Conference: 2025-04-17

154 cases — 1 granted, 153 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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Case Title Lower Court Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-1125 Logic Technology Development LLC v. Food and Drug Administration Third Circuit Denied Relisted (3) administrative-law agency-action arbitrary-and-capricious electronic-nicotine-delivery-system electronic-nicotine-delivery-systems fda-regulation menthol-flavoring premarket-tobacco-application premarket-tobacco-product-application retroactive-rulemaking retroactive-standard Whether the FDA's creation of a new, heightened standard for evaluating already-pending PMTAs for certain ENDS products was arbitrary and capricious
23-7393 Gregory Shawn Mercer v. Virginia, et al. Virginia Denied Relisted (3)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment amendment-interpretation constitutional-rights due-process incorporation-doctrine privileges-and-immunities privileges-immunities state-court-procedure supremacy-clause Whether the Circuit Court of Fairfax County, Court of Appeals of Virginia, and Supreme Court of Virginia erred in denying Petitioner's U.S. Amendment …
23-7840 Douglas Lemon v. Illinois Illinois Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence constitutional-violation disclosure-of-evidence due-process due-process-clause evidence-disclosure fitness-evaluation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated due to lack of a fair fitness evaluation, failure to disclose evidence, ineffective assis…
23-799 Magellan Technology, Inc. v. Food and Drug Administration Second Circuit Denied Amici (1)Relisted (4) administrative-procedure-act agency-rulemaking arbitrary-and-capricious circuit-split comparative-efficacy electronic-nicotine-delivery-systems ends-products fda-regulation marketing-authorization reliance-interests youth-access Whether FDA's denial of Petitioner's marketing applications for flavored ENDS was arbitrary and capricious
23-871 Lotus Vaping Technologies, LLC v. Food and Drug Administration Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Relisted (4) administrative-procedure-act arbitrary-and-capricious circuit-split comparative-efficacy electronic-nicotine-delivery-systems fair-warning flavored-products food-and-drug-administration marketing-applications Whether FDA's denial of Petitioner's marketing applications for flavored ENDS was arbitrary and capricious
24-1004 Aframax River Marine Company v. Suderman and Young Towing Company, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived admiralty-law fault-apportionment international-code maritime-liability safety-management-system vessel-collision Under federal admiralty law, whether a court adjudicating and apportioning the fault/liability of the respective parties in a vessel collision/ allisi…
24-1009 Joseph D. Lento v. Pennsylvania Office of Disciplinary Counsel Pennsylvania Denied Response Waived attorney-discipline disciplinary-proceedings due-process judicial-fairness legal-ethics procedural-rights Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court violated due process by denying an attorney the opportunity to rebut a disciplinary report containing alleged i…
24-1018 I. S., By and Through His Attorney in Fact, M. S., et al. v. Fulton County School District Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived free-appropriate-public-education idea individualized-education-plan procedural-safeguards psychological-report school-district Does a school district predetermine a child's IEP under the IDEA where it secretly alters a psychological report and refuses to engage meaningfully wi…
24-351 United States Postal Service, et al. v. Lebene Konan Fifth Circuit Granted Amici (3)Relisted (2) federal-tort-claims-act intentional-non-delivery mail-delivery postal-service sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation Whether a plaintiff's claim that postal service employees intentionally did not deliver mail to a designated address constitutes 'loss' or 'miscarriag…
24-411 Jeffrey Gray Thomas v. State Bar of Nevada Nevada Denied Relisted (2) compelled-government-speech constitutional-rights due-process free-speech interstate-commerce right-to-travel Whether the Supreme Court of Nevada denied due process and constitutional rights through reciprocal disbarment that allegedly violated free speech and…
24-474 Food and Drug Administration v. SWT Global Supply, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-law arbitrary-and-capricious-standard e-cigarette-products fda-authorization public-health tobacco-control-act Whether the court of appeals erred in setting aside FDA's denial orders as arbitrary and capricious
24-495 Lebene Konan v. United States Postal Service, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) circuit-split equal-protection federal-employees intracorporate-conspiracy ku-klux-klan-act section-1985-3 Whether federal employees can be liable under Section 1985(3) and whether the intracorporate conspiracy doctrine applies to such claims
24-5094 Kenyatta Quinn Mitchell v. Paul Bennett, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 circuit-court-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process heck-v-humphrey judicial-discretion legal-standards plra procedural-due-process state-law statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24-542 United States, ex rel. James Heron v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC Tenth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) false-claims-act foreclosure-fraud materiality-standard original-source public-disclosure-bar qui-tam What standard should courts use to determine whether a qui tam relator's allegations or alleged transactions are 'substantially the same' as those tha…
24-5758 Eriston Wilson v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split conspiracy-charge evidence-admissibility extrinsic-evidence intent-determination rule-404b Does the Fifth Circuit's rule that a plea of not guilty to a conspiracy charge automatically renders similar, extrinsic acts admissible as relevant to…
24-5839 Jordan Powell v. JBG Smith Properties, LP First Residences, et al. District of Columbia Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights-removal fourteenth-amendment remand-review statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction thirteenth-amendment Whether the civil rights removal statute 28 U.S.C. Section 1443 permits removal remand review according to the text thereof where Subsection 1447(d) d…
24-5848 Elizabeth Johnson, on Behalf of Aaron Johnson, Jr. v. Tiara Thomas Maryland Denied Relisted (2)IFP corrections-personnel exhaustion-doctrine inmate-grievance pretrial-detainee protective-order state-custody Is the inmate grievance process the exclusive remedy for pretrial detainees seeking protection from abuse in state custody?
24-5849 Elizabeth Johnson, on Behalf of Aaron Johnson, Jr. v. Jeremiah Kinney Maryland Denied Relisted (2)IFP exhaustion-doctrine inmate-grievance power-of-attorney pretrial-detainee protective-order state-custody Whether the inmate grievance process constitutes the exclusive remedy for pretrial detainees seeking protection from abuse in state custody
24-5850 Elizabeth Johnson, on Behalf of Aaron Johnson, Jr. v. Shannon Blackwell Maryland Denied Relisted (2)IFP corrections-staff exhaustion-doctrine inmate-grievance pretrial-detainee protective-order state-custody Is the inmate grievance process the exclusive remedy available to pretrial detainees and convicted persons for protection from abuse?
24-5851 Elizabeth Johnson, on Behalf of Aaron Johnson, Jr. v. Deshawn Hector Maryland Denied Relisted (2)IFP corrections-staff exhaustion-doctrine inmate-grievance power-of-attorney pretrial-detainee protective-order Is the inmate grievance process the exclusive remedy for pretrial detainees and convicted persons seeking protection from abuse, and must they exhaust…
24-5861 Robert Joseph Schmitt v. Texas Texas Denied Relisted (2)IFP concurrent-sentencing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance statutory-interpretation Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals err in not exercising their inherent authority to correct an unlawful sentence due to ineffective assistance o…
24-591 CSX Transportation, Inc. v. Norfolk Southern Railway Company, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) antitrust-violation continuing-violation monopoly sherman-act statute-of-limitations trade-restraint Whether the continuation of a Sherman Act violation retriggers the statute of limitations when the violation causes injury within the limitations peri…
24-5960 Christopher Patrick McGowan v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Relisted (2)IFP fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment grand-jury preliminary-hearing probable-cause Did the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas violate the petitioner's Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights through improper judicial proced…
24-6085 Tanya Tyson v. Madelyn Winningham, et al. Oklahoma Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP fraud-claim insurance-contract interlocutory-appeal procedural-error right-to-appeal subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the Supreme Court err in dismissing the case for lack of an appealable order and denying the right to appeal despite alleged fraud and jurisdictio…
24-6090 In Re William A. Freeman Denied Relisted (2)IFP None Question not identified.
24-6095 William Lematty v. Georgia Georgia Denied Relisted (2)IFP None Question not identified.
24-6146 Jarvis Parker v. Florida Florida Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP None Question not identified.
24-615 HCI Distribution, Inc., et al. v. Michael T. Hilgers, Attorney General of Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) None Question not identified.
24-6206 Anthony Bowden, Sr. v. Office of Personnel Management Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law disability-discrimination due-process federal-employment merit-system-protection-board reasonable-accommodation Whether the Merit System Protection Board's decision discriminated against a person with a disability and disregarded Mr. Bowden's arguments due to me…
24-6238 In Re Daniel Felix Denied Relisted (2)IFP animal-rights constitutional-personhood due-process equal-protection hate-crime-classification religious-freedom Whether non-property animals possess constitutional rights as individual plaintiffs and victims of cruelty in United States courts
24-6310 Descart Austin Begay, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied IFP circuit-split evidence-rule fabrication impeachment prior-consistent-statement witness-testimony Did the 2014 amendment to Rule 801(d)(1)(B) supplant this Court's decision in Tome to permit introduction of a declarant witness's prior consistent st…
24-639 David Orlando Marquez Cruz v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General Fourth Circuit Denied None
24-6402 Colby McCoggle v. Florida Florida Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-sentencing due-process hearing-rights judicial-procedure mandatory-sentence notice-requirement Is a criminal defendant denied due process when a court imposes a new mandatory sentence without affording notice or a hearing?
24-644 Darrell E. Williams v. Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-remedies appeals-council exhaustion-doctrine judicial-review Medicare-Act procedural-interpretation Whether the Supreme Court should directly consider the issue of 'exhaustion of administrative remedies' under the Medicare Act when the Medicare Appea…
24-6472 Willie R. Burgess, Jr. v. Alabama Alabama Denied IFP capital-murder death-penalty expert-testimony ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief strickland-standard Under the extreme circumstances of this case, can a state court deny a Strickland claim on the merits without conducting an evidentiary hearing?
24-6479 Thomas Sawyer v. Caryn Die, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-6513 Tavon Johnathon Magee v. Michigan Michigan Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claims effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-standard habeas-relief sixth-amendment Has Petitioner Magee made a proper showing of actual innocence to have his constitutional claims addressed on the merits, and should the Supreme Court…
24-6515 Joseph T. Shine-Johnson v. Shelbie Smith, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review habeas-corpus judicial-finality merits-review procedural-grounds rule-60b Whether a petitioner can use Rule 60(b) to gain Relief of Judgment from a legal error that precluded merits review when habeas relief was denied on fl…
24-6519 Larry R. Steele v. United States Postal Service, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty habeas-corpus post-conviction texas-procedure Whether the Supreme Court of Texas improperly denied post-conviction relief to a death row inmate based on procedural grounds
24-6521 Lea Welles v. Marcel Lowitsch California Denied IFP civil-restraining-order constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-bias procedural-technicality Whether the Court of Appeal erred in dismissing Petitioner's appeal based on procedural technicalities that allegedly violated due process and equal a…
24-6523 Timothy W. Wright, Jr. v. Virginia Virginia Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus Question not identified.
24-6527 Hazhar A. Sayed v. Gilbert Caley, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied IFP competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance pro-se-litigant self-defense Whether the trial court violated Mr. Saved's procedural and substantive due process rights by failing to hold a competency hearing and allowing him to…
24-6528 Marlon Abraham Rosasen v. Kingdom of Norway, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights diplomatic-service due-process international-law service-of-process tort-jurisdiction Whether a substantial part of the torts took place in the United States and whether denying motion to execute proof of service via diplomatic channels…
24-6529 Tarun Kumar Vyas v. Bryan F. Hutcheson, Sheriff, Rockingham County, Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-6531 Mary Ruffin v. Mark Henry Texas Dismissed IFP court-fees fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority jurisdictional-challenge mandamus-writ procedural-due-process Whether multiple procedural due process violations occurred in a case involving jurisdictional challenges, court fees, and judicial authority under th…
24-6534 Keith Robert Lugo v. California California Denied IFP administrative-law chevron-doctrine constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection supremacy-clause Whether the Supreme Court's Loper Bright Enterprises ruling overturning the Chevron doctrine constitutes mandatory authority for California correction…
24-6535 Christopher Vitti v. Kevin Brian Jones, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP district-court equitable-remedy statute-extension subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court tort-claim Did the ninth district court error in finding that there's no equitable remedy to make an extension of statute, and can the Supreme Court under 28 U.S…
24-6546 Robert Dorgay v. Paul Reif, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-amendments due-process-rights probation-restrictions prosecutorial-misconduct samson-precedent suspicionless-searches Does the Samson v. California decision extending 'Suspicionless Searches' to parolees apply to 'Suspicionless Seizures' by prosecutors that prevent co…
24-6547 Mitchell S. Sanderson v. Janne Myrdal, et al. North Dakota Denied IFP due-process judicial-oath jurisdiction rules-of-court service-of-process supremacy-clause Whether the Rules of Court must be followed by the Court and whether judges can violate their oath of office, due process, and the Supremacy Clause
24-6548 Kynnedi'Rae Joan Charles v. Officer Gary Wayne Chambers, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement Whether law enforcement's involvement in a private vehicle repossession potentially violates constitutional protections under the Fourth and Fourteent…
24-655 Viewpoint Neutrality Now!, et al. v. Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied first-amendment free-speech-clause limited-public-forum status-discrimination student-organization viewpoint-neutrality Whether the Eighth Circuit's interpretation of Perry Educ. Ass'n v. Perry Local Educators' Ass'n mischaracterizes status discrimination claims under t…
24-6556 Edward Farley v. Ubiratan Marinho, Jr., et al. New Hampshire Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction minimum-contacts nonresident-defendant personal-jurisdiction Did the New Hampshire Supreme Court misapprehend the two-part test for federal due process jurisdiction in determining personal jurisdiction over a no…
24-6564 Kenneth Johnson v. Seagraves Compress, Trinity Company Fifth Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-6566 Felix O. Brown, Jr. v. Ohio Ohio Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-violation due-process jury-communication state-suppression Can newly discovered material evidence revealing an unauthorized communication with a deliberating jury violate a defendant's constitutional rights an…
24-6568 Andrivia Frances Wells v. Mecklenburg County Clerk of Probate Estates, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-distribution probate-law section-1983 Can a court deny Equitable Distribution and violate Due Process Rights under the 5th and 14th Amendments?
24-6574 Mark A. Marchetti v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance exculpatory-evidence fair-trial trial-procedure Whether a trial court's failure to introduce available exculpatory evidence violates a defendant's constitutional rights to a fair trial and effective…
24-6576 Simaron D. Hill v. Todd Ishee Fourth Circuit Denied IFP 5th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process procedural-ruling slack-standard Whether the court of appeals erred in denying a certificate of appealability when the petitioner's claim meets the Slack v. McDaniel standard for a co…
24-6581 Velin Mezinev v. Bermet Tashybekova New York Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-6587 Angel Antonio Rosario v. Florida Florida Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-6594 Jermaine Alexander Foster v. Florida Florida Denied IFP atkins-standard death-penalty intellectual-disability procedural-hurdles retroactivity supreme-court-precedent Whether the Florida Supreme Court's procedural interpretation of Hall v. Florida circumvents the categorical prohibition against executing intellectua…
24-6599 William J. Trengove, Jr. v. Department of Justice Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court-circuit-split discretionary-function-exemption federal-tort-claims-act government-negligence legal-duty statutory-interpretation Whether the Department of Justice can claim the discretionary function exemption (DFE) under 28 U.S.C. § 2680(a) when demonstrating total negligence i…
24-6608 Felix Pusey v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment firearm-possession juvenile-offender mandatory-minimum second-amendment sixth-amendment Whether a Florida statute criminalizing firearm possession for individuals under 24 with prior juvenile felony adjudications violates the Second Amend…
24-6619 Mutaz Al Shara v. United States Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-procedure due-process government-accountability injunctive-relief judicial-misconduct subject-matter-jurisdiction Were the judicial proceedings fundamentally unfair due to alleged judicial misconduct and procedural irregularities in an injunctive relief case invol…
24-6647 Oscar Stilley v. Cole Jester, Arkansas Secretary of State, et al. Arkansas Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment assistance-of-counsel constitutional-rights criminal-judgment peaceful-petition voting-registration Is a void criminal judgment taken contrary to the 6th Amendment right to assistance of counsel legally sufficient to criminally punish the convicted p…
24-6667 Luke John Scott, Sr. v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure false-testimony federal-question obstructing-justice sentencing-guidelines trial-testimony Does a criminal defendant's trial testimony constitute a willful intent to provide materially false testimony as required for a two-level increase for…
24-6671 Isaac Doyle Koch v. Iowa Iowa Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process law-enforcement official-act resistance statutory-interpretation What is the difference between interfering with an official act and refusing an official crime? What is the effect, when statute disallows all physica…
24-6674 Kevin Millette v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction compassionate-release criminal-procedure federal-sentencing habeas-corpus sentencing-modification Whether a federal district court's compassionate release order can be appealed after the defendant has been released from custody
24-6678 Omari Howard Patton v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-quantity extrapolation leadership-enhancement sentencing-guidelines uncharged-participants Whether a leadership enhancement under U.S. Sentencing Guidelines 3B1.1(a) is permissible when drug quantity is extrapolated without chemist testimony…
24-6683 Ferrell Walker v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability clisby-rule constitutional-rights eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals properly applied the Clisby v. Jones precedent in determining the Certificate of Appealability and poten…
24-6688 Lawrence Lombardi v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
24-6689 Tarun Kumar Vyas v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
24-669 Alma Aracely Castaneda-Martinez v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General Eleventh Circuit Denied Amici (1) None
24-6690 Arjune Ahmed v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure defendant-rights evidence-admission federal-rule-of-evidence sexual-assault What does it mean to be 'accused of sexual assault' for purposes of Federal Rule of Evidence 413, and when can such evidence be admitted in a criminal…
24-6694 Emilio Santiago v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-decision career-offender criminal-procedure judicial-review retroactive-application sentencing-enhancement Whether an intervening Court of Appeals decision invalidating a defendant's career offender enhancement should be applied retroactively
24-6695 Edward Deloach v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-USC-1521 appellate-review criminal-law document-fraud false-document sentencing-guidelines Whether a district court errs in applying a sentencing enhancement under U.S.S.G. §2A6.1(b)(2) when the defendant's submitted document was not a lien …
24-6698 Joseph Smith v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge cross-section-challenge duren-test fourth-amendment jury-selection systemic-exclusion What is the proper test to determine a cross-section challenge under the Duren second prong, and how to resolve if intertwined within the 'systemic ex…
24-6703 Lewis Mobley v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bodily-injury crime-of-violence criminal-statute physical-force statutory-interpretation VICAR 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…
24-6722 Ashley Muse v. Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process federal-jurisdiction res-judicata state-court Whether a U.S. District Court can apply Res Judicata and Collateral Estoppel to a void State Court judgment and deny due process rights in a federal c…
24-6735 Nikolas Malachie Jordan v. Indiana Indiana Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
24-6744 Tia Lyn Nicole Sulu-Kerr v. Arizona Arizona Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-code enumerated-rights legislative-restriction second-amendment self-defense Whether a state legislature may completely eliminate the enumerated right to self-defense by limiting that justification to crimes within a specific c…
24-6757 Caed Brawner v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole Whether a sentence of mandatory life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on a teenager violates the prohibition of cruel and unusual punish…
24-6761 Eric Vaughn v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing drug-testing probation-officer special-conditions supervised-release Whether a district court can delegate to a probation officer the determination of drug testing frequency during supervised release
24-6763 Jonetta L. Grieme v. Shawn Collie, Buchanan County Drug Strike Force, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP color-of-law due-process fraudulent-concealment sexual-misconduct statute-of-limitations witness-tampering Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding the petitioner's claims time-barred despite allegations of fraudulent concealment, duress…
24-6764 Albert Johnson v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP assets employment expenses in-forma-pauperis income poverty Question not identified.
24-6766 David Lynn Griffith v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-evidence drug-purity evidence-reliability methamphetamine sentencing Whether historical drugs purchased by someone other than the defendant constitutes reliable evidence at sentencing to support the purity of methamphet…
24-6767 Brandon Green v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-recusal pro-se-defendant sixth-amendment Whether a federal district judge's refusal to recuse himself after making prejudicial statements, displaying hostility toward a pro se defendant, and …
24-6778 Jessie Hoffman v. Gary Westcott, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit Dismissed IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-method nitrogen-gassing religious-freedom rluipa Whether a method of execution that superadds psychological suffering violates the Eighth Amendment's bar on cruel and unusual punishment; Whether exec…
24-6784 Jose Sanchez Adame v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 due-process equal-protection guideline-amendment pro-se-petition sentencing-reduction Whether a district court may deny a Retroactive Amendment Reduction under 18 USC § 3582(c)(2) based solely on documents on the record that the defenda…
24-6790 Saul Douglas Briggs v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit correctly applied the good faith exception to a search warrant that allegedly lacked probable cause and nexus
24-6796 Steven Nicholson v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP covid-19-test district-court ninth-circuit sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act summary-reversal Whether the Supreme Court should summarily reverse the Ninth Circuit's decision that relied solely on a COVID-19 test for analyzing the Speedy Trial A…
24-6797 Silas Bernard Peterson v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-analysis circumstance-specific-analysis criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance sex-offender-registration SORNA QP: Did the district court err when it used a circumstance-specific analysis to determine that the petitioner's state conviction subjected him to sex …
24-6799 James Garfield Charles v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-intent drug-trafficking evidence-tampering firearm-usage jury-trial QP: Whether the government failed to prove a drug trafficking conspiracy and firearm usage in furtherance of the conspiracy
24-6803 Vincent Giattino v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-unusual-punishment due-process plea-deal sentencing-relief sixth-amendment trial-penalty Whether the lower courts erred in not finding an 'extraordinary reason' for sentencing relief under 18 U.S.C. Section 3582 based on an alleged unconst…
24-6807 Carl P. Palladinetti v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-significance court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance section-2255 Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals denial of Mr. Palladinetti's COA filing represents an issue of constitutional significance worthy of Supr…
24-6810 Faouzi Jaber v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP claim-dismissal constitutional-rights court-ruling judicial-procedure legal-argument procedural-due-process Whether the petitioner was denied procedural due process when the lower courts entered a ruling dismissing his claim without providing an opportunity …
24-6814 Jason Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure illegal-sentence plea-agreement sentencing-law Did the appeal waiver in Petitioner's plea agreement foreclose an appeal claiming that his sentence was illegal on its face and could not lawfully be …
24-6815 Tanner Lance King v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP §2255-claim appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-error ineffective-assistance plea-negotiation Whether the Fifth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability for a §2255 claim of ineffective assistance of counsel during plea negotiations w…
24-6816 Joshua Gary Anderson v. Fernando Garza, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conditions-of-confinement constitutional-suspension due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus writ-of-habeas Whether a Federal court's refusal to permit a prisoner from challenging their conditions of confinement via a writ of habeas violates the Fifth Amendm…
24-6817 Justin Byles v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
24-6821 Antoaneta Iotova and Issak Almaleh, aka Issak Izrael v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
24-6823 Thomas Caves v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-statute plain-error second-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred by applying its plain error standard to affirm a judgment of conviction for fe…
24-6824 Hansel Janel Rijo-Guerrero v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure downward-variance drug-trafficking sentencing-disparity sentencing-enhancement ussg-guidelines Whether the district court erred in imposing a two-level sentencing enhancement and denying a downward variance for a defendant convicted of drug traf…
24-6826 Timothy W. Wright v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP active-interaction child-pornography criminal-law dubin-precedent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether the term 'uses' in 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) requires an active interaction with a minor when interpreting the statute's actus reus verbs
24-6827 Charles Anthony Giovinco v. Caryn Flowers, Warden Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-deference concurrent-sentences first-step-act recidivism-reduction statutory-interpretation time-credits Whether a prisoner serving concurrent sentences for both eligible and ineligible offenses is eligible for First Step Act time credits under 18 U.S.C. …
24-6830 Khalid Alboushari v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance sentencing-guidelines Whether the Second Circuit erred in affirming a 92-month sentence without properly considering mitigating factors and procedural unreasonableness
24-6837 Katie Garding v. Montana Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction criminal-judgment custody-challenge federal-relief habeas-corpus state-court Whether a federal appellate court has jurisdiction to consider an appeal from a grant of federal habeas relief after a state court's vacatur of the un…
24-6848 Derek Steven Trumbull v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-deference judicial-interpretation regulatory-ambiguity rule-of-lenity separation-of-powers statutory-construction Do the separation of powers and the canons of statutory construction, most fundamentally the rule of lenity, permit the judiciary to defer to an agenc…
24-6849 Terrance Deandre Ellison v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP cross-examination evidentiary-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay-evidence recent-fabrication witness-credibility Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 801(d)(1)(B)(i) permits introduction of hearsay to rebut a charge of recent fabrication when statements were made wit…
24-6855 Eric Rogers v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP curative-instructions due-process fourteenth-amendment pretrial-conduct trial-court witness-identification Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment require a new trial when a witness's in-court identification of the defendant is tainted by su…
24-6861 Haitham Yousef Alhindi v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-commitment competency-to-stand-trial detention-order inter-circuit-conflict mootness Did the Eleventh Circuit err and create an inter-circuit conflict by dismissing Mr. Alhindi's appeal as moot where, pursuant to United States v. Carri…
24-6862 Brandon Durell Hardison v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence-link murder-case witness-testimony Question not identified.
24-6865 Brian Alfaro v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP contract-violation criminal-offense due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment juror-information Does the timing of earned profits constitute a criminal offense without financial harm, and did the district court's denial of juror information reque…
24-6868 In Re James Eric Mansfield Denied IFP antiterrorism-act evidentiary-law federal-court habeas-corpus state-sovereignty tenth-amendment Whether a federal court violates the Tenth Amendment by commandeering state evidentiary law and adding a heightened provision for the admissibility of…
24-6879 Zachary Michael Linan v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment judicial-fact-finding sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Did the Fifth Circuit err in affirming the district court's application of sentencing guidelines in a manner that expands judicial fact-finding beyond…
24-688 Property Matters USA, LLC v. Affordable Aerial Photography, Inc. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-fees copyright-law federal-procedure rule-41 statutory-interpretation voluntary-dismissal Whether a defendant is barred from recovering attorney's fees under 17 U.S.C. §505 because a plaintiff's Rule 41(a)(1) voluntary dismissal is not a co…
24-6902 In Re Sefe A. Almedom Denied IFP constitutional-law federal-supremacy fraud-upon-court judicial-authority stare-decisis state-supreme-court Whether the Ohio Supreme Court can override U.S. Supreme Court rulings on constitutional matters and revive unconstitutional statutes or sentences
24-6909 In Re Brittany Hudson Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-708 Zafar Iqbal v. BPOA Pennsylvania State Board of Medicine, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appeal circuit-court jurisdictional-statute medicaid preclusion supreme-court Can the 34 Circuit Court and DCWPA overrule jurisdictional statute of limitations set by US Supreme Court?
24-737 Sprout Foods, Inc. v. Gillian Davidson, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1) fdca food-labeling private-enforcement regulatory-incorporation sherman-law state-law Whether § 337's explicit bar on private enforcement of the FDCA precludes a private action seeking to enforce FDCA food labeling regulations by assert…
24-738 Juan Cartaya v. Travelers Indemnity Company Colorado Denied appraisal-process arbitration contract-interpretation dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act insurance-law Whether the insurance industry's appraisal process constitutes arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act
24-765 Robert R. Turner v. Sharon W. Jordan, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied circuit-split comity-principles constitutional-takings federal-abstention property-rights tax-foreclosure Whether federal courts must abstain from constitutional takings cases that seek to recover only the surplus value of a property that was taken pursuan…
24-773 Joshua Wade v. University of Michigan Michigan Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) campus-carry constitutional-rights firearm-possession fourteenth-amendment second-amendment sensitive-places Whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments allow a criminal ordinance that prohibits mere possession of firearms on an entire poorly-delineated univ…
24-782 Bob Jacobson, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety v. Kristin Worth, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied age-restriction constitutional-rights firearms-regulation historical-analysis public-carry second-amendment Does Minnesota's statute limiting permits for public carry of pistols to those 21 and older comport with the principles underlying the Second Amendmen…
24-814 Guillermo Gray v. Killick Group, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit Denied None Question not identified.
24-827 Broadband iTV, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit Denied alice-test claim-construction material-fact patent-eligibility patent-law summary-judgment Whether there is a patent-specific exception to Rule 56, such that courts may grant summary judgment of patent ineligibility despite genuine disputes …
24-844 Joseph Srour v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit Denied constitutional-challenge facial-unconstitutionality government-action judicial-review mootness vacatur Whether vacatur is proper where the government's voluntary conduct causes the case to become moot in the context of the review of a successful facial …
24-848 Anne Catherine Richard v. Eric John Horacius Eleventh Circuit Denied child-custody circuit-split habitual-residence international-law monasky-standard well-settled-defense Whether the Eleventh Circuit's habitual-residence analysis conflicts with the Supreme Court's standard in Monasky v. Taglieri by disregarding a child'…
24-863 Wanda L. Edwards v. South Dakota South Dakota Denied fourth-amendment passenger-rights probable-cause search-warrant traffic-stop vehicle-search Whether officers must have probable cause to search purses held or worn by passengers during traffic stops
24-869 Randall P. Ewing, Jr., et ux. v. Erik Carrier, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied appellate-review civil-procedure claim-preclusion district-court judicial-discretion motion-to-amend Whether a court should dismiss a plaintiff's claim based on an unsuccessful motion to amend in a prior lawsuit when claim preclusion does not require …
24-870 AMN Distribution, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, et al. v. Athena Cosmetics, Inc., a Delaware Corporation Ninth Circuit Denied attorney-fees fraud legal-standard misconduct prevailing-party reasonableness Should attorney time spent due to a prevailing party's fraud and misconduct be presumed unreasonable as a matter of law and excluded from prevailing p…
24-873 Angela W. DeBose v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived jury-trial preliminary-injunction rule-12b6 rule-65 temporary-restraining-order vexatious-litigant Whether the rules of Rule 65 for preliminary injunctions or temporary restraining orders require a hearing and whether the preservation of an adverse …
24-876 NVWS Properties, LLC v. Casun Invest, A.G., a Swiss Corporation Ninth Circuit Denied choice-of-law conflict-of-laws diversity-jurisdiction forum-state restatement-of-conflict-of-laws statute-of-limitations Whether a federal district court sitting in diversity jurisdiction should apply the statute of limitations based on the jurisdiction where all parties…
24-878 Rachel Breaux v. Louisiana Stadium and Exposition District, et al. Louisiana Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion appellate-review bankruptcy-court equitable-factors fair-notice judicial-estoppel Whether application of judicial estoppel violates fundamental principles of fair notice when a petitioner's duty to report a claim to bankruptcy court…
24-883 Molly Vogt, as Trustee for the Heirs and Next of Kin of Joshua Vogt, Deceased v. CO Robert Anderson, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Amici (3) adverse-inference circuit-split civil-procedure evidence-destruction spoliation summary-judgment Whether a jury should decide the weight of an adverse inference from the intentional destruction of evidence that could have contradicted the spoliato…
24-886 Christopher Schurr v. Peter Lyoya, Personal Representative for the Estate of Patrick Lyoya, Deceased Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived deadly-force law-enforcement pleading-stage qualified-immunity summary-judgment video-evidence Whether Scott v. Harris permits courts to resolve qualified immunity at the pleading stage based on objective video evidence that demonstrates the imp…
24-893 Eric Jamie Katz v. Department of Justice Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-judge due-process federal-circuit hostile-work-environment merit-systems-protection-board whistleblower-retaliation Whether the Federal Circuit erred in denying a rehearing en banc regarding a whistleblower's hostile work environment claim against the Department of …
24-894 Michelle Avery Bey v. David Harper, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived 18-USC-1961 circuit-court district-court federal-jurisdiction racketeering statute-of-limitations Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in declaring federal questions under 18 U.S.C. §§ 1961 and 1962 should be adjudicated by a county appraiser and whethe…
24-912 Earl Casperson Meggison v. Florida Florida Denied Response Waived constitutional-law criminal-procedure ex-post-facto removal-provision sex-offender-registration state-courts Whether the Court should resolve the question of whether applying a more onerous sex offender registration removal provision violates ex post facto co…
24-939 Kendall Streb v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining reasonable-jurists sentencing-guidelines Is the 'reasonable jurists' test being administered faithfully and consistently across federal circuits, and do Lafler, Frye, and Padilla precedents r…
24-945 Jenn-Ching Luo v. Owen J. Roberts School District, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-issue default-judgment federal-rules-civil-procedure judicial-procedure pre-answer-motion void-judgment Whether bombing courts or shooting judges is a holy mission to counter a corrupt judicial system?
24-947 Chanel Wiley v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights court-precedent criminal-procedure jury-prejudice ninth-circuit physical-restraints Whether a criminal defendant whose government imposed restraint is perceptible to a jury must show actual prejudice, or whether prejudice inheres
24-950 Urvashi Bhagat v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-standards due-process expert-testimony innovation nutrition-arts patent-law Whether lower courts erred in prejudicing innovation in nutrition arts by failing to uphold constitutional standards for patent advancement and due pr…
24-951 Sergeant Fred Cueto, et al. v. Hasmik Jasmine Chinaryan, Individually and as Guardian ad Litem for NEC, a Minor, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-procedure harmless-error judicial-review standard-of-review Does the appellant bear the burden of proving prejudicial error in a civil case, or does the burden shift to the appellee to demonstrate harmless erro…
24-954 Anthony Vetri v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response Waived conflict-of-interest criminal-defense cronic-standard effective-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether a defendant must show actual prejudice or can rely on a presumption of prejudice when some, but not all, attorneys in a multi-attorney represe…
24-955 Gabino Ramos Hernandez v. Phillip Causey Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 bivens-action constitutional-rights federal-employee state-action willful-participation Whether the rule in Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co. regarding state action through willful participation is still controlling law, and how federal employee…
24-956 Los Angeles County, California, et al. v. Peter Woods Nyarecha, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived cell-check-policy constitutional-violation monell-doctrine municipal-liability section-1983 summary-judgment Whether video evidence from a single cell block on one night is sufficient to establish a municipal custom or practice under Monell liability
24-963 Elvin Torres-Estrada v. United States First Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion Whether the inaccurate advice by a criminal defendant's attorney to reject a favorable plea agreement during plea negotiations, with the prosecutor's …
24-980 William Jones, Jr., Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Police Officer for the Los Angeles Police Department v. Ymelda Elena, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived excessive-force law-enforcement ninth-circuit qualified-immunity summary-judgment video-evidence Whether a court's obligation to view evidence in the light most favorable to the plaintiff allows ignoring undisputed clear video evidence that would …
24-989 Cedrick Frazier, et al. v. Southeast Georgia Health System, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived due-process electronic-stored-information fraud-upon-court inherent-authority sanctions seventh-amendment Whether a federal court can impose case-ending sanctions based on inherent authority for alleged ESI fabrication when a colorable medical malpractice …
24-995 MOAC Mall Holdings LLC v. Transform Holdco LLC, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived asset-sale bankruptcy-code circuit-conflict lease-assignment section-365 stipulation-waiver Whether parties must invoke a particular phrase and explicitly acknowledge all possible consequences for a stipulation to constitute waiver; and Wheth…
24M73 Hazem Garada v. District of Columbia Board of Medicine District of Columbia Presumed Complete None
24M74 Thomas Ostly v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None
24M75 Donald J. Englert, II v. Reginald Bishop, Superintendent, Five Points Correctional Facility Second Circuit Presumed Complete None
24M76 I. M. v. Illinois Illinois Presumed Complete None