-force When a § 924(c) conviction is predicated on a VICAR offense, must a reviewing court apply the categorical approach to the state or federal statute und…
24-5771 Kyle Christopher Zoellner v. City of Arcata, California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering fourth-amendment probable-cause sixth-amendment Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's judgment regarding probable cause for arrest and the constitutional implications of …
24-5779 Allan Leslie Sinanan, Jr. v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied IFP appellate-procedure court-discretion error-waiver legal-interpretation procedural-rules rule-of-law Whether the Commonwealth Court abused its discretion by applying Pa.R.A.P. 302(a) to conclude waiver of error, conflicting with Pa.R.A.P. 1925 and pro…
24-5780 Alex Ryle v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing Whether multiple convictions and sentences for possessing one loaded firearm violate the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause
24-5784 Samreen Riaz v. Superior Court of California, Tulare County, et al. California Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias jury-trial motion-to-vacate writ-of-mandate Did the California Supreme Court and lower courts err in denying petitioner's writs and motions, potentially violating constitutional rights under the…
24-5785 Bernard Ross Hansen and Diane Renee Erdmann v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied IFP criminal-fraud federal-statute mail-fraud property-deception statutory-interpretation wire-fraud Whether a scheme to induce a transaction in property through deception, without harm to any property interest, constitutes a scheme to defraud under f…
24-5788 Nico Allen-Antonio Cogdill v. Texas Texas Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-due-process trial-counsel Whether a prisoner has a right to effective counsel in collateral proceedings which provide the first occasion to raise a claim of ineffective assista…
24-579 Peter J. Strauss v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived ethics-commission expert-affidavit fifth-amendment judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal procedural-due-process Must a district court judge recuse himself when an expert affidavit challenges his impartiality after reporting a criminal defendant's attorney to an …
24-5796 Deandre Arnold v. Chad Chronister, Sheriff, Hillsborough County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias prosecutorial-immunity standing Whether a petitioner lacks standing to sue a Sheriff's Office for alleged First and Fourteenth Amendment rights violations and whether a conspiracy to…
24-5797 Deandre Arnold v. Tyarielle Patterson Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP child-custody-order diversity-jurisdiction domestic-relations-exception emotional-distress judicial-disqualification parental-interference Whether a claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress concerning parental interference in a child custody dispute is barred under the Domes…
24-580 Richard Cotromano, et al. v. RTX Corporation Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion daubert-standard dose-reconstruction environmental-exposure expert-testimony gatekeeping-function Whether the abuse of discretion standard requires the Circuit Courts to assess whether a trial court performed its gatekeeping function adequately rat…
24-5803 Sharif A. Eltawil v. Tammy L. Campbell, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law constitutional-claim due-process federal-jurisdiction legal-procedure statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24-5805 Ernest Adimora-Nweke v. Steven C. McCraw, Director, Texas Department of Public Safety, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law class-action public-safety standing statutory-warning texas-dps Whether Petitioner and similarly situated class members lack standing to challenge Statutory Warning DIC-24 Department of Public Safety forms promulga…
24-5808 Cyrus Hazari v. Court of Appeal of California, Sixth Appellate District, et al. California Denied IFP ada-accommodation disability-discrimination federal-preemption judicial-standard legal-remedy pro-se-litigant Whether a federal judge can set a uniform national standard for ADA accommodation and preempt state court rules, and whether California courts systema…
24-5810 Andre Wilburn v. Virginia Nguyen, et al. Second Circuit Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-defect in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion oath-of-office pro-se-prisoner Whether a district court errs when dismissing a pro se prisoner's complaint without leave to amend for futility reasons when defects could be cured, a…
24-5812 Timothy Robert Petrozzi v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional-law judicial-review legal-procedure precedent statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24-5816 Terrance A. Burlison v. Jerry W. Benefield, dba Green Oaks Manor Mobile Home Park Florida Denied IFP appellate-procedure dismissal due-process florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment procedural-rules Whether the Florida Supreme Court violated the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause by entering an order of dismissal before the time prescribed …
24-5824 Oscar Alvarado v. Ken Hollibaugh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause harmless-error ineffective-counsel rule-60b1 sixth-amendment Did the court of appeals commit legal error in denying petitioner's certificate of appealability by finding that a jurist of reason would not debate t…
24-5828 Stanley Lorenzo Williams v. North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection felons lifetime-ban second-amendment Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause prohibits a state lifetime ban on Second Amendment rights for felons, particularly in light…
24-5830 Derek Tyler Horton v. Alabama Alabama Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement pretextual-arrest probable-cause warrant-execution Whether a police officer's reason for acting should factor into the Fourth Amendment inquiry and whether an arrest can be considered lawful when circu…
24-5831 Colby Dranoel Leonard v. Keith Cooley, Warden, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights court-procedure judicial-error legal-defect petition-review pro-se-litigation Whether the Federal Court erred in ordering demonstrative defects in a pro se litigant's petition alleging constitutional rights violations
24-5832 Darren Deon Johnson v. Michigan Michigan Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-5835 Jaylin Godbolt v. California California Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-grounds Whether the California Supreme Court's denial of a writ of habeas corpus based on procedural grounds violated the appellant's constitutional right to …
24-5842 Dallas Staden v. Marcus Myers, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied IFP fair-trial hybrid-counsel ineffective-assistance pro-se-representation sixth-amendment standby-counsel Whether a pro se defendant's hybrid representation and standby counsel's participation violate the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to counsel and fa…
24-5843 Jerome R. Sueing v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-procedure Whether the trial court violated Petitioner's due process rights by joining unrelated cases and improperly admitting prejudicial testimony
24-5845 Jackie Robinson v. Jerry Spatny, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation federal-statute judicial-interpretation remedies section-1983 Whether the lower court's interpretation of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 improperly limits civil rights remedies for constitutional violations
24-5846 Andrey L. Bridges v. Patricia Blackmon, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-deprivation due-process eleventh-amendment government-immunity section-1983 Whether courts should resolve the longstanding conflict regarding the right to sue government officials in their individual or official capacity for d…
24-5847 Albert Anderson v. Winston Salem Police Department, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-standard case-precedent court-decision judicial-discretion legal-reasoning procedural-review Whether the lower court abused its discretion in rendering an unreasoned decision that fails to adequately address multiple legal precedents
24-585 Kevin J. Patten, et al. v. Travis S. Sweigart Third Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-review catastrophic-injuries circuit-split federal-rules-civil-procedure third-circuit trial-bifurcation Whether the Third Circuit's imposition of a categorical rule against bifurcation of trials involving catastrophic injuries violates the letter and spi…
24-5853 Chad William Reed v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution due-process procedural-protections second-amendment self-defense Whether the method of criminal prosecution violates a citizen's Second Amendment right of self-defense and due process protections under the Constitut…
24-5854 Tabitha Ward v. New York Police Department Headquarters License Division New York Denied IFP article-78-proceeding bruen-ruling constitutional-rights due-process firearms-license second-amendment Did the New York State Court of Appeals and Appellate Division improperly deny a firearms license application by disregarding the Bruen ruling and fed…
24-5855 Andrew Fields v. New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-appeal ineffective-counsel legal-procedure trial-court Question not identified.
24-5856 Anthony Shane Martin v. Erin Gaffney, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process first-amendment qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing plaintiff's case through summary judgment, misapplying legal standards related to qualified immunity, due…
24-5865 Reginald Donell Rice v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief Whether a state court's denial of post-conviction relief based on ineffective assistance of counsel claims violates a criminal defendant's constitutio…
24-5873 In Re Dana Albrecht Denied IFP criminal-influence judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal mandamus official-communication Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald to disclose details of a conversation regarding Justice Anna Barbara …
24-5874 Alonzo Cortez Johnson v. William "Chris" Rankins, Warden Tenth Circuit Denied IFP batson-challenge habeas-corpus jury-selection procedural-defense racial-discrimination tenth-circuit-ruling Does Jennings v. Stephens permit raising procedural defenses on remand after a Batson challenge in a criminal jury selection case?
24-5875 Dennis Ray Davis, Jr. v. Caddo Department of Public Works, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights federal-courts legal-notice personal-injury property-rights statute-of-limitations Whether lower federal courts should apply Louisiana's one-year personal injury statute of limitations and give effect to Louisiana's special reviews i…
24-5877 Holston Banks, III v. John H. Spence Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights district-court eighth-amendment judicial-error legal-framing pleading-rules Did the district court commit judicial error by dismissing a complaint based on legal framing when the factual allegations supported an Eighth Amendme…
24-5879 In Re Henry B. Berrocal Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-5886 Richard A. Cantu, Jr. v. Texas Texas Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legal-precedent statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24-5889 Eric Volk v. Martin J. O'Malley, Commissioner of Social Security Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
24-5896 Matthew Myke v. Wisconsin Wisconsin Denied Response WaivedIFP character-evidence criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance sexual-assault trial-strategy witness-testimony Whether failure to advise an accused about testifying and developing character evidence constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel in a sexual assa…
24-5897 Justin Jermaine Johnson v. Stephen Duncan, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-admission harmless-error mistrial witness-testimony Whether the admission of investigator testimony via Skype, pre-death victim photos, and denial of mistrial constitute harmless error or violate due pr…
24-590 Brian Kelsey v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived appellate-review circuit-split error-preservation judicial-procedure plea-agreement preservation-standard What must one say to preserve an error for appellate review and does Holguin-Hernandez apply beyond sentencing reasonableness?
24-5901 Lamont Fitch v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure extraterritorial-claims international-jurisdiction personal-injury supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether the U.S. Supreme Court has jurisdiction to hear a case involving personal injury claims arising from actions outside the United States
24-5904 Allen Ward Cox v. Florida Florida Denied IFP brain-damage cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment evolving-standards medical-condition mental-impairment Whether the Petitioner's medical condition involving brain damage and dementia constitutes cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment bas…
24-5907 Aisha Wright v. Transportation Communication Union/IAM Fifth Circuit Denied IFP circuit-split habeas-corpus judicial-discretion preclusion-principles procedural-defect rule-60b Whether a federal court can apply preclusion principles to bar new claims when prior proceedings were not fully litigated
24-5911 Samuel T. Whatley, et al. v. Medical University of South Carolina Fourth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process elder-care federal-jurisdiction healthcare-protections judicial-oversight Whether the Constitution provides protective health care rights for elderly and disabled individuals and allows judicial relief for violations of thos…
24-5912 David C. Lettieri v. Paul E. Bonanno, et al. Second Circuit Denied IFP absolute-immunity case-assignment due-process judicial-function jurisdictional-challenge prosecutorial-misconduct Whether absolute immunity shields prosecutors and judges from liability for fabricating evidence and potential jurisdictional overreach
24-5915 Willie D. Orr v. Zorian Trusewych, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review district-court in-forma-pauperis legal-procedure motion-to-proceed summary-judgment Did the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois err when granting defendants' summary judgment motion, and did the Seventh Circuit Co…
24-5916 Javance Mickey Wilson v. California California Denied IFP capital-sentencing constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure death-penalty jury-findings reasonable-doubt Does California's capital-sentencing scheme violate the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments by failing to require jury factual findings for death …
24-592 Katia Gauthier, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Peter Gauthier, and as Parent and Natural Guardian of Minors D.G. and N.G. v. Total Quality Logistics, LLC Eleventh Circuit Denied freight-broker-liability motor-carrier-preemption negligent-hiring safety-exception transportation-regulation wrongful-death-claim Whether a wrongful death or personal injury claim against a freight broker based on negligent hiring of an unsafe motor carrier falls within the safet…
24-5920 Robert Lee Wright, III v. Martin A. Fitzpatrick, Magistrate Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP civil-action constitutional-provisions federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-writ legal-citizenship pro-se Question not identified.
24-5923 Justin Martinez v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-5924 Elliot Morales v. New York New York Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process right-to-counsel sentencing-exposure trial-court-procedure waiver Does a criminal trial court violate Iowa v. Tovar in failing to advise a defendant of his potential sentencing exposure before waiving right to trial …
24-5925 Francis Yomi v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP discovery-dispute judicial-misconduct motion-to-stay procedural-rules protective-order sanctions-motion Whether the District and Circuit Courts erred in dismissing the plaintiff's case and denying multiple motions for procedural and medical reasons
24-5929 David Mark Fink v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP evidentiary-hearing faretta-right judicial-discretion pro-se-representation sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether a trial court improperly revoked a defendant's pro se status during an evidentiary hearing and violated Sixth Amendment speedy trial rights
24-5930 Anthony Tawon Williams v. Georgia Georgia Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment merger-errors sentencing Whether a criminal defendant's sentence violates the Fourteenth Amendment's due process rights when the trial court refuses to correct merger errors a…
24-5932 Carlos Ruben Zuniga v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
24-5936 Samuel Lee Jones, Jr. v. Michael Wheeler Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts constitutional-violation habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default rule-60b6 Does the District Court and Fifth Circuit's ruling conflict with Supreme Court precedents regarding ineffective assistance of counsel claims, appointm…
24-5942 Garry Wayne Wilson v. Carrie Bridges, Warden Tenth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation declaratory-relief federal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity state-official tribal-rights Whether state sovereign immunity bars a tribal member's lawsuit seeking declaratory relief against a state official
24-5946 James B. Crosby v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process federal-proceedings heck-bar injunction supremacy-clause younger-abstention Whether Younger abstention can be ignored when federal proceedings began before state proceedings and an injunction should be granted to prevent arres…
24-5955 John C. Coleman v. Ohio Ohio Denied IFP constitutional-rights dna-collection due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause warrant Whether the DNA obtained from a suspect without a warrant and without probable cause violates the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments' due process protec…
24-596 Aircraft Service International, Inc., et al. v. Danny Lopez Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived employment-contract federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent transportation-workers Whether workers who fuel airplanes, but who never directly or physically move interstate goods, are engaged in the interstate transportation of goods …
24-5961 James A. Bell v. Michele Dauzat, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness witness-vouching Whether a prosecutor's 'bolstering' of a witness's testimony constitutes an impermissible vouching exception and violates due process under the 14th A…
24-5962 Preston M. Young v. Angela Phams, Warden, et al. Georgia Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Does a defense attorney provide effective assistance of counsel as guaranteed under the Sixth Amendment when he fails to challenge an indictment or pr…
24-5963 Cameron Davon Wright v. James R. Schiebner, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting brecht-standard constitutional-error jury-verdict sufficiency-of-evidence trial-procedure Whether the lower court misapplied Brecht v. Abrahamson standard by using an incorrect sufficiency of evidence test that denied fundamental justice in…
24-5965 David C. Lettieri v. Department of Justice, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-justice administrative-law court-filing judicial-discretion legal-procedure procedural-rules Whether a judge can improperly restrict court filings and impede access to judicial process
24-5967 Robert Emert v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division One, et al. California Denied IFP access-to-justice due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment vexatious-litigant-statute Are the State of California courts at multiple levels violating self-represented litigants' constitutional rights to due process and equal protection …
24-5969 David Stephens v. Illinois Illinois Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-5970 Alma Rosales v. Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
24-5971 Maritza Ortiz v. Supreme Court of Puerto Rico Puerto Rico Denied IFP constitutional-rights ethics-rules first-amendment free-speech petitioning-redress strict-scrutiny Whether Puerto Rico's ethics rules, when applied to private speech while petitioning for redress, are subject to strict scrutiny under the First Amend…
24-5974 James Cobb Hutto, III v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied IFP capital-post-conviction competency-right constitutional-claim habeas-corpus mississippi-supreme-court psychological-assessment Whether a criminal defendant has a constitutional right to competency during state post-conviction capital proceedings
24-5975 James Franklin Snyder v. Russell Ross, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
24-5977 Sammy Lee Gibbs v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection judicial-recusal procedural-fairness state-court-jurisdiction Whether all judges in the United States are bound to follow the Constitution, whether state courts can deprive persons of life, liberty, or property w…
24-5978 In Re Marquis Deron Heard Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion federal-prisoner mandamus-relief pro-se-petition search-warrant sixth-circuit Whether a federal prisoner's multiple appeals of a 2255 motion and unresolved search warrant issues constitute grounds for mandamus relief
24-5979 Robert Seth Denton v. Chris Brun, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus petition-review procedural-error sixth-circuit state-remedies Did the Sixth Circuit err in denying permission to appeal a § 2254 petition when no state remedies were available to exhaust?
24-5980 Vernell Moore v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP district-court-discretion eighth-amendment methamphetamine-enhancement proportionality-of-punishment sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines Whether the District Court and Sixth Circuit erred in applying the 10:1 methamphetamine enhancement under U.S.S.G. §2D1.1 given potential constitution…
24-5981 Dimitar Petlechkov v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
24-5982 Benigno Perez-Aguilar v. Jeff Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP expert-testimony hearsay ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion witness-bolstering Did the trial court abuse its discretion in admitting expert testimony that allegedly bolstered witness testimony, and did trial counsel's errors viol…
24-5985 Tara Dawn Chapman v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services Tennessee Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act fundamental-rights guardianship mental-disability parental-rights state-court Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) applies to termination of parental rights cases and protects parents with mental disabilities from l…
24-5986 Patrick Bernard Smith v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review legal-procedure statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24-5991 Morgan Allen Armstrong v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP court-jurisdiction federal-court judicial-review jurisdictional-challenge legal-procedure Question not identified.
24-5995 Manuel Espinoza-Camacho v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors?
24-5996 Todd Norman v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance criminal-offense federal-law sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether an offense must have involved a substance that was controlled under federal law to be considered a 'controlled substance offense' under § 4B1.…
24-5998 Carlos Tonyo Cabrera v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process hearsay-evidence judicial-error prior-convictions procedural-due-process sentencing-scoresheet Whether a court violated a petitioner's due process rights by imposing life sentences based on an erroneous scoresheet using unsubstantiated prior con…
24-6000 Rafael Antonio Bracero-Navas v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography circuit-split federal-criminal-law lascivious-exhibition minor-protection statutory-interpretation Does secretly photographing a nude minor in ordinary bathroom activities constitute 'sexually explicit conduct' under federal child pornography statut…
24-6001 Keith Brian Hunter v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appointed-counsel criminal-justice-act escrow-account fifth-amendment sixth-circuit-court trust-account Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly expanded the definition of a client escrow/trust account and violated the Petitioner's Fifth Ame…
24-6002 Alfredo Viveros-Chavez v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP arlington-heights equal-protection fifth-amendment legislative-intent racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo…
24-6003 Sydni Frazier v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defendant first-degree-murder jury-trial predicate-offense sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Whether a criminal defendant's right to a jury trial under the Sixth Amendment is violated when the trial judge does not instruct the jury that it mus…
24-6005 Aaron Abadi v. Joseph R. Biden, President of the United States, et al. Second Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP concrete-injury constitutional-injury government-policy judicial-review pro-se-litigant standing Does a plaintiff have standing when they allege personal, concrete injuries stemming from government policies, even when such policies cause widely sh…
24-6006 Michael Tyrone Young v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-interpretation controlled-substances felony-disarmament gun-rights second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment as applied to an individual with nonviolent felony convictions for distributing controlled…
24-6009 Christian Guadalupe Contreras-Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation judicial-precedent legal-standard supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
24-6010 Carlos Cantizano v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appointed-counsel briefing-schedule court-of-appeals due-process legal-procedure motion-denial May the Court of Appeals withdraw the briefing schedule after approving a notice of appeal and deny a request for appointed counsel, thereby violating…
24-6013 Sherrie Clements v. Club Space Management, LLC, dba Club Space Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP ada-compliance cognitive-disability disability-discrimination equal-protection judicial-accommodation procedural-fairness Whether courts discriminate against individuals with cognitive disabilities in judicial proceedings and fail to provide adequate accommodations under …
24-6015 Tawanna Hilliard v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-statute first-amendment law-enforcement-protection overbreadth-doctrine retaliation statutory-interpretation Whether Section 1513(e) of Title 18 is facially overbroad, unconstitutionally vague, and violates First Amendment protections when applied to speech-b…
24-6016 Santiago Parks Howard-Rios 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 …
24-6017 Hanoi Hormachea v. Haridas Bhadja, in His Official Capacity as Chief Medical Officer at Okeechobee Correctional Institution Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-exhaustion civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment section-1983 Whether the Eleventh Circuit improperly dismissed an appeal when the petitioner had exhausted administrative remedies under Florida administrative reg…
24-6018 Timothy B. Fredrickson v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-delay habeas-corpus judicial-integrity property-return rule-33-motion rule-41(g) Whether public perception of judicial integrity is impacted by a judge affirming a conviction and later attempting to pass upon its validity; Whether …
24-602 Daniel Graff v. Brighthouse Life Insurance Company, aka Brighthouse Financial Life Insurance Company Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process federal-court-interpretation separation-of-powers state-law-deference statutory-construction Whether a Federal Court can interpret a state statute in a manner that extinguishes constitutional rights or upsets the separation of powers without a…
24-6020 Justin Rivera v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction federal-statute sentencing-guidelines sex-trafficking Whether the Second Circuit erred in affirming a sex trafficking conviction based on a sentencing guidelines interpretation that conflicts with the Nin…
24-6021 Samuel Boima v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-competency due-process governmental-interests involuntary-medication mental-health trial-fairness How should district courts decide whether a crime is 'serious' within the meaning of Sell?
24-6022 Leonard Contreras Sandoval v. Jamie Miller, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prejudice-analysis strickland-standard trial-counsel Whether a state court unreasonably applies the Strickland standard when evaluating habeas petitioner's ineffective assistance of counsel claim by fail…
24-6023 Leonardo Terrazas v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery law-enforcement search-and-seizure Whether the Fifth Circuit's application of the inevitable-discovery doctrine conflicts with Supreme Court precedent
24-6024 Rudolph Daniel Miffin, Jr. and Jermaine Darnell Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP automobile-exception fourth-amendment marijuana-decriminalization probable-cause vehicle-search warrantless-search Where a state has decriminalized simple possession of marijuana, can state and local police conduct a warrantless search of a vehicle based on the aut…
24-6028 Jawan Fortia v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split commerce-clause criminal-enterprise interstate-commerce rico-act vicar-act What proof is required to satisfy RICO and VICAR's interstate-commerce elements, and must prosecutors prove that an enterprise's activities in fact af…
24-6031 Haitham Yousef Alhindi v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP competency-determination criminal-procedure due-process insanity-defense-reform-act jackson-v-indiana statutory-interpretation Whether the four-month period for determining competency under 18 U.S.C. § 4241(d)(1) begins at commitment or upon arrival at a Bureau of Prisons hosp…
24-6034 David Lee Hering v. Iowa District Court, Muscatine County Iowa Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legislative-mandate Does the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments' due process of law guarantee apply to criminal sentencing when a district court refuses to impose a legislat…
24-6035 Jamel Muldrew v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-rules circuit-split constitutional-amendments judicial-factfinding sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the Supreme Court's Kisor v. Wilkie holding supports treating Sentencing Guidelines as agency rules requiring traditional statutory interpreta…
24-6039 Charles Derryberry v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-prosecution informant-tip law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure weapon-possession Should the Court require that the purpose of the informant's tip be true before it can be used to prosecute someone arising out of a stop?
24-6040 Graham L. Stowe v. Gregory Van Rybroek, Director, Mendota Mental Health Institute Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confinement due-process foucha-v-louisiana mental-institution ngi-acquittee not-mentally-ill Whether the Wisconsin court's decision is contrary to and an unreasonable application of Foucha v. Louisiana because it permits the state to confine N…
24-6041 Daniel Hampton v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-split claims-processing federal-rules jurisdictional-rules statutory-interpretation Whether Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure Rule 4(a)(4)(B)(ii) is jurisdictional or claims processing?
24-6044 Antonio Shropshire v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure government-seizure sixth-amendment testimonial-autonomy trial-preparation Were Shropshire's Sixth Amendment rights violated by the government's seizure of trial preparation documents and interference with his testimonial aut…
24-6045 Shawn M. Berila v. Tom Watson, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP district-court due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure procedural-rights report-and-recommendation Whether a petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process rights are violated when a district court does not allow an extension to object to a report an…
24-6047 Rodney Tyrone Henry v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553a accomplice-liability circuit-court-review criminal-procedure premeditation sentencing Whether the Eighth Circuit misapplied precedent regarding premeditation and accomplice liability in sentencing a defendant under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)
24-6048 Cheryl Christin Kissentaner v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split diaz-precedent evidentiary-standard federal-evidence-rule judicial-review legal-interpretation Should this Court clarify its prior decision in Diaz v. United States to resolve the ongoing circuit split concerning the interpretation of Federal Ev…
24-605 Jason Dee Taylor v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived criminal-statute federalism police-powers sex-trafficking states-rights tenth-amendment Whether the government's application of a federal criminal statute for sex trafficking to purely local prostitution violates states' traditional polic…
24-6051 Ralph Berry v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP cannabis-regulation circuit-court controlled-substances cross-border-transactions federal-law interstate-commerce Whether a Second Circuit ruling violates federal prohibitions on cross-border cannabis transactions and interstate commerce regulations
24-6052 Terius Thomas, aka Terius Brown, aka Terry Brown v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict judicial-review plain-error prejudice-standard sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights Whether the Eleventh Circuit has created a new exception to Molina-Martinez's plain error prejudice standard which conflicts with the general rule tha…
24-6056 Londell Bond v. Jasen Bohinski, Acting Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-analysis strickland-standard Does the 'probing and fact-specific analysis' mandated by Strickland v. Washington and Sears v. Upton require courts to weigh both the strengths and w…
24-6059 Lamel Miller v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
24-6060 Albert Trampis Dogskin v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver circuit-split false-information judicial-discretion plea-agreement sentencing-error Whether there is an exception to an appeal waiver in a plea agreement where the district court relied on false or unreliable information in sentencing
24-6061 Chadwick Smith v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure fifth-circuit-review firearms-conviction plain-error-review second-amendment Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that petitioner's argument challenging his federal firearms-related conviction under the Second Amendment c…
24-6062 Efe Clinton Osaghae v. Kansas Kansas Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-precedent blakely-rule criminal-procedure jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Does Blakely v. Washington establish an 'unpled but admitted facts' exception to Apprendi v. New Jersey's Sixth Amendment interpretation regarding jur…
24-6063 Benjamin Tyree Townsel v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) prohibiting firearm possession by persons with prior criminal convictions violates the Second Amendment and exceeds Cong…
24-6064 Johnny Nunez Garcia v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure de-novo-review firearm-possession second-amendment supervised-release Whether a term of supervised release prohibiting possession of firearms violates the Second Amendment?
24-6065 Joshua Austin Ward v. Kentucky Kentucky Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-procedure defendant-rights hybrid-representation pro-se waiver witness-selection Whether a pro se defendant's hybrid representation arrangement affects his right to determine witness selection, and if so, what constitutes a valid w…
24-6067 Jerrelle Quintrez Gladden v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defense fifth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant sixth-amendment-right witness-exclusion May a district court exclude a defense witness when he will invoke the Fifth Amendment in response to certain questions but undisputedly will answer a…
24-6068 Marlon Maurice Winborn v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-activity fourth-amendment informant-tip law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-inference Does the Fourth Amendment require that even a reliable informant provide police with sufficient information to allow an officer to reasonably infer th…
24-6069 In Re Christian D. Womack Dismissed IFP bureau-of-prisons constitutional-rights due-process federal-commitment judicial-order personal-liberty Does the Federal Bureau of Prisons' commitment order violate an individual's constitutional right to personal liberty when imprisonment is based on of…
24-6072 John Rogers v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defendant-conduct Does U.S.S.G. §3E1.1 apply when a defendant has vo plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction voluntary-termination Whether the two clauses in 18 U.S.C. §924(c) creates two separate crimes or a single crime and whether the conflation of the elements of the two disti…
24-6076 Reginald Wright v. Virginia Department of Child Support Enforcement, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP child-support constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction legal-proceedings Did the false information and improper jurisdiction in a child support case violate the petitioner's constitutional due process and civil rights?
24-6077 Christian Ricardo Carrillo Topete v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation Whether a sentencing court should consult Chapter 109A offenses when determining a Chapter 110 sentencing enhancement for prior sexual abuse convictio…
24-6078 Michael Andrew Peterson v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions extraordinary-circumstances jurisdiction legal-opinion petition supreme-court Question not identified.
24-6080 Victor Manuel Ramirez v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights fourth-amendment police-inquiry reasonable-suspicion seizure-duration traffic-stop Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in creating a bright-line rule permitting police to lengthen a traffic stop by inquiring about a driver's parole or pr…
24-6081 Christopher Zamarripa v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement sentencing sixth-amendment Whether Zamarripa was denied effective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment when his counsel advised him to accept a plea agreement that wa…
24-6082 Rhobashi Holmes v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP congressional-power constitutional-rights felony-restrictions firearms-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) unconstitutional as a violation of individual rights and congr…
24-6083 Joshua Flores v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution jury-trial misdemeanor sixth-amendment Whether Article III and the Sixth Amendment guarantee a jury trial for petty misdemeanors
24-6086 Curtis James McGarvey v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lasciviousness-standard sexual-exploitation sixth-amendment Whether the application of the Dost factors is appropriate in determining the lasciviousness standard for attempted sexual exploitation of a minor und…
24-6089 Recardo Cartrell Pierce v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-standard constitutional-challenge federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022)?
24-6097 Alfredo Alvarado-Varela v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres apprendi 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…
24-6098 Timothy R. Brown v. Massachusetts Massachusetts Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-resentencing double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment reasonable-doubt Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires retroactive application of a new rule of law in criminal resentencing, and whether cons…
24-6101 Halim Khan v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-prosecution due-process interpreter-testimony sixth-amendment testimonial-statements Whether translated out-of-court testimonial statements may be admitted without violating the Confrontation Clause when an interpreter is deemed an age…
24-6103 Christopher Gonzales v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause congressional-power criminal-law felony-prohibition firearms-possession second-amendment Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession by felons violate the Second Amendment and can Congress criminalize intrastate firearm…
24-6104 Maurice Kerrick, Jr. v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process maximum-term sixth-amendment supervised-release Whether a defendant's due process rights are violated when he is never informed that he may be sentenced to an additional term of imprisonment for vio…
24-6105 Ryan Lewis Hilyard v. Wyoming Wyoming Denied Response WaivedIFP effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence fourteenth-amendment procedural-default strickland-standard Did the Wyoming Supreme Court apply federal rules of evidence correctly and deny Mr. Hilyard's Fourteenth Amendment right to effective assistance of c…
24-6108 Sixto Jorge Diaz-Colon v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment procedural-rules sixth-amendment Whether an appellate court violates due process by dismissing an appeal based solely on procedural deficiencies without addressing substantial constit…
24-6109 Kevin Lewis and Otis Ponds v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure department-of-justice evidence-standard statutory-interpretation title-iii wiretap-authorization What evidence must the government present in a wiretap application to establish that an authorized official approved the application, and what is the …
24-6111 Junior Standly Martinez-Martinez v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure indictment judicial-review legal-error motion-to-dismiss Whether the denial of Mr. Martinez's motion to dismiss the indictment was erroneous
24-6112 Dekeilon Marquel Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender circuit-split federal-sentencing predicate-offense rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines Whether a career offender sentence should be determined based on predicate crimes at the time of sentencing or time of conviction given the current Ci…
24-6114 Davis Ennis v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy-statute drug-quantity judicial-fact-finding mandatory-minimum rule-of-lenity sixth-amendment Whether judicial fact-finding of drug quantity for an enhanced mandatory minimum sentence violates the Sixth Amendment when the defendant and governme…
24-6132 In Re David Charles Thatcher Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-violation criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ninth-circuit successive-petition Whether Mr. Thatcher's actual innocence and constitutional violations require vacatur of his petition and whether the Ninth Circuit's refusal to grant…
24-6135 Chad Malone v. Frank Vanihel Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions court-jurisdiction judicial-review legal-procedure statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24-6148 Ronald Lee Neels v. Bob Dooley, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default Whether a federal district court's denial of a habeas petition based on procedural grounds constitutes a violation of the defendant's constitutional r…
24-625 Elana Thibault v. State Bar of California California Denied Response Waived attorney-discipline due-process fourteenth-amendment professional-misconduct property-interest state-bar Does the suspension from practice of law and imposition of monetary sanctions by methods that deviate from the prescribed means and offend the sense o…
24-627 Scuderia Development, LLC, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived court-procedure ethnic-discrimination fair-trial jury-selection racial-bias voir-dire Whether the district court's refusal to ask defense-requested voir dire questions about potential anti-Asian and Chinese bias denied Petitioners a fai…
24-629 Petrobras America, Incorporated v. Samsung Heavy Industries Company, Limited Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-action direct-relation injury-standard proximate-cause rico-act What is the appropriate standard for assessing a direct relation between the injury asserted and the injurious conduct alleged under RICO, and can pro…
24-638 Mehdi Moini v. Ellen M. Granberg, in Her Official Capacity as President of George Washington University District of Columbia Denied Response Waived academic-tenure employment-discrimination race-discrimination retaliation-theory section-1981 similarly-situated Whether a Middle-Eastern Iranian is considered a race under §1981 and what evidence is needed to prove racial discrimination in academic tenure decisi…
24-641 Gavin de Becker, et al. v. UHS of Delaware, Inc., dba Desert Springs Hospital Medical Center Nevada Denied Response Waived covered-countermeasure healthcare-immunity medical-liability medical-negligence prep-act treatment-standards Does the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act of 2005 provide immunity to medical providers for acts and omissions not directly related to …
24-71 Avraham Goldstein, et al. v. Professional Staff Congress/CUNY, et al. Second Circuit Denied Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) anti-semitism compelled-association exclusive-representation expressive-activities first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association religious-freedom state-prohibition union union-representation Whether it violates the First Amendment for a state to prohibit individuals from dissociating from a union's representation to protest that union's ex…
24-73 Sherry L. Burt, et al. v. Jimmie Leon Gordon Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) constitutional-rights covid-19 pandemic-response precedent prison-conditions prison-officials qualified-immunity sixth-circuit Did the Sixth Circuit improperly deny qualified immunity to prison officials based on their response to the unprecedented COVID-19 global pandemic?
24-77 GeLab Cosmetics LLC v. Zhuhai Aobo Cosmetics Co., Ltd., et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) abstention circuit-split civil-procedure colorado-river-doctrine federal-abstention federal-courts judicial-proceedings parallel-proceedings procedural-stay state-court-litigation Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's stay of federal proceedings under the Colorado River doctrine
24A241 John Dwayne Garvin v. Levern Cohen, Warden Fourth Circuit Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge declaratory-judgment due-process grand-jury habeas-corpus Whether a state court's refusal to entertain a declaratory judgment challenging grand jury proceedings violates a petitioner's due process rights when…
24A415 Richard Rynn, et al. v. Daniel Washburn, et al. Arizona Presumed Complete child-custody constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte-injunction parental-rights state-court Whether a state court can issue an ex parte child custody injunction without notice when there is no showing of imminent harm to the child
24A440 John Stockton, et al. v. Robert Ferguson, Attorney General of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete constitutional-protection covid-19 first-amendment government-censorship physician-speech strict-scrutiny Whether the First Amendment protects physicians' public speech on COVID-19 from government investigation and potential disciplinary action under stric…
24M46 Erin Jones v. City of New York, New York Second Circuit Presumed Complete None
24M47 John Doe v. University of Iowa, et al. Eighth Circuit Presumed Complete None
24M48 Erik Cooper v. Tennessee, et al. Tennessee Presumed Complete Relisted (2) None
24M49 Christopher Burnell v. United States Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete Relisted (2) None
24M50 Reyes Espinoza v. United States Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete Relisted (2) None
24M51 Hazem Garada v. District of Columbia Board of Medicine District of Columbia Presumed Complete None
24M52 John Xavier Portillo v. United States Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete Relisted (2) None
24M53 A. B. v. Florida Department of Children and Families Florida Presumed Complete Relisted (2) None