Conference: 2025-01-24

90 cases — 0 granted, 90 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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23-7575 Oscar Dillon, III v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acquittal acquitted-conduct criminal-culpability double-jeopardy federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment rule-404(b) trial-procedure unrelated-charges Whether the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits the introduction of acquitted criminal conduct under Rule 404(b) in a separate trial wh…
24-218 Damon Balar Cook v. Patrick Covello, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court-judgment due-process insufficiency-of-evidence rule-60(b)(4) Whether the district court's 2002 judgment is void under Rule 60(b)(4) due to a violation of due process by denying the petitioner an opportunity to b…
24-259 Eric Alan Isaacson v. Meta Platforms, Inc., fka Facebook, Inc. Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-fees class-action common-fund lodestar representative-plaintiffs settlement-funds May district courts approve payments from class-action settlement funds to reward and encourage litigants for service as representative plaintiffs?
24-299 Kent Knox Johnson v. Superior Court of California, El Dorado County, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-misconduct due-process equal-protection jurisdiction llc-law racketeering Is material fraud by attorneys purporting to be agents of an unregistered LLC law firm in a California Court insubstantial?
24-304 Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, dba Labcorp v. Luke Davis, et al. Ninth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (23)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) article-iii certification class-action federal-court injury-in-fact standing Whether a federal court may certify a class action when some of its members lack any Article III injury
24-362 Curtrina Martin, Individually and as Parent and Next Friend of G. W., a Minor, et al. v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (13)Relisted (3) federal-tort-claims-act law-enforcement-proviso negligent-act sovereign-immunity supremacy-clause wrong-house-raid Whether the Constitution's Supremacy Clause and the FTCA's exception bar tort claims for negligent federal law enforcement actions during a wrong-hous…
24-391 Felipe Petrone-Cabanas v. Arizona Arizona Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-procedure jones-v-mississippi juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing-discretion Whether juveniles may be sentenced to life without parole under a system that did not afford the sentencing court discretion to choose any lesser opti…
24-394 Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board, et al. v. Gentner Drummond, Attorney General of Oklahoma, ex rel. Oklahoma Oklahoma Judgment Issued Amici (2)Relisted (3) charter-schools educational-rights establishment-clause free-exercise-clause religious-discrimination state-action Whether a state violates the Free Exercise Clause by excluding privately run religious schools from a charter-school program solely based on religious…
24-396 St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Gentner Drummond, Attorney General of Oklahoma, ex rel. Oklahoma Oklahoma Judgment Issued Relisted (3) charter-schools establishment-clause free-exercise-clause pedagogical-choice religious-discrimination state-action Whether a state violates the Free Exercise Clause by excluding privately run religious schools from the state's charter school program solely because …
24-421 Cynthia Davis, Warden v. David M. Smith Sixth Circuit Denied Relisted (3) aedpa constitutional-violation due-process eyewitness-identification habeas-corpus sixth-circuit Did the Sixth Circuit exceed its powers under AEDPA in concluding that 'every fairminded jurist would agree' that the Ohio court violated the Constitu…
24-445 Samuel Kinuthia Gicharu v. Antone Moniz, Superintendent, Plymouth County Correctional Facility First Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) None
24-452 Louis Frantzis v. Todd B. Hunter, Acting Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit Denied Amici (2) administrative-law board-of-veterans-appeals credibility-determination due-process hearing-procedure veterans-benefits Whether a Board member who conducts a veterans benefits hearing must be the same Board member who makes the credibility determination in the claim
24-453 Emmanuel G. Louis, Jr., et al. v. Bluegreen Vacations Unlimited, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Amici (2) article-iii-standing contract-enforcement federal-jurisdiction judicial-review restitution void-contract Do plaintiffs who paid money under a void contract have Article III standing to challenge the enforcement of that contract and seek restitution of the…
24-456 Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. v. Beth Bacher, Representative for Paul Bacher, Deceased, et al. Second Circuit Denied class-action-fairness-act federal-removal mass-action statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-consolidation Whether plaintiffs' intent matters in assessing if plaintiffs have 'proposed' a joint trial of the claims of 100 or more persons pursuant to 28 U.S.C.…
24-486 William B. Walton, et al. v. Neskowin Regional Sanitary Authority Oregon Denied Response Waived fifth-amendment just-compensation physical-occupation property-rights statute-of-limitations takings-clause Whether a Constitutional Fifth Amendment Takings Claim, based on a physical occupation, fully accrues and the statute of limitations begins to run bef…
24-5207 E. C. v. Q. T. Texas Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-liberties constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial judicial-review legal-procedure witnesses Whether the petitioner was denied due process when the trial court failed to allow him to present witnesses and evidence in his defense, thereby depri…
24-5339 Seth Elred Perricone v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit sentencing a defendant based on acquitted conduct
24-5460 Troy L. Fields v. Colorado Colorado GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing fifth-amendment habitual-criminal prior-convictions sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights were violated when he was subjected to an increased maximum sentence based on the trial court's …
24-5508 Jason J. Dominick v. Tina Walker, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette Third Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP blood-pattern-analysis forensic-evidence ineffective-assistance prejudice-analysis strickland-standard trial-counsel Whether the lower courts applied an erroneous standard for determining prejudice under Strickland v. Washington when assessing the impact of trial cou…
24-5518 Mark E. Brown v. Unified School District No. 501 Tenth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP burden-shifting-analysis civil-rights employment-discrimination retaliation section-1981 section-1983 Whether a plaintiff was required to file a Section 1981 claim instead of a Section 1983 claim in an employment discrimination case
24-560 Dennis Hopkins, et al. v. Michael Watson, Mississippi Secretary of State Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) constitutional-law eighth-amendment equal-protection felony-disenfranchisement fourteenth-amendment voting-rights Does Mississippi's lifetime felony disenfranchisement scheme violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishments?
24-565 Linnea W. v. Matthew P. New York Denied constitutional-rights counsel-representation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-fees state-court-procedure May a state court contravene its own state laws requiring legal fees and counsel representation, potentially violating the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendm…
24-567 In Re Martin Akerman Denied appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process mandamus rule-39.8 second-amendment Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in denying mandamus and whether the Supreme Court's application of Rule 39.8 violated due process and obstructed acc…
24-572 Reginald Pittman, By and Through His Guardian and Next Friend, Robin M. Hamilton, v. Madison County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied due-process evidence-exclusion fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction pre-trial-detainee Did the Circuit Court improperly impair the plaintiff's due process right to a fair trial by sustaining the jury's verdict and failing to order a new …
24-574 Nikolai Belov v. East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived court-procedure judicial-intervention legal-review motion-to-intervene ninth-circuit procedural-due-process Did the Ninth Circuit err in denying a motion to intervene without receiving party responses and without thoroughly analyzing the arguments within two…
24-578 Corey Cunningham, on Behalf of Kodi Gaines, a Minor v. Baltimore County, Maryland, et al. Maryland Denied Amici (2) None Question not identified.
24-5793 Derek Don Posey v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP acquittal-standard case-law evidence-admissibility judicial-precedent procedural-review ultimate-issue Whether evidence which resulted in acquittal should have been deemed inadmissible based on a prior acquittal's determination of an ultimate issue cont…
24-583 Xunhui Cheng, et al. v. Dan Liu, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response Waived certification civil-procedure class-action equity-jurisdiction property-rights stolen-property Did the Court of Appeals err in denying plaintiffs' application to certify a conventional class action seeking return of property stolen by defendants…
24-586 Peyman Roshan v. Melanie J. Lawrence, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-enforcement constitutional-standing federal-courts ninth-circuit state-proceedings younger-abstention At what point or points in time should federal courts analyze the factors for application of Younger abstention?
24-588 Cyrus Mark Sanai v. Melanie J. Lawrence, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-review federal-jurisdiction party-presentation state-proceedings younger-abstention Whether the Ninth Circuit's sua sponte application of Younger abstention violates the party presentation principle and improperly evaluates federal co…
24-589 Allco Renewable Energy Limited, et al. v. Agency of Natural Resources, et al. Vermont Denied Response Waived administrative-enforcement civil-penalties public-utility-commission renewable-energy seventh-amendment site-preparation Whether statutory provisions empowering the Vermont Public Utility Commission to initiate and adjudicate administrative enforcement proceedings seekin…
24-5906 John Esposito v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Georgia Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus judicial-fact-finding jury-misconduct Does the Due Process Clause require a more rigorous standard of review for judicial fact-finding beyond Georgia's 'any evidence' standard?
24-595 William L. Harris v. City of Kent, Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment stare-decisis Whether a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the dismissal of a case involving alleged violations of Supreme Court precedent an…
24-6004 In Re Aliyah Monroe Denied IFP child-custody due-process emergency-order-of-protection jurisdiction parental-rights uniform-child-custody-jurisdiction-enforcement-act Whether a state court's child custody determination violates due process and jurisdictional requirements when modifying an out-of-state emergency orde…
24-6019 In Re Anthony Norman Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-rights court-obstruction federal-review judicial-misconduct mandamus-relief Whether the Supreme Court should issue a permanent injunction against state courts that have created an absolute bar to seeking Supreme Court review t…
24-6025 Kecia Porter v. Jennifer Navarro, et al. Illinois Denied IFP arbitration color-of-law coram-non-judice due-process equal-protection jurisdiction Whether a court under color of law violates the petitioner's 14th Amendment rights by ruling on matters outside its jurisdiction without proper legal …
24-6026 Ana Ortiz, aka Ana Lopez v. Circuit Court of Illinois, Lake County Illinois Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process family-court fourteenth-amendment legal-representation sixth-amendment Does the absence of counsel and transcripts in family court proceedings violate constitutional due process rights under the Fourteenth and Sixth Amend…
24-6029 Glenna Duram v. Jeremy Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance trial-procedure Whether the trial court violated constitutional due process by admitting unfairly prejudicial hearsay evidence from an internet website and whether de…
24-6030 Kenneth R. Talley, et al. v. Darren Horn, et al. Delaware Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process indigent-rights judicial-authority legal-representation state-jurisdiction Whether state law can usurp the United States Constitution in a case involving an indigent and illiterate citizen's legal representation
24-6033 Frederico Bruno v. Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability district-court evidentiary-hearing judicial-review third-circuit Whether the District Court and Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in refusing to issue a certificate of appealability and granting an evidentiary he…
24-6036 Antonio Medina v. Microsoft Corporation, et al. California Denied IFP circuit-split court-sealed-documents first-amendment immunity publication-rights section-230 Whether the Supreme Court should resolve the circuit split regarding immunity under Section 230 of Title 47 of the United States Code and First Amendm…
24-6049 Mario Ray Childs v. Jeff Tanner, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions self-defense Whether petitioner was denied his constitutional right to a fair trial and effective assistance of counsel due to trial counsel's inactions and failur…
24-6050 Lolita Barthel v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection juvenile-offender sentence-review Whether juvenile offenders are entitled to sentence review under the Eighth Amendment and Equal Protection Clause when serving consecutive sentences
24-6075 Lamar Williams v. Alyeska Seafoods, Inc. Alaska Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violations fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment government-funding labor-law Whether the plaintiff seeks judicial review of potential constitutional and labor law violations by Alyeska Seafood company and government agencies
24-6079 Lance Hullum v. Massachusetts Massachusetts Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process evidence-standard judicial-review jury-verdict legal-prejudice Whether a jury's verdict can be overturned when critical evidence is deemed erroneous and potentially prejudicial against the petitioner
24-608 Daniel Montes, Jr. v. Bertha A. Tibbs Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure claim-assignment federal-rules jurisdiction precedent-conflict summary-judgment Whether the Fifth Circuit's decision conflicts with Supreme Court precedents regarding absolute claim transfers and summary judgment procedures
24-6084 Christopher Roalson v. Jon Noble, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause evidence-preservation forensic-evidence Whether a state's forensic evidence preservation statute that allows destruction of evidence after a specified time period is consistent with a crimin…
24-6127 Jocelyn Lisa Doyle v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law employment-discrimination judicial-review prohibited-personnel-practice reinstatement whistleblower-protection Whether the Court of Appeals violated the Whistleblower Protection Enforcement Act by improperly dismissing a whistleblower's claims of retaliation an…
24-6128 Jonathan High v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-statute minor-protection sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation video-evidence Whether a defendant can be convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 2251 for a video showing a minor engaging in innocuous conduct without editing the video to cre…
24-6130 Eugene Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP compassionate-release due-process judicial-discretion sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation trial-defects Whether a district court judge may consider due process violations, defects in the trial, and conflicts of interest from the underlying trial when dec…
24-6131 Kristopher Jacob Freda v. Oregon Oregon Denied Response WaivedIFP bureau-of-prisons compassionate-release discretionary-relief extraordinary-circumstances first-step-act sentencing-reduction Whether a district court may reduce a defendant's sentence under the First Step Act's compassionate release provision based on extraordinary and compe…
24-6134 Joshua Idlefonso Villalobos v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review expert-evidence forensic-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prejudice-standard Whether the Ninth Circuit's conclusion that the state court reasonably applied Supreme Court precedents in finding a lack of prejudice when damning fo…
24-6141 Martin Garcia v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting categorical-analysis criminal-procedure force-clause hobbs-act statutory-interpretation Whether Circuits have improperly applied categorical analysis to aiding and abetting's elements under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s force clause and misi…
24-6143 Gustavo Navaro v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting carjacking categorical-analysis criminal-procedure force-clause statutory-elements Whether Circuits have failed to apply categorical analysis to aiding and abetting's distinct elements under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s force clause an…
24-6149 Michael Boyer v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2119 carjacking criminal-intent intent-to-harm statutory-interpretation third-circuit Did the Third Circuit err by upholding Petitioner's conviction for carjacking in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2119 when the Government failed to prove tha…
24-6150 Reginold Cavoy Steed v. Johnny Fitz, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation criminal-procedure electronic-docket judicial-review post-conviction presentence-report Does the omission of the presentence report from the Criminal Court's electronic docket constitute a Brady violation?
24-6151 James Gregory Howell, Jr. v. The Morehouse School of Medicine, Inc. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act disability-discrimination injunctive-relief intentional-discrimination medical-education rehabilitation-act Whether a student with disabilities can obtain an injunction to restart medical education and whether the standard for intentional discrimination unde…
24-6154 Gary Glenn Peterson v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment legal-precedent procedural-fairness sentence-reduction Whether the denial of a motion for sentence reduction violates due process rights under the Fifth Amendment when issued on a ROTT.FR PT.ATF form
24-6156 Cenious Brewster v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-appeal judicial-discretion ninth-circuit presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in creating a 'presumption of reasonableness' for Judiciary Sentencing Information (JSIN) data from the United States …
24-6161 Leonard Hatten, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP co-defendant-comparison criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion reasonableness-review sentencing-disparity Was the sentence of the Defendant unreasonable due to unwarranted sentencing disparities among co-defendants?
24-6168 Jackson Peter Chiwanga v. James R. McHenry, III, Acting Attorney General Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
24-617 Joe Alter v. Donald J. Trump District of Columbia Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment election-integrity electoral-standing federal-courts insurrection-clause voter-rights Whether an ordinary citizen has standing to challenge a former President's qualifications under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment in the Federal courts,…
24-6170 Robert E. Carter v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split commercial-contract federal-statute fraud-inducement property-deprivation wire-fraud Whether fraudulent inducement of a commercial contract violates federal wire fraud statutes when no property loss occurs and whether property deprivat…
24-6179 Steven D'Agostino v. Gary A. Ashworth, Acting Secretary of the Air Force Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals fair-labor-standards-act federal-employee-wages jurisdictional-transfer minimum-wage-calculation tucker-act Whether the Third Circuit erred in jurisdictional transfer and federal employee wage calculations under the Tucker Act and FLSA
24-6181 Richard Grier v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP case-dismissal court-discretion discovery-motion guilty-plea judicial-review sentencing-error Did the lower court abuse its discretion when it denied petitioner's motion to receive discovery files and dismissed the case in December 2022 despite…
24-6185 Warren Siepman v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-statute digital-evidence federal-law peer-to-peer-networks transportation-of-illicit-material Whether a conviction for transportation of child pornography requires proof of actual download or merely making material available through peer-to-pee…
24-6186 Vicente Alejo Andres, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-trafficking firearm-possession sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether mere possession of a firearm in the same location as drug trafficking constitutes possession 'in furtherance of' a drug offense under 18 U.S.C…
24-6187 Joe Willie Cannon v. Michael Dehner, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review district-court factual-findings interlocutory-appeal qualified-immunity section-1983 Whether reviewing courts deciding qualified immunity on interlocutory appeal are permitted to reconsider the factual findings of the District Court
24-6188 John Earl Broomfield, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 911-call anonymous-tip fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion supreme-court-precedent Whether the 911 callers were 'anonymous' and if their identification conflicts with Florida v. J.L. precedent
24-6189 Maurice Duncan Burks v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge due-process jury-selection peremptory-strike racial-bias voir-dire Whether the government's peremptory strike of a black female juror through a deliberately confusing question violates Batson v. Kentucky and whether f…
24-6190 Jacobie Travinski Johnson v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-interference criminal-law judicial-procedure perjury sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Does the three-level adjustment in U.S.S.G. §2J1.3(b)(2) require more than the initial perjury to constitute a 'substantial interference with the admi…
24-6192 Ladonta A. Tucker v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-statute firearm-use mandatory-minimum predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether a person uses or carries a firearm 'during and in relation to' a predicate offense anytime the firearm has 'the potential to facilitate' the c…
24-6193 Ronald Robinson v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing eighth-circuit rita-presumption section-3553a sentencing-guidelines substantive-unreasonableness Does a presumption of reasonableness of Guidelines sentences under Rita preclude a finding of substantive unreasonableness in a maximum guideline sent…
24-6196 Austen Christopher Lee Newton v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
24-6197 Gail Manney v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-standard constitutional-review criminal-statute firearm-regulation ninth-circuit second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(6) impermissibly regulates a Second Amendment protected right to firearm purchase
24-6198 Martin Diaz-Nunez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres-precedent case-law certiorari fifth-circuit judicial-review supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
24-6199 Leon Paul Kavis, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-consultation certificate-of-appealability constitutional-duty flores-ortega ineffective-assistance trial-counsel Could reasonable jurists debate that trial counsel's constitutional duty to consult with a defendant on whether to file an appeal pursuant Rose v. Flo…
24-6200 Carlos Guadalupe Sanchez-Felix v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment illegal-reentry racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation Must a court considering the reenactment of a provision that was originally adopted for a racially discriminatory purpose give meaningful consideratio…
24-6201 Christopher Jeorge Millican v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure hearsay search-warrant sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence Whether the Confrontation Clause allows the admission of testimonial documents created in response to a search warrant without direct confrontation of…
24-6204 Ronald P. Hargrave v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance due-process fourth-circuit harmless-error prescription-error ruan-standard Can a physician be convicted of a violation of 21 U.S.C. §841, post-Ruan, when that physician's conduct in prescribing the controlled substance was bo…
24-6207 Daniel Cohen v. James Hill, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-health-expert state-court-review Whether a state court's denial of funds for a mental health expert and refusal to hold a hearing on ineffective assistance of counsel constitutes an u…
24-6210 Kareem Roderique v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
24-6211 Roderick Wayne Bell v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-law federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether there is an obvious and irreconcilable clash between § 922(g)(1) and the rights protected by the Second Amendment
24-6215 Liston Watson v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-conviction plea-agreement post-conviction-relief Whether the right to effective assistance of counsel attaches during a 28 U.S.C. §2255 proceeding when counsel is communicating a plea agreement to th…
24-6225 Dennis Mischler v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit habeas-corpus sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth Circuit deprived Mischler of Due Process by failing to afford an evidentiary hearing on disputed facts when no hearing was provided …
24-636 Jessie J. Barnes v. Donald Uhler, Superintendent, Upstate Correctional Facility, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-trial physical-restraints Whether the Deck test allows a trial judge to require a litigant to wear physical restraints during a jury trial without stating specific case-related…
24-668 Republic of Argentina v. Attestor Master Value Fund LP, et al. Second Circuit Denied commercial-activity federal-standard foreign-sovereign-immunities-act jurisdictional-immunity property-execution state-law Whether courts should apply state or federal law to determine property location for foreign sovereign immunity under the FSIA, and whether property co…
24-679 GMAG, L.L.C., et al. v. Ralph S. Janvey, as Court-Appointed Receiver for The Stanford International Bank Limited Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process equitable-claim judicial-procedure jury-finding procedural-fairness Whether a court deciding an equitable claim can disregard a jury's factual finding on a common issue without notice or an opportunity to be heard
24A516 In Re Martin Akerman District of Columbia Presumed Complete administrative-discretion automated-enforcement constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment procedural-safeguards Whether automated enforcement systems that issue citations without human oversight violate due process protections under the Fifth Amendment by depriv…
24A531 Zachary Thomas Horton v. Superior Court of California, Solano County, et al. California Presumed Complete Relisted (2) due-process judicial-review mandamus petition-denial pro-se state-court Whether a state court's summary denial of a pro se litigant's petition for mandamus and prohibition without substantive review violates due process an…