Conference: 2025-04-04
72 cases — 1 granted, 71 denied/dismissed, 0 pending
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-482 | Holsey Ellingburg, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Judgment Issued | Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) | circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-restitution ex-post-facto mandatory-victim-restitution-act penal-statute | Whether criminal restitution under the Mandatory Victim Restitution Act (MVRA) is penal for purposes of the Ex Post Facto Clause |
| 24-515 | Baltimore County, Maryland v. Michael A. Scott, et al. | Fourth Circuit | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | employment-classification fair-labor-standards-act government-custodian inmate-labor public-works-project wage-regulation | Whether inmates working in public works projects for their government custodian may qualify as 'employees' under the Fair Labor Standards Act |
| 24-557 | David Asa Villarreal v. Texas | Texas | Granted | Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-testimony right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court | Whether a trial court abridges the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to counsel by prohibiting the defendant and his counsel from discussing the defen… |
| 24-5700 | Andersen Rable v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | atf-interpretation criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility federal-firearms-license firearms-regulation mens-rea | Whether the District Court erred in refusing to allow evidence of ATF's changed interpretation of solencer classification and in allowing a potentiall… |
| 24-5769 | Tanya Tyson v. Quiktrip Corporation | Oklahoma | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review default-judgment jurisdictional-challenge petition-of-error service-of-process supreme-court-procedure | Did the Supreme Court err in dismissing the Motion to Dismiss the Default Order when it had already been certified and docketed, and in mooting compan… |
| 24-5776 | Richard Allen Harris, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement state-court-decisions | Whether federal courts should consult the most recent state court decisions or pre-conviction state court decisions when determining the elements of a… |
| 24-5983 | Trevor Spencer Taylor v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs | Federal Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | administrative-law evidence-tampering fruit-of-poisonous-tree judicial-misconduct pro-se-representation veterans-claims | Whether the CAVC and CAFC improperly dismissed allegations of evidence tampering and government misconduct in a veterans' disability claim |
| 24-6012 | Cyrus Hazari v. Superior Court of California, Santa Clara County, et al. | California | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights disability-discrimination due-process judicial-ethics judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct | Whether judicial ethics can be restored when systemic discrimination against disabled litigants occurs despite judicial immunity and potential constit… |
| 24-604 | Xiaoqing Zheng v. United States | Second Circuit | Denied | administrative-law agency-deference judicial-interpretation kisor-standard sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction | Whether the limits on agency deference articulated in Kisor limit the deference owed to the United States Sentencing Commission's commentary on intend… | |
| 24-6074 | Corey Rogers v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Florida | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | due-process fundamental-error grand-jury-indictment judicial-discretion per-curiam-decision unlawful-detention | Did the Supreme Court of Florida abuse its discretion by issuing a per curiam decision without reviewing the merits of Corey Rogers' case, and did the… |
| 24-637 | T-Mobile US, Inc., fka T-Mobile USA, Inc., et al. v. Simply Wireless Inc. | Fourth Circuit | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | common-law-mark continuous-use lanham-act section-1127 trademark-infringement trademark-rights | Whether the 'use' that creates a common law trademark right under Section 45 of the Lanham Act must be continuous to maintain trademark rights |
| 24-6425 | Cameron Cates v. Jared Shlemovitz, dba Junto Sounds, et al. | Second Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | copyright-law creative-works judicial-interpretation legal-petition procedural-fairness public-domain | How is it that, according to the Second Circuit, 'all on the common wellspring that is the creative works draw public domain,'? What good is copyright… |
| 24-6444 | Samuel T. Whatley, II, et al. v. City of North Charleston, South Carolina, et al. | Fourth Circuit | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights election-interference federal-jurisdiction freedom-of-information governmental-immunity search-and-seizure | Whether intergovernmental agencies, organizations, and individual governmental employees are immune from federal law prosecutions and sanctions when i… |
| 24-6445 | Neelam Uppal v. Florida Department of Administrative Hearings, et al. | Florida | Denied | IFP | administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-violations due-process florida-supreme-court judicial-review | Did the Florida Supreme Court err in dismissing the appeal and consequently failed to address the constitutional violations raised |
| 24-6446 | Larayna Manning v. Kentucky | Kentucky | Denied | IFP | chain-of-custody constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment speedy-trial | Whether the delay in trial and chain of custody of evidence violated the defendant's constitutional rights to a speedy trial and due process |
| 24-6447 | Rufus Lamar Savin Spearman v. Chad H. Williams, et al. | Sixth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | None | Question not identified. |
| 24-6451 | Devon Maurice Gray v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | GVR | IFP | bruen-test constitutional-law gun-rights rahimi-precedent second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment methodology set forth in Bruen and Rahimi |
| 24-6458 | David C. Lettieri v. Federal Bureau of Investigation | Second Circuit | Denied | IFP | abuse-of-process constitutional-rights due-process false-arrest grand-jury probable-cause | Whether a false arrest without probable cause constitutes a violation of due process rights |
| 24-6461 | David James Lack v. Dr. Posner, et al. | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process medical-treatment plea-agreement prison-conditions speedy-trial | Was the Trial Court in Violation of the Plaintiffs State and Federal Speedy-Trial Rights, Defendant's Medical Treatment, and Due Process Rights by For… |
| 24-6463 | Noel Vincent Thomas v. Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, et al. | Florida | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof failure-to-state-claim pleading-standards res-judicata statute-of-limitations trial-court-discretion | Whether the trial court erred in dismissing the case for failure to state a claim, statute of limitations, and res judicata, and whether the court abu… |
| 24-6465 | Leslie Robert Burk v. United States | Fifth Circuit | Denied | IFP | 18-USC-1343 18-USC-1349 commercial-contract contract-law specific-intent wire-fraud | Whether the wire-fraud statutes criminalize a deceptive statement that induces an ordinary commercial contract that the party who made the statement i… |
| 24-6471 | Douglas Manning v. Sgt. St. Paul, et al. | Third Circuit | Denied | IFP | None | Question not identified. |
| 24-6481 | Frederick Stampone v. Michigan Supreme Court, et al. | Sixth Circuit | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights judicial-review legal-standard liberal-construction pro-se-pleadings procedural-interpretation | Does this court construe the pleadings liberally and hold them to a less stringent standard than those filed by attorneys? |
| 24-6484 | Steven James Kelly v. American Bar Association | Fourth Circuit | Denied | IFP | None | Question not identified. |
| 24-6485 | David C. Lettieri v. Wyoming County Sheriffs | Second Circuit | Denied | IFP | appellate-review case-review court-procedure in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion procedural-rights | Does an appeal court have the ability to ignore facts, does a judge have the right to revoke in forma pauperis without notice, and does revoking in fo… |
| 24-6487 | Kareem Reaves v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law felony-conviction gun-ownership individual-liberty second-amendment | Whether a person previously convicted of a felony is categorically excluded from the protections of the Second Amendment |
| 24-6493 | Washington Windsor v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia | District of Columbia | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts due-process fifth-amendment judicial-delay mootness-doctrine pro-se-litigant | Whether a lower court's unexplained and unjustified delay in docketing a pro se litigant's motion violates the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause an… |
| 24-6498 | In Re Thomas Sawyer | Denied | IFP | appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court filing-fee judicial-review mandamus-relief procedural-rules | Whether the 7th Circuit improperly denied a second appellate filing fee and mandamus relief for a petitioner seeking to challenge a lower court's ruli… | |
| 24-6508 | Tyrone Lindsey v. Louisiana | Louisiana | Denied | IFP | None | Question not identified. |
| 24-6520 | Lalako Jonathan Jose v. Arizona | Arizona | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure jury-trial ramos-precedent sixth-amendment twelve-person-jury | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a twelve-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony |
| 24-6524 | Robert Annabel, II v. Heidi E. Washington, Director, Michigan Department of Corrections, et al. | Sixth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure complaint-sufficiency dismissal judicial-discretion pleading-amendment pro-se | Does a district court have discretion to allow a pro se plaintiff an opportunity to amend a complaint or dismiss it without prejudice when the complai… |
| 24-6532 | Timothy P. Dasler v. Jennifer Knapp, fka Jennifer Dasler | Second Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure constitutional-rights domestic-relations federal-jurisdiction state-action younger-abstention | Whether federal courts can exercise jurisdiction through Domestic Relations or Younger abstention when state remedies are inadequate and parallel liti… |
| 24-6609 | Barry Morris v. Rob Jeffreys | Illinois | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | None | Question not identified. |
| 24-6646 | Randy Allen Herman, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insanity-defense involuntary-act sixth-amendment | Whether Petitioner was deprived of effective assistance of counsel in violation of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti… |
| 24-6665 | Craig LaFayette Stingley v. John Laczkowski, et al. | Wisconsin | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment due-process equal-protection medical-malpractice non-economic-damages state-action | Does Wisconsin's Medical Malpractice Non-Economic Damages CAP Law violate the 14th Amendment's State Action Clause by arbitrarily abridging the consti… |
| 24-6716 | Deepak Deshpande v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review federal-prisoners habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2244 section-2255 | Whether the bar in 28 U.S.C. §2244(b)(1) applies to claims presented by Federal Prisoners in a second or successive motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. §… |
| 24-6719 | Stanley Ray Lubkin v. United States | Fourth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | None | Question not identified. |
| 24-6720 | Leroy Harold White, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-defendants deportation extraneous-offenses fifth-amendment sixth-amendment | Do the Fifth and Sixth Amendments afford criminal defendants the same burden of proof for extraneous offenses as convicted aliens receive at deportati… |
| 24-6729 | Justin Lang Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility drug-offense felon-in-possession firearms-possession second-amendment sentencing-guidelines | Whether section 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban for possessing a firearm violates the Second Amendment as applied to Petitioner? |
| 24-6730 | Richard David Degout v. United States | Fourth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure drug-offenses due-process first-step-act sentencing-reduction | Whether a criminal defendant convicted of CCE Murder based on offenses punishable under 21 U.S.C. §841(b)(1)(A) should be entitled to a sentence reduc… |
| 24-6737 | Carlsel Alexander v. United States | Fifth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process firearms-ban second-amendment sentencing-guidelines | Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by persons previously convicted of a crime punishable by more than a year of imprisonment, codified at 1… |
| 24-6738 | Steven Dewayne Barnes, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure firearm-possession reasonable-suspicion second-amendment sentencing-enhancement terry-stop | Whether law enforcement can conduct a Terry stop based on subjective factors without specific evidence of criminal activity, and whether a sentencing … |
| 24-6741 | Sasha Nicole Pringle v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aedpa constitutional-claim exhaustion-doctrine federal-claim habeas-corpus state-court | Whether a state habeas petitioner 'fairly presents' her federal claim when the petitioner raises the substance of a federal constitutional claim in st… |
| 24-6743 | Andre Ricardo Roach v. United States | Fourth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion court-of-appeals federal-custody judicial-review sentencing-procedure state-custody | Whether the Court of Appeals abused its discretion by failing to consider this Court's opinion in Hughes v. United States and by removing Petitioner f… |
| 24-6747 | Juventino L. Plancarte v. United States | Seventh Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cbd-legalization constitutional-rights drug-sniffing-dogs fourth-amendment privacy-expectation warrantless-search | Whether a warrantless sniff by a dog trained to reliably alert to legal possessions constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment |
| 24-6749 | Foster Lee Scott v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-violation expert-testimony fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence intent-determination mens-rea | Whether the testimony of Sergeant Helms establishes the required mens rea and violates evidentiary rules and constitutional standards |
| 24-6752 | Adonis Batista v. United States | Tenth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial methamphetamine-quantity sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | Were Petitioner's Fifth Amendment due process rights and Sixth Amendment rights to jury trial violated when the jury found him accountable for less th… |
| 24-6753 | John Martin v. United States | Second Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-activity joint-enterprise reasonably-foreseeable relevant-conduct second-circuit sentencing-guidelines | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit incorrectly interpreted the Sentencing Guidelines' relevant conduct provisions for j… |
| 24-692 | Covenant Construction Services, LLC, et al. v. Five Rivers Carpenters District Council Health and Welfare Fund, et al. | Eighth Circuit | Denied | american-rule attorney-fees claim-assignment contractual-exception miller-act notice-requirement | Does the Miller Act modify the contractual exception to the American Rule governing attorney fees to allow their recovery against a contractor who is … | |
| 24-711 | Joe Morford v. Maurizio Cattelan | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | access-proof artwork-copying circuit-split copyright-law striking-similarity substantial-likeness | Can portions of artwork establish striking similarity and prove copying without direct evidence of access? | |
| 24-795 | Ivan Antonyuk, et al. v. Steven G. James, In His Official Capacity as the Superintendent of the New York State Police, et al. | Second Circuit | Denied | Amici (7)Relisted (2) | concealed-carry gun-rights historical-interpretation moral-character second-amendment state-regulation | Whether the proper historical time period for ascertaining the Second Amendment's original meaning as applied to the states is 1791, rather than 1868,… |
| 24-810 | Prabhjot Kaur Kang v. Western Governors University | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights due-process human-rights institutional-misconduct legal-protections student-discipline | Are educational institutions allowed to cover criminal wrongdoing against students by labeling it as student discipline, and do students of private un… |
| 24-811 | Wei Qiu v. Woodford County, Kentucky Board of Education | Sixth Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection race-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii | Whether the district court and circuit court improperly applied summary judgment standards and violated constitutional due process rights in a Title V… |
| 24-818 | Trika Sprewell v. Juana Flores | California | Denied | california-law conveyance mineral-interest property-rights quiet-title subsurface-lease | Whether the lower Courts in California errored in reaching its decisions within this Quiet Title Action without proper consideration of the parcels 'P… | |
| 24-819 | Larry E. Parrish v. Supreme Court of Tennessee | Tennessee | Denied | due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias recusal structural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether Rule 10B of the Tennessee Supreme Court Rules constitutes a structural constitutional violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clau… | |
| 24-821 | Richard L. Lewis v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. | Third Circuit | Denied | appellate-counsel constitutional-challenge direct-appeal evidence-suppression fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance | Whether Mr. Lewis's state court appellate counsel was ineffective for failing to present obvious and significant constitutional challenges to the admi… | |
| 24-822 | Alejandro Alers, Jr. v. Olympia Medical Center, et al. | California | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure equal-protection power-of-attorney pro-se-litigant probate-code wrongful-death | Are pro se litigants entitled to equal protection, commence wrongful death lawsuits, and represent themselves without counsel under California law? |
| 24-828 | Ricky Durham v. Richard Adams, Warden | Missouri | Denied | Response Waived | congressional-intent criminal-prosecution federal-preemption habeas-corpus postal-worker-protection supremacy-clause | Whether the Supremacy Clause preempts state prosecution of a criminal defendant for killing a postal worker when Congress enacted 18 U.S.C. § 1114 to … |
| 24-832 | Renee Anna Najda, et al. v. Citibank, N.A., as Separate Trustee for PMT NPL Financing 2015-1, et al. | First Circuit | Denied | diversity-jurisdiction investment-advisor jurisdictional-test navarro-precedent trustee-citizenship unincorporated-entity | Whether the citizenship of a trustee or an unincorporated entity controls for diversity jurisdiction purposes when an investment advisor controls the … | |
| 24-846 | Marc M. Susselman v. Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office, et al. | Sixth Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights due-process first-amendment probable-cause rule-12b6 substantive-due-process | Whether the Sixth Circuit violated Petitioner's due process rights by improperly dismissing a lawsuit under Rule 12(b)(6) and charging him with a misd… |
| 24-849 | Laura Smith, as Duly Appointed Representative and Independent Administrator of the Estate of Andrea Manfredi, Deceased, et al. v. The Boeing Company, et al. | Seventh Circuit | Denied | Amici (3)Response Waived | admiralty-jurisdiction diversity-jurisdiction federal-court maritime-law subject-matter-jurisdiction wrongful-death | Whether a federal court can have exclusive admiralty jurisdiction over a claim when a non-admiralty state court would have concurrent jurisdiction ove… |
| 24-859 | Ruth Ann Conde Cheesman, et vir v. Tabitha A. Snyder | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | None | Question not identified. |
| 24-877 | David Bernardo-De La Cruz v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General | Seventh Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | None | |
| 24-891 | Warren Balogh v. Chief Al Thomas, Jr., et al. | Fourth Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights first-amendment government-violence monell-liability qualified-immunity speech-rights | Whether the First Amendment protects speech amid violence left deliberately unchecked by local government |
| 24-899 | Milos Product Tanker Corporation v. Valero Marketing and Supply Company | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | cargo-freight carrier-exception dominion-over-cargo legal-uniformity maritime-law shipping-commerce | Whether maritime law recognizes a carrier exception to the implied obligation to pay freight when a cargo receiver exercises dominion over cargo, and … |
| 24-918 | Exclusive Group Holdings, Inc. v. National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | attorneys-fees civil-litigation court-procedure federal-removal judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation | Whether district courts are required to expressly determine 'unusual circumstances' when adjudicating motions for attorneys' fees and costs under 28 U… |
| 24-921 | Kenneth Sorak v. Theresa Cisneros, former Judge, Colorado Fourth Judicial District Court, et al. | Tenth Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | 11th-amendment color-of-law constitutional-rights judicial-immunity rooker-feldman-doctrine rule-12b1-dismissal | Did the 10th Circuit err in its application of the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine and 11th Amendment when state agents acting under color of law allegedly vi… |
| 24-931 | Laurie Ann DeVore v. University of Kentucky Board of Trustees | Sixth Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | accommodation-process religious-discrimination sincerely-held-beliefs title-vii totality-of-circumstances undue-hardship | Whether the dispute of sincerely held religious beliefs should be evaluated under a Totality of Circumstances test that resolves the dispute, not by i… |
| 24A852 | Tahawwur Rana v. James Engleman, Interim Warden, Metropolitan Detention Center | Ninth Circuit | Presumed Complete | None | ||
| 24M70 | Anthony Michael Branch v. Fannie Mae, et al. | Massachusetts | Presumed Complete | None | ||
| 24M71 | Myrna De Jesus v. UnitedHealth Group, Inc., dba Optum360 Services, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | Presumed Complete | None | ||
| 24M72 | Trevor Spencer Taylor v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs | Federal Circuit | Presumed Complete | Relisted (2) | None |