Conference: 2025-03-28

80 cases — 0 granted, 80 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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23-7386 Jose Caban v. United States Second Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924(c) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-law inaction sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the Court should grant certiorari to resolve the conflict among the circuits on the question of whether a crime that can be committed by compl…
23-7587 Jondell Middlebrooks v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP career-offender crime-of-violence guidelines-manual inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses physical-force sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a crime that requires proof of bodily injury or death, but can be committed by omission, has as an element the use, attempted use, or threaten…
23-918 Ranito Allen v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) 18-usc-924 actus-reus criminal-law federal-criminal-statute mens-rea omission-liability physical-force sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether an offense that can be committed through omission or inaction can qualify as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A)
24-5013 Jonathan Feliz v. United States Second Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP actus-reus bodily-injury criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause mens-rea omission physical-force use-of-force violent-crime Whether a crime that requires proof of bodily injury or death, but can be committed by failing to take action, has as an element the use, attempted us…
24-504 Joseph M. Hoskins v. Jared Withers, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-retaliation due-process first-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity Whether qualified immunity shields government officials from liability when retaliating against a person for exercising a clearly established constitu…
24-5040 Juan Alberto Ortiz-Orellana v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP attempted use but can be committed by accidental means or by fa has as an element the use or threatened use of physical force bodily-injury crime-of-violence felony-murder force-clause mens-rea modified-categorical-approach physical-force premeditated-murder use-of-force Whether a crime that requires proof of bodily injury or death, but can be committed by accidental means or by failing to take action, has as an elemen…
24-5098 Gerald Smith v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP actus-reus crime-of-violence criminal-law mens-rea rule-of-lenity sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether 21 U.S.C. § 848(e)(1)(A) represents a qualifying 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), and how the rule of lenity should properly be a…
24-510 Kevin Abbey, et al. v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied federal-tort-claims-act misrepresentation negligence-claims sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction toxic-exposure Whether Petitioners' negligence claims 'aris[e] out of … misrepresentation,' and thus are barred by section 2680(h) of the FTCA, even though Petitione…
24-5225 Nidal M. Hasan v. United States Armed Forces Denied IFP appellate-review automatic-reversal criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error public-trial structural-error waller-v-georgia weaver-v-massachusetts Whether a court of appeals may afford no remedy for a public trial violation where the defendant objected to the closure at trial and raised the issue…
24-5243 Ryan Taybron, Eric Nixon, and Geovanni Douglas v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c3a bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-statute delligatti-v-united-states omission omission-crime physical-force use-of-force Whether a crime that requires proof of bodily injury or death, but can be committed by failing to take action, has as an element the use, attempted us…
24-5314 Martin L. Hunt and Xavier Greene v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP bodily-injury circuit-split crime-of-violence mandatory-consecutive physical-force sentencing Whether a crime that requires proof of bodily injury or death, but can be committed by failing to take action, has as an element the use, attempted us…
24-5316 Kifano Jordan v. United States Second Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-law federal-criminal-code pastore-precedent second-circuit-review sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether New York's second-degree murder statute qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)
24-577 Gilbert Perez v. United States First Circuit Denied Amici (2) arrest-search criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement luggage-search warrantless-search Does the Fourth Amendment prohibit the warrantless search of a backpack, piece of luggage, or other bag carried by an individual at the time of his ar…
24-5859 Hugo Rangel-Botello v. Texas Texas Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-violation court-of-criminal-appeals criminal-procedure documentary-evidence due-process habeas-corpus Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals improperly denied habeas relief based on documentary evidence and constitutional violations
24-5878 Celeste M. Gonsalves v. Stuart B. Glauberman, by His Managing Agent, KFG Properties, Inc., et al. Hawaii Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection eviction hud-section-8 summary-judgment Whether the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals erred in affirming summary judgment eviction orders based on allegedly unconscionable lease agreement…
24-5893 Mahlon Prater, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof circuit-split conspiracy-charges constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy Whether courts should assess the degree of difference or overlap between charged conspiracies to determine a double jeopardy violation
24-5903 Asem Farooq v. Donna Bolt, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights corporate-misconduct due-process employment-discrimination military-reservist seventh-amendment Whether the Seventh Amendment's right to a jury trial applies to employment discrimination claims involving military reservists and minority employees
24-5913 Lili Zhang Tydingco v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alien-harboring-act confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-prosecution cross-examination testimonial-statements Whether translated out-of-court testimonial statements may be admitted without violating the Confrontation Clause when the interpreter is deemed an ag…
24-5937 Randy Price v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bruen-test constitutional-interpretation en-banc-review firearm-regulation second-amendment statutory-construction Whether Second Amendment protected 'conduct' under Bruen's step one consists of more than an individual's possession or carrying of a bearable firearm
24-5948 Colette Savage, et al. v. Mark Savage, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP contract-fabrication court-integrity due-process judicial-misconduct legal-fraud pro-se-litigation Whether court judgments based on fabricated facts constitute an illegality and whether Texas courts can construct fictitious contracts that conflict w…
24-5964 In Re Daniel E. Hall Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP fraud-upon-court judicial-procedure local-rule-83.1 mandamus rule-60 writ-of-certiorari Whether the Supreme Court will address fraud upon the court, procedural requirements under Local Rule 83.1(a), voiding proceedings under Rule 60, and …
24-5966 Joey Deal v. Hector Rios, Warden New Mexico Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certiorari constitutional-amendment due-process legal-precedent state-petition supreme-court-review Whether the New Mexico Supreme Court's denial of a state petition for certiorari violated the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments and conflicted with prio…
24-5994 David Rodriguez v. Texas Texas Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion due-process fourteenth-amendment right-to-counsel right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment Did the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas err in holding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion and violate Rodriguez's Fourteenth Amendme…
24-5999 Juan Manuel Cruzado Laureano v. United States Attorney's Office, District of Puerto Rico First Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights-complaint criminal-conviction doj-waiver federal-procedure solicitor-general-resignation supreme-court-review Whether a criminal conviction can be invalidated when the Solicitor General resigns and the Department of Justice waives its right to defend the convi…
24-6046 Steven Eric Walker v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-prohibition government-power right-to-bear-arms second-amendment self-defense weapons-regulation Does the unqualified constitutional prohibition established by the Second Amendment delegate to government a free-floating power to infringe upon the …
24-6194 Donald E. Deardorff v. Terry Raybon, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP capital-murder circumstantial-evidence confrontation-clause habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance strickland-standard Does the Eleventh Circuit's opinion substantially conflict with Supreme Court precedent by failing to consider and weigh circumstantial evidence again…
24-6202 Kayne Russell Donath v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied IFP acceptance-of-responsibility circuit-split criminal-statute physical-force sentencing-enhancement ussg-guideline Whether a statute that does not require the affirmative use of force has, as an element, the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force
24-6366 Steven Douglas Freno, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 3553a-analysis appellate-review booker-standard gall-factors judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines Whether appellate courts can dispense with analyzing guideline issues when a district court would have reached the same result by varying under Booker…
24-6370 Anthony Medina v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP circuit-split federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review state-court-adjudication Whether the Fifth Circuit's interpretation of 'adjudication on the merits' under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) conflicts with Supreme Court precedent in Johnson…
24-6393 Shamichael Antonio Pearson v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-standard-of-proof identity-evidence jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the evidence was sufficient under Jackson v. Virginia to prove beyond a reasonable doubt Mr. Pearson's identity as the perpetrator
24-6406 Bryan Frederick Jennings v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP brady-claim competency-claim disclosure-violation federal-statute habeas-corpus second-petition Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b) bars a second-in-time federal habeas petition raising a Brady claim based on evidence that the State failed to disclose un…
24-6413 La Shauna M. Griffin v. United States District Court for the Central District of California, Santa Ana Ninth Circuit Denied IFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights employment-discrimination equal-pay-act title-vii workplace-retaliation Whether federal anti-discrimination laws prohibit employer retaliation for employee rights assertions and protect against workplace discrimination bas…
24-6415 Raheem Morrissette v. United States Eleventh Circuit GVR IFP None Question not identified.
24-6417 Adaeze Nwosu v. Deutsche Bank AG Ninth Circuit Denied IFP None
24-6419 Gary Jones v. Darrell Moore, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-6429 Robert Michael Kuczewski v. Robin Marien, et al. California Denied Response WaivedIFP defamation first-amendment free-speech government-speech limited-purpose-public-figure public-interest Whether the standard for classifying limited purpose public figures and the scope of defamation liability for republishing official government documen…
24-6430 Maurice Fleming v. Georgia Georgia Denied IFP accomplice-testimony criminal-conviction due-process jury-instruction legal-principles statutory-interpretation Whether the trial court's failure to provide a requested jury instruction on an accomplice's testimony requires reversal of a criminal conviction when…
24-6434 Justin Juan De La Cruz Martinez v. Superior Court of Pennsylvania Seventh Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-6436 Reco A. Johnson v. Florida Florida Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-6439 Amir Abdul-Alim, et ux., Individually and on Behalf of Their Minor Children A.A.A. and I.A.A. v. Clark County School District, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights equal-access-to-justice federal-court-procedure mandatory-legal-counsel parental-authority pro-se-litigation Under what circumstances does a federal court exclude parents from receiving court-appointed legal counsel for their children in pro se litigation whe…
24-6440 Jondrew LaChaux v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, Clark County, et al. Nevada Denied IFP child-custody due-process family-law guardianship procedural-fairness right-to-counsel Whether the Nevada Supreme Court's interpretation of child custody and guardianship proceedings violates due process rights and the right to assistanc…
24-6448 Dennis Sheldon Brewer v. John Ratcliffe, Director, Central Intelligence Agency Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court due-process judicial-precedent mandamus standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly disregarded established standing principles by dismissing a pleading sua sponte contrary to Supreme Court precede…
24-6454 Arthur Anderson v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
24-647 Eric Manuelian v. Jennifer Starr, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as Trustee of the Laura Kirkland Trust dated 3/10/05 and in the Capacity as Trustee of the Starr Trust, et al. Florida Denied None Question not identified.
24-6502 Willie Bandy v. Scott Bessent, Secretary of Treasury, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation due-process pro-se-plaintiff service-of-process stimulus-check subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether due process is violated when United States Marshals fail to properly serve a complaint, when the IRS does not issue a stimulus check, or when …
24-6503 Larry Blakney v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
24-6518 Martin Vera-Rivas v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP border-patrol border-proximity corpus-delicti criminal-conduct illegal-entry suspicion-of-crime Does mere proximity to the border corroborate the criminal conduct at the core of illegal entry, thereby defeating a corpus delici defense?
24-6530 Timothy P. Dasler, Individually and on Behalf of T.D. v. Dalene Washburn Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights domestic-relations due-process federal-jurisdiction state-action younger-abstention Whether federal courts must exercise jurisdiction despite Domestic Relations or Younger abstention when state remedies are inadequate and parallel lit…
24-6553 Ramon Caldwell v. Bryan Morrison, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process jury-determination prior-convictions recidivism sentence-enhancement Whether a sentence enhancement based on prior convictions violates a defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights by not being submitted to a jur…
24-6563 Arthur Torlucci v. United States District Court for the Central District of California, Los Angeles Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
24-659 Brian D. Swanson v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law constitutional-interpretation income-tax tax-deficiency territory-clause uniformity-clause Did Puerto Rico become an incorporated Territory subject to the Uniformity Clause for federal income tax collection, and did the Commissioner of Inter…
24-6600 Michael Boutin v. Chicopee Housing Authority Massachusetts Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law due-process housing-dispute judicial-bias procedural-irregularities tenant-rights Did the Massachusetts courts fail to address constitutional due process violations in a housing dispute involving judicial bias and tenant rights?
24-6628 Adrin Smack v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof disputed-facts due-process fourteenth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence sentencing Was Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process right violated when a Delaware State Sentencing Court applied a minimal indicia of reliability burde…
24-6643 Mark Douglas Huber v. Randy Valley, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel Whether the Court of Appeals egregiously misapplied this Court's standard for issuing a certificate of appealability in the face of a substantial show…
24-6661 Corey Dequan Broome v. James R. Scheibner, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability certiorari judicial-precedent sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation vacate-and-remand Whether the Sixth Circuit's denial of petitioner's motion for certificate of appealability deviates from the court's precedent, warranting certiorari,…
24-6663 Darrell Turner v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right fifth-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing-review statutory-interpretation vacatur Does a defendant meet the 'substantial denial of a constitutional right' standard under 28 USCS § 2253(c) when challenging a sentence based on a vacat…
24-6670 Earl Francis Hart v. Charles Daniels, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
24-6679 Chance Blackman v. Theresa Cisneros, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-principles circuit-split equitable-tolling habeas-corpus legal-assistance mental-disability Whether agency principles apply when a severely mentally and physically disabled inmate relies on an incarcerated, non-lawyer advocate for legal assis…
24-6681 Sharif El-Battouty v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability district-court-discretion evidentiary-rulings indictment-sufficiency special-interrogatories venue-determination Whether the Court of Appeals erred in not issuing a certificate of appealability by not reviewing the District Court's decisions regarding special int…
24-6682 Raequan Rucker v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-dismissal appellate-procedure fourth-circuit judicial-review legal-standing procedural-error Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Rucker's Appeal before that Court
24-6686 Deonta Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law hobbs-act interstate-commerce substantial-effect In order to convict a defendant of robbery of a local business establishment under the Hobbs Act, must the prosecution prove beyond a reasonable doubt…
24-6702 Vincent Adams Vassor v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-objection false-statements jury-instructions jury-testimony legal-procedure witness-credibility Are false statements and false quotations solicited in the presence of a jury that have not occurred to each attorney considered admissible testimony …
24-6705 James Robinson v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
24-6711 Kris Chapter Jackson v. Soave Automotive Group, Inc., et al. Kansas Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review vexatious-litigant Whether a lower court's vexatious litigant order violates due process rights and is immediately appealable
24-6713 Elmer Alexis Montano Fuentes v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause congressional-power criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce state-jurisdiction Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate possession of a firearm solely because it crossed state lines at some point before it came into the defend…
24-6715 Robert Keshaun Turner v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-belief search-incident-to-arrest vehicle-search warrant-exception Whether the Fourth Circuit's application of the vehicle search incident-to-arrest exception to the warrant requirement resolved the meaning of 'reason…
24-6718 Juan Carlos Gamez-Salas v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law equal-protection 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…
24-6725 Fernando Yates v. Spring Independent School District Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights eeoc-brief judicial-error legal-ethics perjury Whether the Fifth Court of Appeals erred in ignoring relevant evidence and failing to properly consider the EEOC Amicus Brief, and whether the petitio…
24-686 Dustin Young v. John R. Swaney, Sheriff, Madison County, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent constitutional-rights federal-appeals habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation Whether a certificate of appealability may be granted under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) when the issue that the petitioner wishes to present on appeal has bee…
24-750 Martha Adams, et al. v. Angelo Rescigno, Sr., as Executor of the Estate of Cheryl B. Canfield, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii civil-procedure class-action evidentiary-analysis settlement-certification transunion-ramirez Does Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 as amended in 2018 permit courts to apply a policy favoring settlement in place of a rigorous evidentiary anal…
24-778 Billie Smith, et al. v. Tara Medina, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied constitutional-conditions judicial-review permit-requirements property-rights state-sovereignty tenth-amendment Whether federal judges violate the Tenth Amendment by obliterating Colorado law without finding it unconstitutional
24-800 Rosemary D'Augusta, et al. v. American Petroleum Institute, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied act-of-state-doctrine antitrust-law jurisdiction oil-production price-fixing sherman-act Whether American oil companies can enter into price-fixing agreements with Russian and Saudi Arabian oil companies without Congressional sanction in v…
24-817 Edward Lasseville v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California Denied Response Waived alien-registration federal-preemption homeland-security immigration-law national-security state-regulation Whether federal preemption bars California's Immigration Consultants Act from regulating practitioners and others assisting in alien registration
24-838 Sol M. Leiner v. Dow, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived bankruptcy-discharge constitutional-provisions federal-court jurisdiction product-liability supreme-court-review Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in dismissing the case involving product liability claims against Dow Defendants and jurisdiction over federal versus …
24-840 Andrew Sablan Salas v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-interpretation federal-legislation rational-basis-test territorial-clause territorial-rights us-cnmi-covenant Is the application of federal legislation to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands under the US-CNMI Covenant properly evaluated by means o…
24-875 Lucas Sirois v. United States First Circuit Denied Response Waived appropriations-law compliance-standard criminal-prosecution federal-enforcement medical-marijuana state-authorization Whether the Department of Justice may criminally investigate and prosecute individuals licensed for medical marijuana under the Rohrabacher-Farr Amend…
24-898 John Doe Corporation v. Kennerly, Montgomery & Finley, P.C. Tennessee Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process notice-requirement state-court summary-dismissal Whether a state trial court can summarily dismiss a plaintiff's complaint without providing notice to the plaintiff when the court has counsel's conta…
24-930 Arturo S. Lopez, Sr. v. Frank Kendall, Secretary of the Air Force, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure civil-rights codified-federal-regulations due-process federal-employee-rights injunctive-relief Whether a federal employee can file a complaint after proving unawareness of discriminatory action and asserting estoppel under 29 C.F.R. 1614.105(a)(…
24-941 Wayne Sellers, IV v. Colorado Colorado Denied Response Waived diminished-culpability eighth-amendment felony-murder life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing penological-goals Whether a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for felony murder, imposed on a defendant who did not kill or inte…
24A796 Tony Barksdale v. Steve T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete None