Conference: 2025-06-05
64 cases — 3 granted, 61 denied/dismissed, 0 pending
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-872 | John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Joseph Clifton Smith | Eleventh Circuit | Granted | Amici (11)Relisted (3) | atkins-v-virginia criminal-procedure habeas-corpus intellectual-disability iq-testing preponderance-of-evidence | 1. Whether, under a proper application of Atkins , a State can require a claimant to prove an IQ of 70 or less by a preponderance of the evidence. 2.… | 22.5 |
| 24-820 | Daniel Rutherford v. United States | Third Circuit | Granted | Amici (7)Relisted (2) | circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | The compassionate-release statute permits courts to reduce a prisoner's sentence if the court finds that "extraordinary and compelling reasons" warr… | 18.0 |
| 24-860 | Johnnie Markel Carter v. United States | Third Circuit | Granted | Amici (6)Relisted (2) | district-courts extraordinary-and-compelling federal-prisoners nonretroactive-law sentence-reduction sentencing-commission | Whether the Sentencing Commission acted within its expressly delegated authority by permitting district courts to consider, in narrowly cabined circum… | 17.0 |
| 24-867 | IQVIA Inc. v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al. | California | Dismissed | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-procedure due-process employment-law noncompete-agreement personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction | A noncompete agreement imposes limitations on an employee's ability to compete against his or her employer immediately after separating from the compa… | 16.0 |
| 24-584 | Annette Chambers-Smith, Director, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction v. Kayla Jean Ayers | Sixth Circuit | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) | aedpa due-diligence factual-predicate federal-review habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations | A person in state custody has one year to file a habeas petition. Usually, that one year runs from "the date on which the judgment became final by the… | 15.5 |
| 24-780 | Anthony Blue v. New York | New York | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | constitutional-right criminal-trial defendant-understanding right-to-counsel sentencing-range waiver | Whether a valid waiver of the constitutional right to counsel at trial requires that the defendant understood, at the time of the waiver, the "range o… | 14.0 |
| 24-936 | Andrew Hanson, et al. v. District of Columbia, et al. | District of Columbia | Denied | Amici (3) | arms-ban common-use constitutional-rights dangerous-weapons second-amendment self-defense | Whether the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution allows a categorical ban on arms that are indisputably common throughout the United Sta… | 13.5 |
| 24-786 | Republican National Committee, et al. v. Faith Genser, et al. | Pennsylvania | Denied | Relisted (2) | constitutional-interpretation elections-clause electors-clause judicial-review legislative-power state-election-law | The Elections and Electors Clauses of the U.S. Constitution vest the power to set federal election rules in the legislature of each state. Exercising … | 11.0 |
| 24-1125 | ISS Aviation, Inc., Wyoming, et al. v. Bell Textron, Inc. | Fifth Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure contract-breach good-faith independent-representative quantum-meruit summary-judgment | Did the district court misapply Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 12 and 56 by ruling that no reasonable jury could find that Bell breached its contrac… | 8.5 |
| 24-806 | Audio Evolution Diagnostics, Inc. v. United States, et al. | Federal Circuit | Denied | Amici (4)Response Waived | None | Applying this Court's rulings in Alice and Mayo, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims invalidated plaintiff's patents—not for a business method or compute… | 7.5 |
| 24-940 | Timothy L. Blixseth v. Montana Department of Revenue | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Amici (1) | bankruptcy-law circuit-split congressional-power eleventh-amendment involuntary-bankruptcy sovereign-immunity | Whether the Eleventh Amendment prevents Congress from authorizing citizens to collect damages against states that force citizens into bankruptcy with … | 6.5 |
| 24-311 | Protect Our Parks, Inc., et al. v. Sean Duffy, Secretary of Transportation, et al. | Seventh Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2) | agency-deference environmental-review federal-action nepa-compliance public-trust-doctrine segmentation | 1. Whether the Obama Presidential Center project (the "OPC"), which includes four structures constructed over 19.3 acres of Frederick Law Olmsted's Ja… | 6.0 |
| 24-808 | Coney Island Auto Parts Unlimited, Inc. v. Jeanne Ann Burton, Chapter 7 Trustee for Vista-Pro Automotive, LLC | Sixth Circuit | Judgment Issued | Relisted (2) | circuit-split civil-procedure default-judgment personal-jurisdiction rule-60 void-judgment | Well-settled legal principles dictate that a judgment entered in the absence of personal jurisdiction is void. Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(4… | 6.0 |
| 24-1055 | William Becker, et al. v. City of Hillsboro, Missouri | Eighth Circuit | Denied | appellate-review constitutional-law land-use-regulation property-rights regulatory-taking takings-clause | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals declined to follow this Court's opinion in Yee v. City of Escondido, 503 U.S. 519 (1992) by holding that Petitioners h… | 5.5 | |
| 24-1060 | Leticia T. Moreno, et al. v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, Division Seven, et al. | California | Denied | alien-registration confidentiality federal-preemption immigration-law regulatory-authority standing | Federal law fully occupies the field of alien registration. Arizona v. United States, 567 U.S. 387, . 401 (2012). Congress, the Attorney General, and … | 5.5 | |
| 24-949 | Navellier & Associates, Inc., et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission | First Circuit | Denied | anti-fraud-provisions disgorgement investor-protection materiality-standard sec-enforcement securities-law | 1. Whether the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") can seek, and the courts are authorized, under 15 U.S.C. §78u(d)(5) or §78u(d)(7) or Liu v.… | 5.5 | |
| 24-962 | Autumn Adams v. Kevin Gugliano, Individually and in His Official Capacity as an Officer of the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department, et al. | Eighth Circuit | Denied | bodily-injury civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment official-immunity police-misconduct | 1. Where officers pull a citizen to the ground who is not resisting and is compliant with the officers, causing citizen serious injury, does the citiz… | 5.5 | |
| 24A969 | Judy A. Brannberg, et al. v. Jefferson County Public Schools, et al. | Colorado | Denied | charter-schools due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct section-1983 sherman-antitrust-act | 1. Whether this Court should grant an emergency injunction to prevent Douglas County School District (""DCSD"), Jefferson County Public Schools ("Jeff… | 5.5 | |
| 24M90 | Neil Cuff v. Florida A&M University & Board of Trustees, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | None | 5.5 | ||
| 24-1079 | Geoffrey Gray, et al. v. Washington State Department of Transportation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review civil-procedure ex-parte-young injunctive-relief qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity | 1. Should this Court grant certiorari to correct the error of the Court of Appeals below, where the Court of Appeals, contrary to binding authority of… | 3.5 |
| 24-1087 | David B. Porter v. F. Tyler Sergent, et al. | Sixth Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | disciplinary-hearing due-process federal-funding procedural-fairness state-action title-ix | May a private college which receives federal funding always rely upon a "no state action" defense in denying its employee due process or procedural fa… | 3.5 |
| 24-1129 | Joan Carol Lipin v. Arthur Dodson Wisehart, et al. | Sixth Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | district-court-discretion prefiling-judgment res-judicata rooker-feldman-doctrine rule-41-dismissal voluntary-dismissal | A voluntary dismissal without prejudice under Rule 41(a)(1)(A)(i), (B) terminates the entire action, inclusive of all claims, without a court order, a… | 3.5 |
| 24-1135 | Sara González Flavell v. Jim Young Kim, et al. | District of Columbia | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-rights due-process functional-immunity international-law judicial-discretion subject-matter-jurisdiction | Courts are required to respect the Constitutional rights of all persons. In November 2020 Petitioner filed complaint in D.C. Superior Court alleging c… | 3.5 |
| 24-6897 | Joshua Michael Faust v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Denied | IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felon-in-possession felony-conviction firearm-prohibition second-amendment | Whether, as the Eighth Circuit held, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (which prohibits any felon from possessing firearms) is invariably constitutional both faci… | 0.5 |
| 24-6505 | Jerome Jones v. United States | Fifth Circuit | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure plea-agreement sentencing-error statutory-right | Can a criminal defendant knowingly and voluntarily forfeit his right to appeal the district court's yet-to-be-made errors as part of his plea agreemen… | -1.0 |
| 24-7122 | Michael Samuel Dekelbaum v. United States | Fifth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process miscarriage-of-justice plea-bargain sentencing | 1. Should the U.S. Supreme Court recognize a "miscarriage of justice" exception to a waiver of appeal provision in a plea bargain for due process sent… | -1.5 |
| 24-7147 | Idris Quintell Wilkes v. United States | Sixth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act cocaine-definition controlled-substances due-process sentencing-enhancement state-vs-federal-law | I. Michigan defines cocaine to include its steroisomers. Federal law defines cocaine to include its optical and geometric isomers. Does Michigan law s… | -1.5 |
| 24-7148 | Julia Greenberg v. United States | Second Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-statute document-fraud false-statement federal-criminal-law immigration-law statutory-interpretation | Whether the first paragraph of 18 U.S.C.A. §1546(a) reaches "authentic" immigration documents that are generated following a false statement (as oppos… | -1.5 |
| 24-7149 | Samuel James Weaver v. United States | Sixth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split federal-courts judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | What standard of review should apply when a district court applies a federal sentencing guideline to undisputed facts? | -1.5 |
| 24-7166 | David Eugene Rush, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver consideration constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement | Plea agreements are governed by traditional contract principles — but unlike ordinary contracts, they involve the waiver of fundamental constitutiona… | -1.5 |
| 24-6124 | Bradley Dorman v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | court-access equal-protection first-amendment prison-litigation-reform-act three-strike-rule younger-abstention | 1). Is the application of the Prison litigation Reform Act ("PLRA "), "Three- Strike " Rule, 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g) to Petitioner 's prior dismissals un… | -4.0 |
| 24-6275 | Johnny Hamilton v. Georgia | Georgia | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | brady-violation constitutional-protection due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-emergency reckless-conduct | 1. Does Georgia's reckless conduct statute, O.C.G.A. 16-5-60(b), provide adequate notice of prohibited conduct and sufficient guidance to prevent arbi… | -4.0 |
| 24-6318 | Marcus Crowder v. Georgia | Georgia | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | acquittal constitutional-law criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy fifth-amendment malice-murder | Whether the state of Georgia violates the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution's Double Jeopardy Clause when it indicts in multiplicity o… | -4.0 |
| 24-6365 | Timothy M. Gemelli v. Perry Nicosia, District Attorney, 34th Judicial District Court, et al. | Fifth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | brady-violation constitutional-tort court-order-disobedience due-process evidence-suppression prosecutorial-misconduct | Although he was acquitted in Louisiana, does Gemelli allege a Brady violation against the Louisiana prosecutors who disobeyed Three Court Orders to ha… | -4.0 |
| 24-6570 | Andrew Jeffery Helmin v. Yuemin Xu | Minnesota | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | child-custody constitutional-law due-process equal-protection icwa-principles native-american-rights | 1. Did the Minnesota courts violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses by prioritizing Respondent's cultural backgrou… | -4.0 |
| 24-6892 | Johnathan Anton Williams v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | GVR | IFP | commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-conviction firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the statute prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term… | -4.5 |
| 24-6925 | Arthur J. Burton v. Melody Johnson, et al. | Sixth Circuit | Denied | IFP | district-court judicial-discretion motion-procedure prisoner-rights pro-se reconsideration | Did the peyyel - QUESTIONS) PRESENTE 5. Court (1). of pp eal For sixth Circult of tne Mort wn reale oF Law in, Tatera Corpev, af pelt eh E.3d 04 (6th … | -4.5 |
| 24-6929 | Michael James Carson v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | Denied | IFP | custodial-interrogation due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment illegal-seizure probable-cause | 1. ) Did the lower courts erroneously failed to acknowledge and apply the correct laws and facts surrounding Petitioners circumstances during his cus… | -4.5 |
| 24-6931 | Ohio, ex rel. David E. Feathers v. Eleventh District Court of Appeals of Ohio, Portage County, et al. | Ohio | Denied | IFP | custodial-supervision due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection separation-of-powers writ-of-mandamus | WHETHER THE USE OF A SHAM LEGAL PROCESS TO PROCESS FRAUDULENT APPEALS BY THE ELEVENTH DISTRICT COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO WARRANTED THE ISSUANCE OF A WR… | -4.5 |
| 24-6934 | Frederick Pina v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. | California | Denied | IFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights contract-clause default-judgment due-process judicial-fraud | 1. Whether the California Supreme Court's failure to enforce a fully executed contract—formed through mutual assent and valid consideration—violates t… | -4.5 |
| 24-6935 | Billy Minh Tran v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | Denied | IFP | aedpa-limitation constitutional-procedure court-jurisdiction judicial-fraud judicial-qualification oath-of-office | (1) Does an elected judge must take the oath of office? (2) If yes, then must that judge sign the document in the present of the officer who administ… | -4.5 |
| 24-6938 | Tarun Kumar Vyas v. Bryan F. Hutcheson, Sheriff, Rockingham County, Virginia | Fourth Circuit | Denied | IFP | None | Question not identified. | -4.5 |
| 24-6946 | Logan Dyjak v. Stacey Horstman, et al. | Seventh Circuit | Denied | IFP | bodily-movement constitutional-claim due-process fourteenth-amendment procedural-rights summary-judgment | 1. Whether a court must provide notice and an opportunity to be heard under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56(e)(2) when awarding summary judgment. … | -4.5 |
| 24-6947 | Harry Lee Goldsboro, II v. Florida | Florida | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure discovery-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment | Question not identified. | -4.5 |
| 24-6948 | Pamela Anai Carrillo v. Texas Juvenile Justice Department, et al. | Fifth Circuit | Denied | IFP | civil-rights federal-rules-procedure section-1981 section-2000e state-action vicarious-liability | Whether the lower courts abused their discretion by failing to apply the vicarious liability principle enunciated in Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662 (… | -4.5 |
| 24-6949 | Kendrick Christmas v. Tim Hooper, Warden | Fifth Circuit | Denied | IFP | district-attorney equitable-tolling habeas-corpus pro-se supervisory-writ warden | WHETHER KENDRICK CHRISTMAS'S FEDERAL WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS IS ENTITLED TO EQUITABLE TOLLING DURING THE TIME HE FILED FOR SUPERVISORY WRITS IN THE LOUI… | -4.5 |
| 24-7207 | In Re Willie C. Simpson | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights filing-fee habeas-corpus state-custody supremacy-clause suspension-clause | Question not identified. | -4.5 | |
| 24-7234 | In Re David Diehl | Denied | IFP | district-court-jurisdiction federal-prisoners habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief second-successive-claims statutory-interpretation | 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. … | -4.5 | |
| 24-6222 | Donat Caleb Porter v. North Carolina | North Carolina | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights controlled-substance exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment pro-se-litigation state-police-powers | 1. The petitioner asks this Court to provide more clarity to current federal case law that has been established regarding the exceptions of exigent ci… | -6.0 |
| 24-6590 | John Dwayne Garvin v. Levern Cohen, Warden | Fourth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights declaratory-judgment grand-jury habeas-corpus judicial-process void-indictment | 1. Whether a South Carolina Supreme Court's Order Declining to Entertain a Complaint for a Declaratory Judgment to Determine the Legality and Constitu… | -6.0 |
| 24-6675 | Pierre Cornelius Stewart v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | collateral-review constitutional-review federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-deference state-court | Federal Courts must defer to state court factual findings unless an evidentiary hearing has been made after a hearing on the merits of a factual issue… | -6.0 |
| 24-6704 | Brian Jury v. Ohio | Ohio | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression prosecutorial-misconduct | This case poses a constitutional question of national importance. Did the Ohio Sixth District Court of Appeals impose an improper and unduly burdensom… | -6.0 |
| 24-6804 | Lawrence White v. Office of Personnel Management | Federal Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | administrative-law agency-decision judicial-review mail-notification procedural-compliance proof-of-service | Does the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Violate Work-product Doctrine by Failing to Disclose that they could be using a different legal stan… | -6.0 |
| 24-6923 | Christopher M. Alexander v. Louisiana | Louisiana | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | None | Question not identified. | -6.5 |
| 24-6998 | Eric Ellis v. City of White Settlement, Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment passenger-arrest probable-cause traffic-stop unreasonable-seizure warrantless-seizure | 1. Whether the warrantless seizure of a suspect 's children without probable cause during a traffic stop violates the Fourth Amendment. 2. Whether a… | -6.5 |
| 24-7008 | Anthony Michael Branch v. Fannie Mae, et al. | Massachusetts | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process foreclosure non-judicial-foreclosure notice-of-default property-rights | This Court has determined that the loss of an individual's home constitutes a final, lasting deprivation of property entitling him/her to the protecti… | -6.5 |
| 24-7063 | Randy W. Duck v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | eighth-circuit ineffective-assistance juror-impartiality jury-bias prosecutorial-bias trial-counsel | Mr. Duck alleged that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to remove presumed impartial jurors that sat on the jury. Should they have been di… | -6.5 |
| 24-7146 | Anida Gilowski v. United States | Fifth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-proceedings due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment property-forfeiture sixth-amendment | I . WHETHER THE PETITIONER 'S FIFTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS AND HER SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL OR PROCEEDINGS WERE VIOLATED WHEN … | -6.5 |
| 24-7150 | Oscar Williams, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-conviction extortion federal-statute u.s.c.-section-2251 u.s.c.-section-875 | WHETHER THE PRODUCTION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY BY THE ALLEGED VICTIMS SUPPORTS A CONVICTION UNDER TITLE 18 U.S.C. SECTION 2251(a)? WHETHER PETITIONER, O… | -6.5 |
| 24-7160 | Prentiss Jackson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights federal-law fourth-amendment marijuana-search state-law vehicle-search | Whether it is constitutional to search a vehicle for the odor of marijuana alone, in a state that has legalized marijuana for possession, for consumpt… | -6.5 |
| 24-7161 | Todd Sheffler v. United States | Seventh Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law federal-investigation fowler-standard post-offense-evidence statutory-interpretation | First, in Fowler v. United States , 563 U.S. 668 (2011), this Court held that 18 U.S.C. § 1512(a) required the government to prove a "reasonable likel… | -6.5 |
| 24-7162 | Deshawn Whited v. United States | Sixth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-robbery district-court fair-trial right-to-counsel sixth-circuit uncharged-evidence | Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the District Court was correct in permitting evidence of an uncharged attempted robbe… | -6.5 |
| 24-7167 | Derek Rogers v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense ineffective-assistance section-2255 sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether a conviction under Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-18-406(2)(b)(I), (D(C) can serve as a predicate "controlled substance offense" for career offender… | -6.5 |
| 24-7203 | Michael Inzitari v. Connecticut | Connecticut | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-split child-pornography constitutional-review dost-factors lascivious-exhibition sexual-conduct | When the six factors of United States v. Dost, 636 F. Supp. 828 (S.D. Cal. 1986), are read to a jury as the means of obtaining a conviction solely bas… | -6.5 |