Conference: 2025-09-29

829 cases — 5 granted, 819 denied/dismissed, 5 pending

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23-1201 CC/Devas (Mauritius) Limited, et al. v. Antrix Corp. Ltd., et al. Ninth Circuit Judgment Issued Relisted (2) civil-procedure due-process federal-courts foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether plaintiffs must prove minimum contacts before federal courts may assert personal jurisdiction over foreign states sued under the Foreign Sover…
24-1001 Cotter Corporation, et al. v. Nikki Steiner Mazzocchio, et al. Eighth Circuit Pending CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) atomic-energy-act federal-preemption nuclear-safety price-anderson-act standard-of-care tort-liability Whether federal nuclear safety regulations preempt state tort standards of care in public liability actions
24-1016 RiseandShine Corporation, dba Rise Brewing v. PepsiCo, Inc. Second Circuit Pending CVSGResponse RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split federal-trademark intellectual-property likelihood-of-confusion statutory-interpretation trademark-law Whether trademark strength is a question of fact in a likelihood-of-confusion analysis under 15 U.S.C. § 1114
24-1020 Uber Technologies, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, et al. v. Amie Drammeh, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split erie-doctrine federal-courts judicial-prediction procedural-law state-law Whether federal courts can predict changes in state law under Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins
24-1027 Invenergy Thermal LLC, et al. v. Casey Sixkiller, Director, Washington State Department of Ecology Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) None Question not identified.
24-1031 Roland Omar Gramajo-Reyes v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General Fifth Circuit Denied None
24-1046 Jason Wolford, et al. v. Anne E. Lopez, Attorney General of Hawaii Ninth Circuit Granted Amici (35) bruen-test circuit-split concealed-carry private-property second-amendment text-history-tradition Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that Hawaii may presumptively prohibit handgun carry by licensed concealed carry permit holders on private …
24-1050 Estate of Te’Juan Johnson v. Amanda Rakes, Administrator of the Estate of Amylyn Slaymaker and Next Friend to the Minor Children G. C. and M. C. Seventh Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment police-duty qualified-immunity state-created-danger Whether a theory of liability under the Fourteenth Amendment based on 'state-created danger' is incompatible with the purpose of the Due Process Claus…
24-1053 In Re Sara Ann Edmondson Denied Relisted (2) article-iii color-of-law conspiracy mandamus third-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether the Supreme Court will exercise its power to issue a writ of mandamus on the Third Circuit to reinstate Article III claims and direct investig…
24-1061 Project Veritas, et al. v. Nathan Vasquez, in His Official Capacity as Multnomah County District Attorney, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) content-neutrality first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny newsgathering speech-restriction supreme-court-precedent Did the Ninth Circuit err by holding that Oregon's prohibition of unannounced recordings is content neutral and inconsistent with Supreme Court preced…
24-1066 Sam Sarkis Solakyan v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied circuit-split criminal-law federal-statute honest-services-fraud property-harm statutory-interpretation Whether a private individual may be convicted of honest-services fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1346 where the alleged scheme to defraud did not contemplate …
24-1067 John Wetzel, et al. v. Roy L. Williams Third Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights death-row eighth-amendment mental-illness qualified-immunity solitary-confinement Was it clearly established for qualified immunity purposes that long-term solitary confinement for a death-row inmate with a mental illness violated t…
24-1073 Ghislaine Maxwell v. United States Second Circuit Denied Amici (1) contract-interpretation district-court federal-prosecutors plea-agreement prosecutorial-promise santobello-principle Under Santobello and common principles of contract interpretation, does a promise on behalf of the 'United States' or the 'Government' that is made by…
24-1082 Aghee William Smith, II v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) confrontation-clause constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process trial-rights witness-unavailability Whether a living witness can be deemed 'unavailable' under the Confrontation Clause if the government has made no effort to compel the witness to appe…
24-1089 Feanyichi E. Uvukansi v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) burden-of-proof due-process habeas-corpus materiality-standard perjured-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the state courts improperly required the petitioner to prove the materiality of perjured testimony and disregarded precedent on prosecutorial …
24-1092 Mungo Homes, LLC v. Amanda Leigh Huskins, et vir South Carolina Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration contract-law federal-arbitration-act public-policy severability state-court Whether the South Carolina Supreme Court erred in applying a severability rule that disfavors arbitration and by creating a state-specific public poli…
24-1093 Ashlee Marie Mumford v. Iowa Iowa Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) dog-sniff fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search Whether a dog sniff of the interior of a lawfully stopped vehicle violates the Fourth Amendment absent consent to the sniff or probable cause to belie…
24-1107 Jonathan Peoples v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-behavior overdetention Whether the Eighth Amendment provides the sort of explicit textual source of constitutional protection for 'overdetention' such that the Eighth Amendm…
24-1119 Andrew Charles Nisbet v. Spirit Rose Bridger Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) child-abduction custody-determination family-law habitual-residence hague-convention international-law Whether the Hague Convention authorizes a determination that children with no habitual residence are unprotected against international child abduction
24-1120 Ohio, ex rel. Dave Yost, Attorney General of Ohio v. Rover Pipeline, LLC, et al. Ohio Denied certification-waiver clean-water-act federal-licensing natural-gas-act state-sovereignty water-quality-laws To start the States' waiver timeframe under 33 U.S.C. §1341(a)(1), must an applicant submit a valid certification request that satisfies applicable le…
24-1122 Robin Root v. Jeremy Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split fifth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus miranda-warning supreme-court-precedent Whether the Michigan Court of Appeals misapplied Federal precedent in admitting post-Miranda statements under Elstad despite Seibert, and whether the …
24-1124 Christopher Thomas v. Tracy Pachote Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) fourth-amendment officer-assistance qualified-immunity split-second-decision supreme-court-precedent use-of-force Whether an officer can use force to assist another officer under the Fourth Amendment when making a split-second decision with incomplete information,…
24-1130 Kingdom of Spain v. Blasket Renewable Investments LLC, et al. District of Columbia Pending CVSGAmici (5) arbitration-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act forum-non-conveniens international-law jurisdiction sovereign-consent Whether §1605(a)(6) allows United States courts to assert jurisdiction over a foreign sovereign without determining whether the sovereign consented to…
24-1131 Fei Fei Fan v. Yan Yao Jiang, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied circuit-split equitable-tolling fourteenth-amendment thirteenth-amendment trafficking-victims visa-dependency Whether the Ninth Circuit's interpretation of 18 U.S.C. § 1595(c) forecloses equitable tolling and continuing violation principles for trafficking vic…
24-1132 Purdue Pharma L.P., et al. v. Accord Healthcare, Inc. Federal Circuit Denied federal-circuit non-obviousness obviousness patent-law pharmaceutical-innovation secondary-considerations Whether the objective indicia of non-obviousness should be analyzed flexibly to combat hindsight bias or subject to the Federal Circuit's rigid rules …
24-1133 M. P., By and Through Her Parent, Natural Guardian, and Next Friend, Jennifer Pin v. Meta Platforms Inc., fka Facebook, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) algorithmic-bias common-law-tort content-recommendation racial-violence section-230 social-media-liability Do M.P.'s state common law tort claims adequately plead conduct by Facebook in recommending content and groups to Dylann Roof that fall outside of Sec…
24-1140 Peter Allan, Sr., et al. v. Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-rights institutionalized-persons mootness-doctrine religious-land-use rluipa Whether the Eighth Circuit's mootness standard conflicts with Supreme Court precedent regarding policy amendments during litigation
24-1144 Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S., aka Halkbank v. United States Second Circuit Denied Amici (3) None Question not identified.
24-1145 Live Nation Entertainment, Inc., et al. v. Skot Heckman, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration-agreement contract-interpretation federal-arbitration-act mass-arbitration ninth-circuit severability-doctrine Whether the FAA protects all arbitration agreements or only traditional bilateral arbitration agreements and whether the FAA preempts California's sev…
24-1147 Glenn Bowles, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge court-of-claims declaratory-judgment ex-parte-young standing state-officials Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously held that Petitioners lacked standing to sue under Ex parte Young when naming the Governor and …
24-1149 T. Kimberly Williams v. Elton Corporation, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived coverage-provision employee-retirement erisa multiple-employer-plan pension-plan statutory-interpretation Whether a pension plan designed for three generations of a family is a multiple employer plan under ERISA and subject to its coverage provisions
24-1150 Clyde O. Carter, Jr. v. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Secretary of Labor, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law burden-of-proof employment-retaliation federal-railroad-safety-act judicial-review whistleblower-protection Whether the burden of proof in a Federal Railroad Safety Act whistleblower complaint is prima facie or preponderance of evidence
24-1151 BDO USA, LLP v. New England Carpenters Guaranteed Annuity and Pension Funds, et al. Second Circuit Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) auditing-standards fact-specific-analysis financial-misstatement materiality-standard professional-compliance securities-fraud Whether the materiality requirement for securities fraud liability is satisfied per se by an auditor's statement of compliance with professional stand…
24-1153 Corey Schirod Smith v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence postconviction-relief strickland-standard Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals misapply Strickland, and its progeny, by failing to consider in its 'prejudice inquiry' the unrebutted, nonc…
24-1157 Taylor Packwood, et al. v. County of Contra Costa, California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure domestic-relations due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud-exception rooker-feldman Whether there is a fraud exception to the Rooker-Feldman doctrine in domestic relations cases raising claims of a violation of due process of law
24-1158 Carol A. Lewis, et al. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services District of Columbia Denied appellate-procedure article-iii circuit-split class-action mootness standing Whether named plaintiffs in a class action retain standing to appeal a district court's denial of class certification when the named plaintiffs' claim…
24-1160 William R. Lott v. Maria V. Lott Virginia Denied disability-pay divorce-proceedings federal-preemption state-jurisdiction supremacy-clause veterans-benefits May a state court enforce a contractual agreement entered into between a disabled veteran and his former spouse, which agreement obligates the veteran…
24-1161 RunItOneTime LLC, fka Maverick Gaming LLC v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1) administrative-procedure-act circuit-conflict federal-agency-action judicial-review rule-19 sovereign-immunity Whether Rule 19 requires dismissal of APA suits challenging federal agency action whenever a nonparty who benefited from that action asserts sovereign…
24-1162 Gina Robinson v. Fashion District Dental, et al. New York Denied Response Waived 13th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights-violation constitutional-rights court-of-appeals jurisdiction-refusal Whether the New York Court of Appeals violated constitutional rights by improperly refusing jurisdiction and dismissing a case involving alleged 13th …
24-1165 Abraham Winter v. Laboratory Corporation of America, et al. New York Denied commercial-enterprise creditor-definition debt-collection fdcpa ftc-authority principal-purpose-test Is an entity a creditor under FDCPA if they are not owed a debt, and should the test for 'name other than his own' follow the FTC's opinion or the sta…
24-1168 M. D., By Next Friend, Sarah R. Stukenberg, et al. v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-contempt compliance court-order due-process judicial-procedure sanctions Whether civil contempt sanctions imposed through proceedings that undisputedly comported with civil due process may be affirmed even if the contempt o…
24-1169 Amanda Jackson v. Methodist Health Service Corporation, dba UnityPoint Health - Central Illinois Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived covid-19 executive-orders mitigation-measures public-health state-agencies workplace-safety Whether Executive Orders of the Illinois Governor requesting state agencies and public employers to impose mitigation measures allegedly to prevent th…
24-1170 LaQuan Stederick Johnson v. Elaine Terry, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-remedy bivens-remedy constitutional-rights federal-courts prison-officials special-factors Does the existence of the BOP's Administrative Remedy Program foreclose a Bivens action where prison officials prevent the inmate from accessing that …
24-1171 Nursing Home Care Management, Inc., dba Prestige Home Care Agency, et al. v. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Secretary of Labor Third Circuit Denied department-of-labor employee-compensation fair-labor-standards-act notice-requirement portal-to-portal-act willful-violation Whether an employer's single prior interaction with the DOL is sufficient to establish notice of FLSA provisions for future alleged willful violations…
24-1174 Chelsea A. Hamilton v. David Steiner, Postmaster General Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived causation civil-rights employment-discrimination retaliation supreme-court-precedent title-vi Did the Fifth Circuit err in affirming the dismissal of Hamilton's Title VI retaliation claim by improperly requiring proof of causation inconsistent …
24-1176 Fabian Lagunas Espinoza, et al. v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived None
24-1178 U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for the RMAC Trust, Series 2016-CTT v. Cassandra Fox New York Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-law due-process mortgage-foreclosure property-rights retroactive-legislation takings-clause Does retroactive application of CPLR 205-a(a) violate the Takings Clause and Due Process Clause of the Constitution?
24-1179 United States, ex rel. Ganesa Rosales, et al. v. Amedisys North Carolina, L.L.C., et al. Fourth Circuit Denied false-claims-act federal-civil-procedure first-to-file-rule government-intervention qui-tam subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether an action asserting False Claims Act claims is a 'related action' under the First to File rule when the government declines intervention and t…
24-1183 Antonio Lamont Lightfoot v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) categorical-approach circuit-split federal-criminal-law predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement three-strikes-law Whether a categorical mismatch occurs when the elements of a predicate state offense criminalize conduct outside the enumerated offense under the thre…
24-1184 In Re Grand Jury Investigation Eleventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction attorney-client-privilege discovery-order grand-jury-subpoena perlman-exception third-party-compliance Whether Perlman permits an immediate appeal of orders compelling both the objecting privilegeholder and a disinterested third party to comply with a g…
24-1190 Syngenta Crop Protections, LLC, et al. v. Douglas Nemeth, et al. Pennsylvania Denied Amici (3)Response Waived commerce-clause constitutional-law due-process out-of-state-business personal-jurisdiction state-registration Whether the Commerce Clause permits a State to condition an out-of-state company's right to do business on submission to personal jurisdiction, and wh…
24-1193 In Re Sean Murphy, et al. Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure circuit-court constitutional-rights judicial-recusal judicial-review procedural-due-process Whether the Sixth Circuit clerks had the authority to render judgment on dispositive motions without judicial review or proper delegation; whether una…
24-1194 John Doe v. Second Judicial District Court of Nevada, Washoe County, et al. Nevada Denied Response Waived anonymous-investigation elected-officials first-amendment litigation public-figure speech-preparatory Are speech preparatory investigations expressive and subject to First Amendment protection?
24-1195 In Re Symon Mandawala Denied civil-procedure jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss rule-12(b)(6) service-of-process sua-sponte Whether a district court itself can invoke a motion to dismiss sua sponte under Rule 12(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in a civil case …
24-1197 Tarek Farag v. Joseph R. Biden, former President of the United States, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-review climate-change declaratory-relief injunctive-relief judicial-procedure scientific-evidence Whether the Appellate Court improperly ruled on climate change claims and denied declaratory and injunctive relief
24-1198 Association for Government Accountability, et al. v. Steve Simon, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Minnesota Secretary of State, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived drivers-privacy-act ex-parte-young federal-court injunctive-relief seminole-tribe state-officials Whether the Ex Parte Young exception for prospective injunctive relief applies in federal court actions against state officials in their official capa…
24-1199 Muntaha Tahar v. Creative Corner Early Learning Center, LLC District of Columbia Denied arbitration-award court-of-appeals d-c-code superior-court uncontested-counterclaim unpaid-rent Whether the District of Columbia Superior Court and Court of Appeals violated D.C. Code Section 16-4424 by failing to modify the arbitrator's award an…
24-1205 Maria Elena Swett Urquieta v. John Francis Bowe Second Circuit Denied Response Waived child-abduction hague-convention international-law mature-child-defense parental-consent undue-influence Whether a parent's continued consent to a child's temporary stay abroad resets the date of wrongful retention under the Hague Convention, and whether …
24-1206 Daryao Khatri v. Board of Trustees of the University of the District of Columbia District of Columbia Denied age-discrimination causation-standard civil-rights-act eeoc-complaint personnel-actions supreme-court-interpretation Whether the District of Columbia Court of Appeals erred in not applying the Supreme Court's ruling on age discrimination in personnel actions as outli…
24-1208 Beck Redden L.L.P. v. Mark A. Cantu Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived federal-question-jurisdiction federal-state-balance judicial-foreclosure legal-malpractice preclusive-effect subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a contested federal question in a state law legal malpractice case meets the substantiality threshold for federal question jurisdiction under …
24-1209 Daryll Boyd Jones v. New York, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived attorney-discipline civil-rights due-process equal-protection ex-parte-young judicial-bias Whether the Court of Appeals erred in severance of retrospective damages claims from prospective injunctive claims under Ex parte Young and whether sy…
24-1210 Brent Andrew Brackett Arbogast v. Pfizer Inc., as Successor to Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, et al. First Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure due-process fair-labor-standards-act fifth-amendment rule-41-dismissal Does the Fifth Amendment require appellate courts to rule on a petitioner's briefed arguments and alleged facts rather than unraised theories and fact…
24-1211 Kristen Elizabeth Wagner v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process standard-of-review Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability based on a single judge's assessment violates the established standard for suc…
24-1212 Kenneth Burnham v. Michigan Michigan Denied Response Waived affidavit-of-service constitutional-rights due-process legal-procedure michigan-courts personal-jurisdiction Whether Petitioner's constitutional right to due process was violated when the Michigan Courts relied on a fraudulent Affidavit of Service to establis…
24-1213 In Re Bahig Bishay Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-violations declaratory-relief individual-capacity judicial-immunity official-immunity Whether government employees classified as judicial officers are absolutely immune from prosecution for declaratory relief when sued in individual cap…
24-1215 Miniso Depot CA, Inc., et al. v. Yongtong Liu California Denied Amici (1) arbitration-agreement dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act piecemeal-litigation sexual-harassment statutory-interpretation Should claims within the scope of an arbitration agreement that are unrelated to sexual assault or sexual harassment continue to be arbitrated under t…
24-1217 Kurt Kanam v. Doug Burgum, Secretary of the Interior, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure agency-action federal-indian-law judicial-jurisdiction rule-60 tribal-recognition Whether the Rule 60 motion should be granted due to alleged lack of jurisdiction and agency misconduct in tribal recognition proceedings
24-1219 Dora L. Adkins v. JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. Fourth Circuit Denied civil-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit motion-to-dismiss pro-se-plaintiff Whether the Fourth Circuit properly affirmed the district court's order and whether the district court properly denied Adkins' motions for leave to fi…
24-1221 Susan Neese, et al. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied administrative-law article-iii-standing federal-funding healthcare-discrimination mootness summary-vacatur Should the Court summarily vacate the court of appeals' judgment under United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., and remand with instructions to dismiss the…
24-1222 Courtney Richmond v. Nolan Wiese, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived claim-adjudication copyright-law federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion product-liability tort-claims Whether federal courts may decline to adjudicate federal tort and product liability claims, and whether a federal court may dismiss copyright claims w…
24-1223 Juan Carlos Uriostegui Hernandez, et al. v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General Fifth Circuit Denied None
24-1224 Denver Ward v. Laura Fisher, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied child-best-interests court-appointed due-process guardian-ad-litem quasi-judicial-immunity state-law Does a guardian ad litem violate due process when acting outside the scope of their duties for the child's best interests and in contravention of stat…
24-1226 S. G. S. v. S. F. Illinois Denied Response Waived child-custody due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure parental-rights Whether a state court may completely remove a parent's constitutionally protected right to the care, custody, and control of their child through a hea…
24-1227 Frank L. Slaughter, Jr. v. Board of Professional Responsibility of the Supreme Court of Tennessee Tennessee Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-licensure disciplinary-proceedings due-process ethical-rules fourteenth-amendment supervisory-authority Whether Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 9 violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by conferring plenary power on a single decision-ma…
24-1228 Christopher Everett Stone v. Iryna Hermanova Stone nka Iryna Hermanova Mokhoshchokova Colorado Denied constitutional-amendments divorce-decree involuntary-servitude judicial-jurisdiction marriage-dissolution property-rights Do the First, Fifth, Thirteenth, or Fourteenth Amendments bar a state from failing to issue, unilaterally revoking, or deferring reissue of a divorce …
24-1229 Denise A. Canzoneri v. Prescott Unified School District, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied clearly-established factual-allegations first-amendment light-most-favorable motion-to-dismiss qualified-immunity At the motion to dismiss stage, can a court disregard the 'light most favorable' standard and require the plaintiff to prove her rights were 'clearly …
24-1230 Coinbase, Inc., et al. v. Darren Kramer, et al. California Denied Amici (2)Response Waived arbitration-agreement consumer-protection federal-arbitration-act preemption public-injunctive-relief state-law Whether, or to what extent, the FAA preempts a state-law rule allowing a plaintiff to evade arbitration by pleading a request for 'public injunctive r…
24-1231 Andrew Dowd v. United States Second Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response Waived due-process harmless-error judicial-impartiality prosecutorial-conduct recusal restitution Whether a district judge impermissibly blends judicial and prosecutorial roles by urging investigation and then presiding over the trial, whether an a…
24-1232 Maher Memarzadeh v. Lottie Cohen, et al. California Denied americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure discovery-obligations due-process medical-disability terminating-sanctions Whether a state court's terminating sanctions against a civil litigant based on medical inability to comply with discovery obligations violate due pro…
24-1233 John M. Barr, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-discretion due-process regulatory-standard retroactive-application whistleblower-award Whether an agency can deny a whistleblower award by applying a new regulatory standard retroactively, after the whistleblower's claim has fully mature…
24-1235 Suliang Bu v. Missouri Missouri Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure cross-section-of-community due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial-waiver sixth-amendment Whether the Missouri Court of Appeals erred in holding that a jury trial waiver does not require the record to show the defendant understood all funda…
24-1236 Louis Farrakhan, et al. v. Anti-Defamation League, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-USC-1983 article-III-standing first-amendment government-action quasi-governmental-actor representational-standing Whether the Second Circuit erred in its interpretation of representational standing under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and First Amendment protections against qua…
24-1237 Hans Goerz v. Troy E. Meink, Secretary of the Air Force Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights-act discovery pretext retaliation summary-judgment title-vii Whether the District Judge may dismiss the complaint on summary judgment without requiring answer from the respondent, without authorizing discovery, …
24-1238 Shawn Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, LLC, et al. Seventh Circuit Granted Amici (19)Relisted (2) common-law motor-carrier negligent-selection preemption safety-exception transportation-law Does § 14501(c) preempt a state common-law claim against a broker for negligently selecting a motor carrier or driver?
24-1239 Cara Wessels Wells v. Texas Tech University, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response Waived civil-rights-act discrimination employment-status remuneration time-bar title-vii Does an unpaid position qualify someone to be an 'employee' within the meaning of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e(f)?
24-1240 Unkechaug Indian Nation, et al. v. Amanda Lefton, Commissioner, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, et al. Second Circuit Denied daubert-standard due-process expert-testimony gatekeeping-obligation in-camera-review summary-judgment Whether the District Court violated Petitioners' due process rights by granting summary judgment without fulfilling its Daubert gatekeeping obligation…
24-1241 Adam Kelnhofer v. United States Armed Forces Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof constitutional-inference drug-testing due-process military-law scientific-evidence Whether the inference allowing a trier of fact to find knowing use of a drug based solely on the presence of a metabolite in a defendant's body, even …
24-1243 Tri-Corp Housing, Inc. v. Robert Bauman Wisconsin Denied Response Waived actual-malice defamation jury-trial legal-standard public-figure wisconsin-supreme-court When is a claimant an 'involuntary public figure' within the meaning of Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc., and must the question of whether a party claiming…
24-1245 Masika Brown Ray v. Anthony Boone, Chief, Longview Police Department, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection police-accountability selective-enforcement wrongful-detention Did the Fifth Circuit err in affirming the district court's dismissal where substantial constitutional violations under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amend…
24-1250 Art Bullock, et al. v. R-Ranch Property Owners' Association, et al. California Denied Response Waived appellate-rules constitutional-authority due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review stare-decisis Whether the California Supreme Court's no-stare-decisis rules violate the Fourteenth Amendment by preventing lower court review of rule constitutional…
24-1251 Nicole Gilbert-Daniels v. Lions Gate Entertainment, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived copyright-infringement due-process expert-evidence ninth-circuit substantial-similarity summary-judgment Whether the Ninth Circuit's application of the extrinsic test in copyright infringement conflicts with Supreme Court precedent and improperly granted …
24-1252 Real Property commonly known as: 11475 NW Pike Road, Yamhill, Oregon, Yamhill County and any residence, buildings, or storage facilities thereon, et al. v. Yamhill County, Oregon and forfeiting agency, on behalf of the YCINT seizing agency Oregon Denied civil-forfeiture constitutional-interpretation criminal-punishment double-jeopardy in-rem-proceeding property-rights Whether civil forfeiture of property constitutes criminal punishment under the Double Jeopardy Clause and whether United States v. Ursery remains cons…
24-1254 City of Palestine, Texas, et al. v. Union Pacific Railroad Company Texas Denied constitutional-interpretation iccta-preemption interstate-commerce retroactive-application separation-of-powers state-court-judgment Whether the Texas Supreme Court erred in retroactively applying the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act's preemption provisions to a final …
24-1256 Gary Robinson v. Jerry N. Higgins, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived due-process fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure property-rights tax-lien Whether the state of Kentucky violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by enforcing an illegal tax lien, depriving the petitioner o…
24-1257 Martin Akerman v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived administrative-law automated-enforcement confrontation-rights due-process fifth-amendment procedural-irregularities Whether the use of automated systems like 'Speed Camera Doe' for issuing citations without human oversight violates procedural due process protections…
24-1258 Peter Judson v. Robert I. Friedman Massachusetts Denied 14th-amendment estate-planning fiduciary-duty irrevocable-trust property-rights uniform-principal-and-income-act Whether a Settlor of an irrevocable trust has a 14th Amendment right to set estate terms without fiduciary intervention and whether a national standar…
24-1263 Jeannine Bedard v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. California Denied Response Waived due-process employment-conditions fourteenth-amendment labor-law property-rights vested-rights Did the state courts, including the California Supreme Court, violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by failing to rule on substan…
24-1264 David M. Kirk v. Citigroup Global Markets Holdings, Inc. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-review due-process financial-fraud jurisdictional-challenge punitive-damages venue-transfer Whether the Supreme Court should review a case involving alleged financial fraud with potential punitive damages exceeding $187.2 million and involvin…
24-1265 Glenn E. Diaz v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure cross-examination judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent witness-bias Whether a district court can completely bar defense counsel from cross-examining a key government witness on an issue probative of bias and motive, an…
24-1266 Jump Trading, LLC v. Nick Patterson, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (2) arbitration-agreement circuit-split delegation-clause federal-arbitration-act gateway-arbitrability nonsignatory Where an arbitration agreement contains a provision delegating to the arbitrator gateway questions of arbitrability, must a court leave for the arbitr…
24-1269 Jeremiah Curtis-Shanley v. J.G. Connecticut Denied constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-speech prior-restraint Whether the State of Connecticut violated the petitioner's First and Fourteenth Amendment rights through a no-contact order that allegedly chilled spe…
24-1270 In Re Harold Jean-Baptiste Denied Response Waived civil-rights fbi-liability federal-government human-rights judicial-accountability second-amendment Can the Federal Government and Judicial influence protect the Federal Bureau of Investigations from liability and accountability of Human Rights, Civi…
24-1271 Malik Leigh v. State Bar of Florida Florida Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment professional-conduct racial-discrimination Whether disciplining or disbarring a civil rights attorney for speech critical of judicial bias and racial injustice violates the First Amendment, and…
24-1272 William F. Kaetz v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-violations first-amendment-retaliation judicial-immunity self-representation separation-of-powers sixth-amendment-rights Whether the lower court's actions constitute a violation of First Amendment retaliation, Sixth Amendment right to self-representation, and separation …
24-1273 Jonathan Phillips v. California California Denied due-process equal-protection felony-false-imprisonment fourteenth-amendment nolo-contendere plea-bargaining Does a felony false imprisonment conviction obtained by way of a nolo contendere plea violate due process protections where the defendant was not advi…
24-1274 R. Michael Cestaro v. Clarissa M. Rodriguez, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as Chair of the New York State Workers' Compensation Board, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived first-amendment mt-healthy public-employee retaliation section-1983 subjective-intent Whether a public employee's First Amendment retaliation claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 requires proof of subjective intent and distinct 'other conduct' …
24-1275 Jo-Ann Connelly v. Connecticut, ex rel. Jeremiah Dunn, Chief State Animal Control Officer Connecticut Denied Response Waived community-caretaking exclusionary-rule forfeiture-proceedings government-welfare home-search warrantless-search Whether the exclusionary rule applies to warrantless searches of the home conducted for community caretaking and in forfeiture proceedings where the g…
24-1276 California Association for the Preservation of Gamefowl v. Stanislaus County, California Ninth Circuit Denied constitutional-challenge due-process facial-challenge property-rights regulatory-taking statute-of-limitations Whether a statute of limitations for facial constitutional challenges begins to run solely from the date of enactment, or whether each day of continue…
24-1277 Pamela L. Bickford v. Alaska, et al. Alaska Denied administrative-procedures constitutional-interpretation election-law hava-compliance state-legislature voting-rights Whether the failure of the Alaska Legislature to establish state-based administrative procedures violates the Constitution and the Help America Vote A…
24-1278 Kevin Scott Bjornson v. Equifax Information Services, LLC Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights counsel-disqualification due-process equal-protection ninth-circuit-interpretation statute-of-limitations Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals correctly interpreted laws regarding counsel disqualification, statute of limitations, and constitutional r…
24-1282 Robert Menzer v. U.S. Bank, N.A., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-statute full-faith-and-credit ninth-circuit void-judgment Does the full faith and credit clause and 28 U.S.C. § 1738 require an independent court analysis of a void judgment where due process rights are alleg…
24-1283 Jack R. T. Jordan v. United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived attorney-conduct disbarment due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment judicial-misconduct Whether the U.S. Constitution delegated power to federal courts to disbar an attorney for statements in court filings challenging judicial misconduct
24-1284 Eugene Dingle v. Leslie Armstrong, Individually and as Guardian ad Litem of Dorchester County Family Court, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-review rooker-feldman state-court Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars federal courts from reviewing state family court decisions where the petitioner alleges egregious violations …
24-1285 Dongxiao Yue v. Wenbin Yang California Denied civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias pro-se-litigant Whether a trial judge's prejudgment, bias, and usurpation of the adversarial role in a civil trial constitutes a violation of due process and equal pr…
24-1286 Jeffrey Buford v. Georgia Georgia Denied Response Waived constitutional-authority due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure original-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the U.S. Supreme Court has original jurisdiction when a state is a party to the case and a citizen of another state is involved
24-1289 Nissan North America, Inc. v. Sherida Johnson, on Behalf of Herself and All Others Similarly Situated, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing circuit-split class-action federal-court injury-in-fact rule-23 Whether a federal court may certify a Rule 23(b)(3) class when almost no one in the class has suffered an Article III injury, and whether a federal co…
24-1290 Katie Sczesny, et al. v. Philip Murphy, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Governor of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge declaratory-judgment employment-termination executive-fiat public-health voluntary-cessation Does the voluntary cessation doctrine require a defendant to provide affirmative assurance that the challenged conduct will not recur, particularly wh…
24-1291 Ariel Dalton v. Edgewood Police Department, et al. Indiana Denied case-dismissal due-process judicial-procedure plaintiff-rights pretrial-compliance trial-court-discretion Does a trial court violate a plaintiff's due process rights by dismissing a case for inactivity when a trial date has already been set and the plainti…
24-1292 Victor Nicolas Rodriguez v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General Second Circuit Denied Response Waived None
24-1297 Royal Merchant Holdings, LLC v. The Ferraro Law Firm, P.A., et al. Florida Denied Response Waived arbitration due-process federal-arbitration-act judicial-proceedings pleading-standard procedural-rules Whether a claim in arbitration must be asserted in a pleading at the outset of the case and whether the standard for procedural due process in arbitra…
24-1298 Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. District of Columbia Denied booz-allen-hamilton civil-rights discrimination fbi-collusion federal-government judicial-interference Can the Federal Government Judicial influence and the Courts interference to disregard all the rules of the Courts to protect a corporation from liabi…
24-1300 Andrew John Blount v. Joan Michelle Blount Texas Denied community-property due-process evidentiary-burden fourteenth-amendment property-rights sua-sponte Whether a state appellate court violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause by sua sponte imposing an unargued, heightened evidentiary burd…
24-1301 Calvin Allen, Sr., et al. v. Seth Gomez, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived dismissal-judgment public-accommodation race-discrimination section-1981 section-1983 section-1985 Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in affirming dismissal judgments for multiple respondents when the amended complaint allegedly pleads direct and circ…
24-1303 Zakiya Jendayi v. Della Hamlin, et al. California Denied article-iii-standing constitutional-uniformity due-process judicial-integrity probate-law trust-invalidation Whether a California probate court may invalidate a valid, lawfidly executed trust based on the contested claims of disinherited parties with no stand…
24-1308 Jaffan International, LLC v. Radhe Krishna Properties, LLC Florida Denied Response Waived appellate-review federal-law final-judgment res-judicata state-law substantive-law Whether state law can supersede federal substantive law of res judicata in determining the binding effect of a federal final judgment in state court
24-1311 Kevin T. Lavery v. Pursuant Health, Inc. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split contract-interpretation patent-law patent-misuse royalty-agreement stare-decisis Whether the Court should overrule Brulotte and Kimble or at least clarify that an agreement containing a post-expiration royalty is not per se patent …
24-1312 James J. Decoulos v. Board of Registration of Hazardous Waste Site Cleanup Professionals, et al. Massachusetts Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-deference due-process fourteenth-amendment professional-disciplinary-proceeding statutory-interpretation Whether a state court violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it defers to a state agency's interpretation of statutes and re…
24-1313 Jeremy N. Miller v. Casi A. Miller, et al. Tennessee Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure attorney-general-notice federal-preemption state-jurisdiction va-authority veterans-benefits Whether a state court can preclude a litigant from arguing federal law preemption on appeal due to failure to notify the state attorney general during…
24-1314 Sberbank of Russia PJSC v. Thomas Schansman, Individually and as Surviving Parent of Quinn Lucas Schansman and as the Legal Guardian on Behalf of X.S., a Minor, et al. Second Circuit Denied anti-terrorism-act commercial-activity-exception correspondent-accounts foreign-sovereign-immunities-act sovereign-immunity terrorist-attack Do the general exceptions to foreign state immunity under Section 1604 of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act pierce the separate immunity provision …
24-1316 Wendy Downs v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas-corpus procedural-grounds statute-of-limitations Whether the Ninth Circuit applied an overly stringent standard in assessing the district court's disposition of a habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 22…
24-1317 Brian D. Swanson v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived employer-liability income-tax internal-revenue-service perjury tax-code tax-determination Does the Tax Code authorize the employer to determine the employee's income tax liability without consent and may the Commissioner of Internal Revenue…
24-1319 Sriyantha Benedict Sirimanne, et ux. v. Miguel Garcia California Denied Response Waived admissible-evidence due-process factfinding judicial-review parol-evidence-rule statute-of-frauds Whether a judgment based on inadmissible evidence violates due process
24-1320 Centerline Logistics Corporation, et al. v. Inlandboatmen’s Union of the Pacific, et al. California Denied Response Waived actual-malice anti-SLAPP defamation due-process first-amendment jury-trial Whether the Supreme Court should overturn the actual malice standard from New York Times v. Sullivan and whether anti-SLAPP statutes violate the Seven…
24-1321 Saul Lassoff, et al. v. MGM Resorts International Third Circuit Denied civil-procedure district-court first-to-file forum-shopping preclusion-order venue-transfer Whether the New Jersey District Court or Third Circuit Appellate Court erred in denying First to File Petitioners a Preclusion Order and preventing th…
24-1323 Peter Kleidman v. Audrey B. Collins, Associate Justice, Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied appellate-procedure briefing-rules court-of-appeals legal-theory procedural-fairness supervisory-power Whether the Supreme Court will use its supervisory power to require Courts of Appeals to provide parties an opportunity to be heard on new authorities…
24-1324 SAP SE, et al. v. Teradata Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) antitrust-law per-se-rule rule-of-reason sherman-act software-products tying-arrangement Whether the rule of reason properly governs tying claims under Section 1 of the Sherman Act for technologically integrated software products
24-1325 Go New York Tours Inc. v. Gray Line New York Tours, Inc., et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived factual-inference judicial-interpretation plausibility-standard pleading-requirements summary-adjudication twombly-iqbal Should this Court reconsider or clarify the pleading standards of Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly and Ashcroft v. Iqbal because lower courts nationwide hav…
24-1326 IQ Data International, Inc. v. Ryan Six Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing cognizable-injury fair-debt-collection-practices-act injury-in-fact intrusion-upon-seclusion legal-standing Whether the receipt of a written letter constitutes an intrusion upon seclusion such that the recipient has suffered a cognizable injury in fact suffi…
24-291 Apache Stronghold v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (15)Relisted (18) free-exercise-clause government-action native-american-rights religious-exercise religious-freedom-restoration-act sacred-site Whether the government 'substantially burdens' religious exercise under RFRA, or must satisfy heightened scrutiny under the Free Exercise Clause, when…
24-5398 William Michael Talley v. Texas Texas Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus judicial-review Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals erred in denying habeas corpus relief where potentially exculpatory evidence was withheld and the petitioner's c…
24-5450 Anthony H. Warnick v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution mcgirt-decision state-law tribal-jurisdiction tribal-lands Whether Oklahoma can prosecute a defendant under state law for crimes committed on tribal lands after the McGirt decision expanded tribal jurisdiction
24-6687 Jason Jayavarman v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP child-pornography criminal-procedure duplicitous-indictment ineffective-counsel plea-offer rule-8a Is an indictment duplicitous when it charges multiple offenses in a single count and does Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 8(a) prohibit such chargi…
24-6723 Carol Lynne Morgan v. Leby Sassya Ohio Denied Relisted (2)IFP amendment-violations constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct legal-remedy state-court-procedure Whether the United States Supreme Court should provide national safeguards against lower State Court systemic failures to comply with fundamental Cons…
24-6733 Delester Scott v. Steven Maisos Texas Denied Relisted (2)IFP None Question not identified.
24-6798 Karl Douglas Roberts v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit Denied Amici (2)IFP aedpa-standard atkins-claim death-penalty federal-claim habeas-corpus state-court-adjudication Whether a claim has been adjudicated on the merits by a state court under § 2254(d), where the defendant did not present a federal claim for relief an…
24-6836 Christian Genao v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing supervised-release Must sentencing courts orally pronounce nonmandatory conditions of supervised release to protect defendants' right to be present and to put them on no…
24-6839 Ralph W. Baker, Jr. v. Ta-Nehisi P. Coates, et al. Second Circuit Pending Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP copyright-law expression-of-ideas intellectual-property judicial-interpretation literary-rights originality Whether the court of appeals correctly interpreted copyright protection for an author's arrangement of words
24-6841 Micah Brown v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Dismissed IFP capital-punishment defendant-rights fifth-amendment jury-instructions penalty-phase prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a prosecutor violates a capital defendant's Fifth Amendment right by repeatedly telling the jury that the defendant deserved no mercy for not …
24-6885 Thomas Creech v. Idaho Idaho Denied IFP constitutional-law death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards execution-attempts Should Resweber be overruled?
24-6898 Avery Jamal Edwards v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied IFP controlled-substance criminal-law federal-law sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether an offense must have involved a substance that was controlled under federal law to be considered a 'controlled substance offense' as that term…
24-6901 Junior-Tony Dieujuste v. Jessica Sin, Judge, Family Court of New York, Queens County, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-action child-support court-proceedings judicial-immunity servicemark trademark-law Whether judicial immunity extends to administrative actions taken by court officials in child support proceedings involving unauthorized use of a regi…
24-6904 Ganiyu Ayinla Jaiyeola v. Garmin International, Inc. Tenth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP due-process financial-conflict judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics pro-se-plaintiff rule-60-motion Whether the District Court in Kansas denied pro se Plaintiff due process by declining to file a Rule 60(b)(6) motion to vacate orders issued by Distri…
24-6921 Benjamin Kohn v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP dismissal-with-prejudice federal-procedure jurisdictional-challenge rule-12b1 sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether sovereign immunity implicates subject-matter jurisdiction such that it may be resolved through factual challenges under Federal Rule of Civil …
24-6936 Deveon Jamear Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-statute federal-law firearm-possession second-amendment Whether the Charge of Unlawful User of or Addicted to Any Controlled Substance in Possession of a Firearm in Violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3) is Fac…
24-6942 John Sexton v. Florida Florida Denied IFP capital-punishment court-witness harmless-error mitigation-specialist sixth-amendment structural-error Did the state trial court commit structural error by violating the Defendant's Sixth Amendment-secured right to autonomy in his capital penalty procee…
24-6983 Markanthony Deleon Sapalasan v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied IFP detention fourth-amendment inventory-search law-enforcement property-retention search-and-seizure Does it violate the Fourth Amendment to retain personal property of a person who is not going to be incarcerated and to search the property long after…
24-699 Exxon Mobil Corporation v. Corporación Cimex, S.A. (Cuba), et al. District of Columbia Granted CVSGAmici (13)Relisted (2) cuban-property-confiscation foreign-sovereign-immunity helms-burton-act international-law property-rights sovereign-immunity-exception Whether the Helms-Burton Act abrogates foreign sovereign immunity in cases against Cuban instrumentalities, or whether parties proceeding under that A…
24-6996 Deonta Damon Wheeler v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP bruen-standard constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St…
24-7004 Gerald Nelson v. New York City Transit Authority, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP duty-of-fair-representation federal-jurisdiction immunity labor-management political-subdivision wrongful-discharge Whether a political subdivision has immunity under 301 labor management (duty of fair representation) and whether such immunity can be waived when fed…
24-7010 Kenneth Hartley v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims eleventh-circuit federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review Whether the Eleventh Circuit's blanket denial of a certificate of appealability complies with Supreme Court standards for COA review and whether the d…
24-7014 Scott Anthony Williams v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-courts remand sentencing-guidelines Whether a federal court of appeals may apply the exclusionary rule exception in the first instance on appeal and whether a federal court of appeals sh…
24-7033 Aqudre Quailes v. United States Third Circuit Denied IFP as-applied-challenge bruen-framework constitutional-interpretation firearm-regulation historical-analogues second-amendment Can a court avoid addressing under Bruen an as-applied challenge to Section 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban and corresponding punishment by looking, instead,…
24-7038 Cedric Allen Ricks v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-7051 Gmerrio Underwood v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP bruen-standard constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St…
24-7054 Oscar J. Martinez-Hernandez v. United States First Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split confrontation-clause due-process federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay-evidence sixth-amendment Whether uncorroborated hearsay under Federal Rule of Evidence 801(d)(2)(E) without independent proof of conspiracy violates the Sixth Amendment's Conf…
24-7094 Shonteria Story v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP None Question not identified.
24-7098 Dorota Peterson v. Staples the Office Superstore, LLC Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights employment-discrimination section-1981 statutory-interpretation title-vii workplace-rights Whether Title VII and Section 1981 prohibit discrimination across all employment terms, conditions, and privileges, or are limited to significant disc…
24-7101 Joshua Freeman v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-7104 Ray Benjamin Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-7106 Feifei Gu v. Leticia James, Attorney General of New York, et al. New York Denied IFP attorney-general conspiracy criminal-prosecution judicial-misconduct legal-duty malfeasance Has Letitia James neglected her duty by refusing to intervene in a criminal prosecution and conspiring with the Kings County district attorney?
24-7108 Thomas George Craaybeek v. Texas Texas Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-7118 Enrique Diaz v. Ricky Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Florida Denied IFP amendment-violation constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review plea-agreement Whether the Third District's decision disallowing Diaz's use of habeas corpus violates his constitutional right to court access and challenges an alle…
24-7119 Mark Anthony Hill v. Jennifer Pell, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied IFP 42-usc-1985 civil-rights-conspiracy discriminatory-animus fundamental-rights-guarantee material-evidence-concealment state-court-proceeding Whether the factual allegations demonstrate that defendants' conduct of concealing material eyewitness evidence is a hindrance to establishing a compl…
24-7120 Selene Violet Henderson, fka Bryan Paul Hernandez v. Washington Washington Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-7121 Orlando Samuel Diaz-Rivera v. Florida Florida Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-7124 Gary Daniel Rodgers v. Jeff Landry, Governor of Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-court-procedure constitutional-challenge frivolous-appeal in-forma-pauperis legal-briefing Whether the Circuit Court erred in their rulings regarding Rodger's legal filings, procedural challenges, and motion to proceed in forma pauperis
24-7126 David C. Lettieri v. United States District Court for the Northern District of New York Second Circuit Dismissed IFP access-to-courts complaint-filing constitutional-provisions court-power government-redress judicial-discretion Does a court have the power to prevent filing complaints to redress the government?
24-7130 Ken Smith v. Kathy Hochul, Governor of New York, et al. Second Circuit Denied IFP circuit-precedent constitutional-standing judicial-review pre-challenge ripeness statutory-challenge Whether the Second Circuit's decisions conflict with prior circuit precedent concerning the ripeness of a pre-challenge to a statute, whether the Peti…
24-7131 Kevin Michael Cardwell v. Paul David Bojrab, M.D., et al. Indiana Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-USC-1985 attorney-appointment cognitive-impairment conspiracy constitutional-violation sex-offender-rights Whether individuals convicted of sex offenses constitute a protected class under U.S.C. 1985(3) when their constitutional rights are allegedly violate…
24-7133 Isaac Green v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
24-7136 DeWayne Lee Waldrup v. Texas Texas Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel self-representation trial-procedure Whether Texas trial courts improperly denied petitioner's right to self-representation and effective counsel by dismissing court-appointed counsel wit…
24-7138 Steve Van Horne v. Harriett L. Haag, Judge, County Court at Law No. 2, Taylor County, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP district-court first-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-error motion-to-reconsider religious-freedom Whether the district court erred in ignoring the 1st Amendment and 42 USC 21b § 2000bb in denying Petitioner's Notification of Religious Obligation
24-7139 David Little v. Georgia Georgia Denied IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process hearsay sixth-amendment Whether the Indiana Court violated the Sixth Amendment right to Confrontation by admitting deceased witness's hearsay statements without affording pet…
24-7140 David C. Lettieri v. Lawrence Joseph Vilardo Second Circuit Dismissed IFP court-access habeas-corpus judicial-procedure mail-delivery procedural-relief title-28 What relief is possible for mail that isn't properly delivered?
24-7144 Lamar Haymes v. Jack Stollsteimer, District Attorney of Delaware County, Pennsylvania Third Circuit Denied IFP cause-requirement habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-rule post-conviction-relief procedural-default Does the narrow 'cause' requirement announced by this Court in Martinez v. Ryan preclude prisoners from establishing 'cause' for purposes of excusing …
24-7151 Zane Michael Floyd v. Jeremy Bean, Warden, et al. Nevada Denied IFP atkins-ruling capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability medical-consensus Whether a state may constitutionally execute a defendant who meets the strict medical standard for severe brain damage caused by fetal alcohol exposur…
24-7152 Terrance Barrett v. Alaska Commission for Human Rights Alaska Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-7154 Michele Kimberly Harris, et vir v. Springfield Housing Authority, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law billing-dispute civil-rights fair-housing-act forma-pauperis judicial-procedure Whether Judge Beth Phillips correctly ruled on a forma pauperis application and applied appropriate case law in a civil rights dispute involving city …
24-7156 Michael S. Main v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP defendant-rights ineffective-assistance judicial-recusal post-conviction preliminary-hearing procedural-due-process Whether a judge should have recused himself in a post-conviction petition, and whether a defendant has the right to an effective preliminary inquiry w…
24-7159 In Re Dontray L. Brown Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-7163 Jose Nieves Briones v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim due-diligence habeas-corpus supreme-court-jurisdiction time-bar Whether the Supreme Court has jurisdiction to review the denial of a certificate of appealability and whether the Court of Appeals should have issued …
24-7165 John Laurence Berman v. Richard Jordan, Senior Judge, Circuit Court of Maryland, Montgomery County, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP briefing-procedure court-rules fourth-circuit judicial-process legal-fraud procedural-integrity Is the Fourth Circuit's published 'informal briefing' sheet a fraud that should be disregarded
24-7170 In Re Jerome Curry Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review Question not identified.
24-7171 Mai-Trang Thi Nguyen v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
24-7172 Erick Alfredo Peralta v. Texas Texas Denied IFP capital-murder criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment life-without-parole proportionality texas-penal-code Does the Eighth Amendment prohibit disproportionate sentences, specifically Life Without Parole for capital murder under Texas law when intent is remo…
24-7173 Terrell Perkins v. Gregory Hancock, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied IFP child-witness confrontation-rights constitutional-procedure courtroom-testimony defendant-presence emotional-distress Whether a defendant's confrontation rights under Craig are violated when a court permits a minor child witness to testify outside the defendant's pres…
24-7177 Bryant D. Taylor v. New Jersey New Jersey Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-7179 Jordash Tanksley v. Deshawn Jones, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law witness-testimony Question not identified.
24-7180 Yolanda M. Williams v. Austin Police Department Fifth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights district-court federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-misconduct legal-standing Did the Judges and Officers of the U.S. District Court Western District of Texas deprive petitioner of her constitutional rights and fail to abide by …
24-7184 Tricia Liu v. Louie Angel David Feria California Denied IFP civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment police-misconduct restraining-order warrantless-entry Whether the warrantless entry by El Monte Police Department officers into Petitioner's property violated the Fourth Amendment, and whether the restrai…
24-7185 Wayne Johnson v. First District Appellate Project, et al. California Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-fiduciary-duty confidential-communications criminal-defendant fourteenth-amendment public-defender sixth-amendment Whether an attorney appointed at public expense has a fiduciary duty to a criminal defendant to not disclose confidential communications in an environ…
24-7186 Albertico C. Cruz v. Texas Texas Denied IFP anders-brief appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance pro-se-response Did the Eleventh Court of Appeals deny Petitioner's due process by ordering a pro se response under Anders when the appeal was not an Anders proceedin…
24-7188 Xzavier Justin Lee Clark v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-law firearm-possession marijuana-users second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether a statute criminalizing firearm possession by marijuana users violates the Second Amendment
24-7195 Jacob Bellinsky v. Colorado Colorado Denied IFP constitutional-liberties due-process habeas-corpus parent-child-relationships rule-60b void-judgments Whether courts must independently scrutinize claims of void civil protection orders due to fraud and religious discrimination under Loper Bright Enter…
24-7196 Jacob Bellinsky v. Rachel Zinna Galan Colorado Denied IFP constitutional-violations due-process habeas-corpus rule-60b suspension-clause void-judgments Whether the Suspension Clause, 28 U.S.C. § 2248, and Rule 8(d) require courts to accept habeas allegations when respondents fail to traverse or deny, …
24-7198 Donna Ellar v. Jessie Thomas, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-7199 Alcenios Martinez, aka Aucensio Lopez v. Texas Texas Denied IFP constitutional-right counsel-appointment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-review trial-procedure Is a defendant constitutionally entitled to the appointment of counsel for the initial review of an ineffective assistance of trial counsel claim in a…
24-7200 Theresa Batson v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation nunc-pro-tunc statute-of-limitations Whether a state court's entry of an amended judgment nunc pro tunc prevents that judgment from restarting the federal statute of limitations period fo…
24-7201 Johnnie Lee Brown, III v. Michigan Michigan Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-7202 Iris L. Anderson v. City of Jasper, Florida, et al. Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-murder-act constitutional-rights due-process florida-supreme-court state-action statutory-interpretation Whether the Florida Supreme Court's interpretation of the Anti-Murder Act of 1815 violates constitutional protections against unlawful state action an…
24-7204 Sandra Leigh Tomey v. Bill Howard Property Management, LLC Virginia Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment standing unlawful-detainer Whether the courts violated standing requirements by allowing a fictitious named person to pursue an unlawful detainer action
24-7209 Gerardo Castelo Anaya v. Jessica Vigil-Richards, Warden New Mexico Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-7210 Logan Bradley Lake v. Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-7211 Jeffrey Spivack v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals federal-rules-criminal-procedure motion-to-dismiss notice-of-appeal May a Court of Appeals disregard the scope of an appeal when the appellant has clearly articulated the scope and nature of the appeal by identifying t…
24-7214 Anthony J. Woods v. N'Gai Smith Fifth Circuit Denied IFP article-iii-standing civil-rights due-process hostile-work-environment subject-matter-jurisdiction summary-judgment Whether Anthony J. Woods had Article III Standing to petition the court to redress his grievances under the U.S. Constitution 1S* Amendment?
24-7216 Dessie Andrews v. Alma Adams, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP article-i-powers constitutional-violations ninth-amendment sovereign-rights standing-doctrine tenth-amendment Do the People have an unalienable right to sue Congress for systemic constitutional violations without a particularized injury when such actions excee…
24-7227 Lonnie Loren Kocontes v. California California Denied IFP civil-asset-forfeiture claim-preclusion due-process federal-judgment issue-preclusion state-criminal-prosecution Does the Due Process Clause require a state to apply issue and/or claim preclusion to a federal judgment in a state criminal prosecution, and under wh…
24-7233 Joseph Anthony Daniels v. Vincent Gore, Medical Doctor Fourth Circuit Dismissed IFP civil-procedure coronavirus-claim medical-examination medical-records prostate-cancer summary-judgment Whether the appeals court should have ordered a physical examination of the plaintiff to substantiate his prostate cancer claim and whether the court …
24-7235 Timmy Orlando Collier v. Michigan Michigan Denied IFP due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment jurisdictional-defect Did the district court commit a jurisdictional defect by not following Michigan's law and standards, and did the court of appeals and magistrate judge…
24-7238 William Douglas Cope v. Kentucky Kentucky Denied IFP abortion-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection reproductive-rights state-legislation Whether state laws criminalizing certain abortion-related acts violate constitutional protections of equal protection and due process rights
24-7244 Samuel York v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP commerce-clause criminal-statute felony-possession firearm-possession jurisdictional-burden second-amendment Is 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) facially unconstitutional under the Second Amendment and does it violate the Commerce Clause when the government's only juris…
24-7246 Tamika Seay v. Lisa James, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-procedure procedural-fairness Whether procedures by the United States Government satisfy Due Process under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment before depriving Petitioner of life, l…
24-7247 Tamika Seay v. Department of Justice, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plain-error probable-cause substantive-rights Whether the United States Government violated Petitioner's Substantive Rights under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment, and …
24-7248 Tamika Seay v. Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-procedure procedural-fairness Whether procedures by the United States Government satisfy Due Process under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment before depriving Petitioner of life, l…
24-7250 Dale C. Tranbarger v. Anderson Police Department Seventh Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-7257 Alejandro R. Duarte v. Nebraska Nebraska Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance medical-evidence self-defense waiver Whether defense counsel's failure to offer medical evidence supporting a self-defense claim constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel, and whether…
24-7262 Richard Roland Laird v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP aedpa circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus merits-decision strickland-claim When a state court issues a reasoned merits decision on only one component of a multi-component claim, does AEDPA require federal habeas courts to def…
24-7263 Yhanka Veras v. New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP ada civil-rights disabilities-act motion-practice rule-12b6 twiqbal Whether the American With Disabilities Act (ADA) affords a litigant an accommodated plausibility standard under Twiqbal for Rule 12.b.6 motion practic…
24-7264 Michael Lee Sharpe v. Texas Texas Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation felony-conviction firearms-possession individual-rights right-to-bear-arms second-amendment Whether the Second Amendment guarantees an individual who has been convicted of a felony offense the unencumbered right to possess firearms
24-7269 Jacob John Weld v. Melinda K. Braman, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-7270 In Re Michael Jarrow Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-7276 Christina Heffner v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
24-7279 Carlos Hernandez, aka Ra Saadi Lennox Hernandez El v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection federal-government race-discrimination Whether a race-based constitutional challenge can be brought against a federal government action and whether the petitioner's constitutional rights ar…
24-7280 Tristan Michael Hyde v. Florida Department of Legal Affairs Florida Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-7282 Imre Kifor v. Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit Denied IFP child-separation constitutional-rights due-process federal-reimbursement lgbtq-rights state-law Whether Massachusetts can constitutionally 'double protect' some citizens by revoking Constitutional protections for others, and whether LGBTQ+ immuni…
24-7283 James Rubio v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-default Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly denied a Certificate of Appealability (COA) by misapplying procedural default rules and violating due process in …
24-7286 Christopher Glen Mason v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment and whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for firearm possession that has cross…
24-7287 Anthony Michael Branch v. Aidan T. Kearney, et al. Massachusetts Denied IFP actual-malice defamation media-publications public-figure summary-judgment Whether a private individual who becomes the subject of defamatory online publications may be designated a 'limited-purpose public figure' based solel…
24-7288 Quaid Akeem Cornell v. Roberto A. Arias, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP fourth-amendment group-detention ineffective-assistance investigative-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure May police officers detain and search all members of a group on grounds that the behavior of one person was suspicious, and is trial counsel constitut…
24-7292 Germaine Ramsey v. United States Second Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review certiorari grant-vacate-remand judicial-discretion supreme-court-procedure thompson-case Whether the Court should grant, vacate, and remand (GVR) in light of Thompson v. United States
24-7293 Alexander Soto v. Massachusetts Massachusetts Denied Response WaivedIFP arizona-v-gant criminal-procedure drug-trafficking fourth-amendment search-incident-to-arrest warrant-requirement Whether the search-incident-to-arrest exception from Arizona v. Gant applies to searches of containers in buildings or only in automobiles
24-7294 Rustin Randall Middleton v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied IFP criminal-appeal evidence-challenge legal-sufficiency louisiana-supreme-court sentence-review writ-application Whether the Louisiana Supreme Court erred in denying petitioner's writ application challenging the sufficiency of evidence and excessiveness of senten…
24-7299 Jerry L. Hoffman, Jr. v. Jose Delgado, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech municipal-ordinance prior-restraint public-forum Whether a city ordinance prohibiting video recording in public areas within City-owned properties constitutes a prior restraint on free speech and vio…
24-7306 William Thomas Hill v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP counsel-failure district-court evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance motion-to-suppress supreme-court-precedent Whether the district court abused its discretion by summarily denying ineffective assistance of counsel claims without conducting an evidentiary heari…
24-7308 Zachary C. Crouch v. Braden Goddard, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation copyright-infringement due-process federal-law sovereign-immunity state-law Whether state sovereign immunity applies to federal copyright infringement and fraud claims under the Constitution
24-7309 Brandi Abts v. Cynthia Arnold-Abts Nevada Denied IFP due-process evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness judicial-misconduct structural-error Whether a District Court Judge committed structural error by abandoning judicial neutrality and violating fundamental fairness during an evidentiary h…
24-7310 Ian Leonard Clark v. United States District Court for the District of Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-challenge federal-constitution judicial-interpretation state-law statutory-interpretation Does the Supreme Court agree with the Appellant's claim that Oregon Revised Statute 14.270 is unconstitutional?
24-7311 Percy L. Harris v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure conviction-review judicial-oversight mississippi-supreme-court pro-se record-omission Did the appellant receive a proper review from the Mississippi Supreme Court after his conviction was affirmed due to documents that were a part of th…
24-7312 Leavon Z. Reeves v. Oluchi Akunne Maryland Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment adoption-fraud child-custody due-process social-worker-misconduct witness-testimony Whether the district court erred in dismissing the case involving alleged adoption fraud and fraudulent testimony by a social worker that prevented th…
24-7313 Dallas Cody Hilt v. Chad Anderson, Sheriff, Bates County, Missouri Eighth Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-7317 Laurack D. Bray v. Matthew Scott Kenefick, Individually and as Partner in Jeffers Mangels, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP court-of-appeals judicial-bias legal-procedure race-discrimination section-1981 summary-reversal Is it reversible error for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to treat opposing parties differently based on race, and are false statements by a feder…
24-7319 James Hasten Franklin v. Oklahoma Tenth Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-7322 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. A. Rodriguez Florida Dismissed IFP color-of-law fourth-amendment injunction procedural-due-process rights-deprivation trial-court-error Did the trial court commit reversible error in dismissing the petition for an injunction to prevent stalking? Did the court violate procedural due pro…
24-7324 Flavio Charles Patino v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
24-7326 Desmond Alan Mackay v. Shawn Wead, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
24-7329 Nicco-Kawon Pledger v. Massachusetts Massachusetts Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process expert-testimony hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance jury-instructions trial-procedure Whether counsel's failure to challenge the admissibility of expert testimony and hearsay evidence prejudicially impacted the defendant's right to a fa…
24-7333 Daniel Del Brumit v. David Rogers, Warden Tenth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights federal-habeas indian-law post-conviction-review state-retroactivity treaty-interpretation Whether Congress can render the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek Art. 4 void through state post-conviction proceedings and AEDPA review
24-7336 Blondell F. Mitchell v. Raytown Water, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process eeoc-discrimination employment-discrimination equal-protection media-harassment Whether the EEOC and various defendants violated Mitchell's constitutional rights through discriminatory actions, media harassment, and procedural mis…
24-7337 Michael Ross v. Bluefield Area Transit, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
24-7338 Justin Panus v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP aedpa-review certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus procedural-default state-court-findings substantive-claims Whether Petitioner was entitled to a Certificate of Appealability on multiple procedural and substantive grounds related to state court findings and A…
24-7339 Jonathan Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment Whether the government may deprive citizens of their Second Amendment rights based on a non-violent prior conviction and whether such prosecution viol…
24-7341 Pedrito Santiago Moreta v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
24-7342 Jose Gomez Quiroz v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-indictment federal-firearms-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(n), which prohibits individuals under indictment for a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year from receiv…
24-7343 Christopher Harris v. Officer Lesko, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-contract kokkonen-rule Where an officer of the court violates the 'Kokkonen rule' by 'enforcing' an on-the-record promise only, who has unambiguously invoked the Fourteenth …
24-7344 Sheterria Lanelle Jackson v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance motion-to-suppress sixth-amendment trial-court Did the trial court err when it denied petitioner's claim that counsel was ineffective for failing to challenge evidence and for failing to file a mot…
24-7347 Joshua Caleb Johnson v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment and whether Congress may criminalize intrastate firearm possession based solely on th…
24-7348 Spencer Wayne Bacon v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause conviction-restriction criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) prohibiting firearm possession by persons with prior convictions violates the Second Amendment and the Commerce Clause
24-7350 Rusty James Driscoll v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights discovery-material fifth-amendment inmate-rights local-rules sixth-amendment Whether District Court of South Dakota's Local Rules 16.1 and 57.10 violate an inmate's constitutional rights under the 5th and 6th Amendments to rece…
24-7353 Jose Trinidad Martinez Santoyo v. Lasha Boyden, former United States Marshal for the Eastern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure extradition international-law sixth-amendment speedy-trial treaty-interpretation Whether the Sixth Amendment Speedy Trial Clause constitutes a law that can bar extradition under the United States-Mexico Extradition Treaty due to la…
24-7355 Curtis Dewayne Miller v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bashara-factors circuit-split counsel-pressure guilty-plea judicial-discretion pre-sentencing-motion Should a district court grant a pre-sentencing motion to withdraw a guilty plea if that plea was made after an initial trial that ended with a hung ju…
24-7356 Kurtavius Jermon Smith v. Randy Evans, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-7357 Christopher Scott Jones v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit obstruction-enhancement plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in accepting a plea agreement where the defendant was not adequately informed of material provisions, and whether the…
24-7358 Harry Lee Goldsboro, II v. Florida Florida Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-7359 Gina G. v. Washoe County Human Services Agency, et al. Nevada Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
24-7360 Daniel David Strader v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence sentencing Whether a court violates the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments by using a petitioner's silence at sentencing as the sole definitive factor to deny relie…
24-7361 Deshaun Curtis Jones v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court judicial-review motion-to-suppress third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's denial of Appellant's Motion to Suppress
24-7362 Christine Louise Kensinger v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP black-mold due-process environmental-toxins housing-authority medical-evidence warranty-of-habitability Whether sufficient evidence exists to establish a causal link between black mold exposure and plaintiff's health issues, and whether landlords violate…
24-7364 Philip Emiabata, et ux. v. Bank of New York Trust Company, et al. Second Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process judicial-foreclosure pre-service-dismissal section-1915 Whether judicial foreclosure under Texas law and pre-service dismissal of a complaint violate constitutional due process protections
24-7369 Shawn K. Bever v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-test constitutional-rights firearms-regulation law-abiding-citizen second-amendment self-defense Whether the individual right to bear arms for self-defense guaranteed by the Second Amendment applies only to 'law-abiding citizens' who have no prior…
24-7371 Abraka Vanessa Okposio v. Barry University, Inc., et al., a Florida Corporation Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure collateral-order default-judgment fraud-upon-court judicial-review Is a District Court's Collateral Order denying a Motion for Default Final Judgment Due to Opposing Counsel's Fraud Upon the Court immediately appealab…
24-7373 Natnael Zemene v. Massachusetts Massachusetts Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment second-amendment Whether the Fifth Amendment's double jeopardy clause protects an individual from subsequent prosecution when insufficient evidence was produced to reb…
24-7375 Victor Rogers v. New York Central Mutual Fire Insurance Company New York Denied IFP breach-of-contract contract-enforcement court-review legal-claim unpaid-installments writ-of-certiorari Why have the courts not upheld my valid breach of contract claim against NYCM with unpaid installments of $54,221 as outlined in this Writ of Certiora…
24-7376 Yu Hin Chan v. Honorable Joy F. Campanelli, et al. Second Circuit Denied IFP court-documents due-process ex-parte-communication immunity legal-ethics official-act Whether Joy F. Campanelli's forging of court documents and ex parte communications constitute official acts and violate due process rights
24-7377 Jay J. Lin v. Hudson City Savings Bank, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-review district-court judicial-procedure legal-error supremacy-clause Whether the Third Circuit erred in failing to review a potential violation of the Supremacy Clause by the District Court of New Jersey
24-7378 Margarita Leanos v. Allen Dills, Warden Georgia Denied IFP appellate-counsel constitutional-challenge discriminatory-evidence gang-membership ineffective-assistance witness-testimony Whether appellate counsel provided ineffective assistance by failing to challenge the admission of discriminatory gang membership evidence through a s…
24-7379 Andra G. Green v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law firearms-offense hobbs-act jurisdictional-elements sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) can be used to punish a person for a Hobbs Act robbery when the robbery is not located in § 924(c)
24-7380 Megan Rosenbaum v. Gregory A. Thompson, Sr. Indiana Denied IFP civil-rights due-process eviction hearing-denial legal-representation small-claims-court Whether the Small Claims Court of Hendricks County violated the petitioner's civil rights by denying the right to attend a hearing and defend against …
24-7381 Charlene Rosa v. Florida Florida Dismissed IFP None Question not identified.
24-7382 Issac Jermale Fisher v. Missouri Missouri Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-significance courtroom-closure public-access structural-error trial-court-standards waller-v-georgia When do intentional actions designed to restrict the public's entry to the courtroom constitute a closure of constitutional significance that, unless …
24-7384 Edgar Martinez-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
24-7385 Luster Pernell Burns, Jr. v. Jeff Tanner, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fair-trial mistrial prosecutorial-misconduct Did the prosecutor engage in intentional misconduct in a previous trial which goaded the defense into moving for a mistrial, which barred retrial in t…
24-7388 Adeoye O. Adebowale v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-record due-process evidence-fabrication law-enforcement police-misconduct Whether fabricated criminal arrest records created through police misconduct violate a defendant's constitutional rights to due process and fair adjud…
24-7389 Nathan Ray Foreman v. Texas Texas Denied IFP appellate-counsel constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-misconduct Whether the failure of initial appellate counsel to investigate jury misconduct arising from a juror's relationship with a co-defendant constitutes in…
24-7390 Rickey Leon Scott v. California California Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-7391 Angel L. Martinez v. Howard Sissem, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court federal-law ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-standard Was the District Court's decision that Petitioner received effective assistance of counsel, contrary to or involve an unreasonable application of clea…
24-7392 Jonathan Mota v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP claim-preclusion collateral-review direct-appeal ninth-circuit procedural-rule section-2255 Does the Ninth Circuit's rule that issues raised and rejected on direct appeal are not reviewable in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition conflict with the gen…
24-7393 Walter Aceituno v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP coram-nobis effective-assistance-counsel immigration-consequences padilla-standard permanent-ban sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defense attorney is required to advise a client of a permanent immigration re-entry ban under Padilla v. Kentucky and the Sixth Ame…
24-7394 Edwin D. Calligan v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-disqualification procedural-grounds sixth-amendment Whether jurists of reason would find it debatable that a Certificate of Appealability (COA) should have been issued under Slack v. McDaniel after the …
24-7395 In Re Isaac Gray Denied IFP brady-violation conflict-of-interest ineffective-assistance peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct trial-counsel Did the State court err in denying trial counsel's effectiveness in multiple instances, including challenging peremptory challenges, filing sentence m…
24-7398 Dionte Dorun Matlock v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-law facial-challenge gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) facially violates the Second Amendment?
24-7399 Lake Robinson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment stand-your-ground Whether defense counsel's failure to request a pretrial immunity hearing constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel under the Sixth and Fourteenth …
24-7401 Alvaro Quezada v. James Hill, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP brady-violation certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance napue-claim state-court-review Did the Ninth Circuit's summary denial of a COA here so clearly misapply Glossip's mandate regarding Napue and Buck's modest standard for granting a C…
24-7402 Braddic Deshaun Rollerson v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-law federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether there is an obvious and irreconcilable clash between § 922(g)(1) and the rights protected by the Second Amendment
24-7405 Willie Triplett v. James LeBlanc, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis medical-complaint three-strikes-rule Whether the U.S. Middle District of Louisiana's dismissal of Petitioner's Civil Rights medical complaint as frivolous and denial of in forma pauperis …
24-7406 Doug Kisaka v. University of Southern California Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights claim-preclusion due-process federal-court-interpretation judicial-discretion res-judicata Can a district court judge rely on a state court's intermediate interpretation of a federal court dismissal to the disregard of the federal court's ow…
24-7407 Andrew McGraw v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
24-7408 In Re Stephen Brewer Denied IFP aggregate-effects commerce-clause constitutional-limits fair-notice federal-prosecution interstate-commerce Whether the 'Aggregate Effects' doctrine under Gonzales v. Raich expands federal prosecution powers beyond constitutional Commerce Clause limits
24-7409 Pablo Jacobo Felix-Samaniego v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-sentencing judicial-discretion presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines Should the court of appeals indulge a presumption of reasonableness for a sentence where the Sentencing Commission has subsequently amended the releva…
24-7411 Jessie Lee Bizzell v. Kurtzman Carson Consultants LLC Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
24-7412 Vladimir Alexander L. Swerchowsky v. U-Haul International, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
24-7413 Gregory Makozy, Sr. v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
24-7415 Michael Rinaldi v. United States, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
24-7416 Courtney B. Mathews v. Tennessee Tennessee Denied IFP attorney-client-privilege conflict-of-interest criminal-defense due-process ethical-burden trial-errors Does a criminal defense attorney becoming a witness against their own client due to intentional waiver of attorney-client privilege, creating divergen…
24-7417 Michael Elias Jalomo v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment and whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for firearm possession that has cross…
24-7418 In Re Zannie J. Lotharp Denied IFP commitment-review criminal-procedure federal-court habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge writ-of-certiorari Can the Supreme Court grant a writ of habeas corpus of commitment, and does it extend to a prisoner committed by a court without competent jurisdictio…
24-7419 Cardari Bradley v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment and whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for firearm possession that has cross…
24-7420 Olabamidele Olumide Bewaji v. Minnesota Minnesota Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-7421 Geoffrey James Brown v. Texas Texas Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-7422 In Re Jerome Eric Bivens Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process judicial-error jury-selection trial-procedure Does an illegally empaneled jury void a criminal conviction and/or mandate a new trial
24-7423 Apolonio Hernandez Ruiz v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
24-7424 Wilberto Arellano v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claims equitable-tolling habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-tolling Whether Petitioner is Entitled to Equitable Tolling Based on His Claim of Actual Innocence
24-7425 Joshua Sutherland v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-challenge federal-statute second-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Does 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comport with the Second Amendment? Does 18 U.S.C. §3583(g) comport with the Sixth Amendment?
24-7426 Stephen Lynn Buggs v. Texas Texas Denied IFP constitutional-claims federal-constitutional-rights fundamental-issues judicial-review subsequent-writs texas-court-of-criminal-appeals Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals err in refusing to consider petitioner's claims where he alleged fundamental and federal constitutional issues…
24-7427 Phillip White v. Mark Agbaosi, Warden Georgia Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-violations due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-bar Whether Georgia's Habeas Corpus Act violates constitutional protections when procedural bars prevent meaningful review of a potentially wrongful convi…
24-7428 Melchor Karl T. Limpin v. Gavin Newsom, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP employer-mandate false-claims-act honest-services-fraud immigration-status medicaid-fraud rico-act Whether federal funds for Medicaid were fraudulently used to subsidize health coverage for undocumented immigrants through California state legislatio…
24-7429 Randy Torres v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-standard circuit-split constructive-amendment racketeering-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement special-sentencing-factor Whether the district court's final jury instruction for the Special Sentencing Factor violated Apprendi v. New Jersey and constructively amended the i…
24-7430 Trenton Jared Powell v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP cellphone-search criminal-procedure digital-privacy evidence-preservation fourth-amendment warrant-requirement Can the police hold a defendant's cellphone seized incident to his arrest until necessary forensic software is developed based upon evidence that the …
24-7431 Keisha Reynolds v. HNS Management Co., Inc., dba CTTransit, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP court-appointed-attorney law-of-the-case second-circuit stare-decisis summary-judgment vested-right Whether Hodge v. Police Officers creates a vested right for court-appointed attorney under stare decisis or Law of the case doctrine
24-7432 Eleazar Diaz-Balleza v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process felony-conviction immigration-law jury-trial sentencing-enhancement Whether the existence of a pre-removal felony conviction under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b) is an element of an enhanced offense that must be proven to a jury b…
24-7433 Zquareus Troyez Immanuel Thomas v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-power due-process federal-law interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation Whether the 'affecting commerce' element of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(l) requires more than proving the firearm or ammunition traveled across state lines at …
24-7434 Ivan Gutierrez v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP codefendant criminal-sentencing equal-protection leadership-enhancement sentencing-guidelines ussg-section Did imposing a leadership enhancement on Petitioner, pursuant to USSG § 3B1.1(b) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines, but not on his codefendan…
24-7436 Hans Thomas Reiser v. California California Denied IFP constitutional-review death-penalty federal-courts habeas-corpus procedural-errors state-remedies Whether the split between Federal Courts and the California Supreme Court over state remedies for procedural errors in death penalty cases constitutes…
24-7437 Kaveh L. Afrasiabi v. President and Fellows of Harvard College Massachusetts Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest due-process harvard-university judicial-ethics judicial-recusal procedural-fairness Whether a presiding justice should have recused himself from a case involving Harvard University due to extensive connections and potential conflict o…
24-7440 In Re Cedric Jones, Sr. Denied IFP circuit-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-appellate-review habeas-corpus judicial-authority mandamus Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals exceeded its authority by entering a decision in direct conflict with Supreme Court precedent in a federal …
24-7442 Patrick L. Booker v. South Carolina South Carolina Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-contempt due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceeding procedural-rights summary-contempt Whether the Due Process Clause requires explicit notice and opportunity to be heard when a court delays criminal contempt punishment by one hour after…
24-7443 Gregory Majersky v. LCM Property Management, Inc. Colorado Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-7444 Jameel Ibrahim v. United States Third Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-1291 appellate-jurisdiction district-court final-order interlocutory-appeal third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit erred in dismissing Petitioner's appeal for lack of jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 without remanding to the district co…
24-7445 In Re James Michael Fayed Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3142 bail-revocation case-of-first-impression false-imprisonment fourth-amendment fruit-of-poisonous-tree Whether 18 USC§ 3142 is binding on lower courts and whether a district court's deliberate disobedience of mandatory bail provisions constitutes false …
24-7446 Telly Royster v. Joseph Terra, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-health sixth-amendment Whether the failure to consider trial counsel's mental health issues in evaluating ineffective assistance of counsel violates the Sixth Amendment righ…
24-7447 Gilbert Aguirre v. Department of Defense Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure chevron-deference fraud-upon-court judicial-review rule-60-motion veterans-preference Is a Rule 60 Motion for Fraud upon the Court sufficient basis for judicial intervention and review on its merits?
24-7449 Marco Antonio Casillas v. Janan Cavagnolo, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the Ninth Circuit's practice of adjudicating habeas petition merits at the COA stage violates Supreme Court precedent and statutory requiremen…
24-7450 Zachery James Edward Rowe v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP buyer-seller-rule complete-defense criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy jury-instruction sixth-amendment Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision affirming the refusal to give a buyer-seller instruction in a drug conspiracy case conflicts with this Court's ho…
24-7451 Walston Owen v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-statute jury-finding racketeering-act rico-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement substantive-crime Whether a defendant convicted of RICO conspiracy under 18 USC § 1962(d) is subject to enhanced sentencing under § 1963(a) based on a jury finding of a…
24-7452 Robert Hart v. Beth Mae Hart California Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-estoppel constitutional-principles due-process fourteenth-amendment issue-preclusion judicial-reformation Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits application of the doctrine of issue preclusion to a party who did not participate …
24-7453 In Re Curtis Baldwin Denied IFP aggregate-effects child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-limits federal-prosecution interstate-commerce Does the 'Aggregate Effects' doctrine under Gonzales v Raich expand federal prosecution powers beyond the original constitutional limits of the Commer…
24-7454 William Demont White, Jr. v. Lisa Stenseth, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-court habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurists Whether a federal court may find that 'reasonable jurists would not disagree' about denying a certificate of appealability when other courts have reso…
24-7455 Garland E. Williams v. United States Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-injury due-process frivolous-dismissal in-forma-pauperis subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a federal statute precludes procedural redress of a timely invoked constitutional injury, and whether a district court's dismissal of a compla…
24-7456 Daniel Jones v. Danielle Tope Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review magistrate-act Whether the lower courts erred in adjudicating habeas corpus petitions without clearly established law and in departing from standard judicial review …
24-7459 Steven Lee Vanzant v. David Rodgers, Warden Tenth Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-7460 Alvin Porterie, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-procedure overbreadth-doctrine state-conviction statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant challenging a prior state conviction under the Armed Career Criminal Act must produce actual state court decisions showing non-gen…
24-7462 Henry Weaver v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP allen-charge due-process evidence-rule fifth-amendment grand-jury lay-opinion Should the Fifth Amendment apply to grand jury proceedings, and do Allen charges unconstitutionally influence minority jurors, and do law enforcement …
24-7464 Shukeitha Jackson v. AbbVie, Inc. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appointed-counsel civil-rights due-process mental-illness pro-se-litigant title-vii Whether a pro se litigant with documented severe mental illness is entitled to appointed counsel in a civil rights employment matter under Title VII w…
24-7465 Nikky Nicole Lujan v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-amendment investigative-detention law-enforcement-questioning probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop Whether reasonable suspicion exists when an officer relies on a driver's allegedly suspicious answer to an itinerary question without further inquiry,…
24-7466 Patrick Joseph Duncan, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure state-law Whether federal courts may use state law definitions to narrow Fourth Amendment protections during law enforcement stops
24-7467 Eldon Gale Samuel, III v. Terema Carlin, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process juvenile-waiver miranda-rights self-incrimination Whether a 14-year-old knowingly and voluntarily waived Miranda rights during custodial interrogation
24-7468 Donald Perry v. U.S. Bank Trust N.A., as Trustee for LSF9 Master Participation Trust Massachusetts Denied Response WaivedIFP asset-transfer fdic-transfer judicial-scrutiny mortgage-assignment operation-of-law stare-decisis Whether the FDIC's transfer of Washington Mutual Bank to JPMorgan Chase constituted an 'operation of law' immunizing the transaction from judicial scr…
24-7469 David Simmons v. Alaska Alaska Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
24-7470 Joshua I. Martinez v. Florida Florida Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-7471 Quintin T. Ferguson v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP arson-statute criminal-law interstate-commerce overbreadth-doctrine sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Did the Seventh Circuit err by concluding Mr. Ferguson's § 844(i) arson conviction was not overbroad?
24-7472 Thomas Frank Andrews, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
24-7475 Samuel Mateo-Martinez v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law discriminatory-purpose equal-protection legislative-intent racist-origins statutory-interpretation Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo…
24-7476 Arturo Alexis Ordonez-Flores v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law discriminatory-purpose equal-protection judicial-review legislative-intent racist-statute Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo…
24-7477 Arnold Wayne McCartney v. Jonathan Frame, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bifurcated-trial certificate-of-appealability counsel ineffective-assistance mercy-phase structural-error Did the Court of Appeals err in denying the Petitioner a certificate of appealability on his constitutional claim related to structural error and/or i…
24-7478 Shaquan Dannard McCall v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process plea-agreement Is a defendant's right to due process of law violated when the government requires an appeal waiver as part of a plea agreement?
24-7479 Johnnie Franklin Wills v. Michael Reger, Superintendent, Northern Correctional Facility Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process recidivist-statute residual-clause supreme-court-precedent Whether a judicially crafted residual clause allowing life sentences under a state recidivist statute is unconstitutional in light of recent Supreme C…
24-7480 Otis Ray Whitehead, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-analysis felon-prohibition firearm-possession historical-precedent second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether a court may uphold the constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(l) based solely on Heller's presumptively lawful language without conducting hi…
24-7482 Raphael Stein, Acting on Behalf of His Minor Children J. S., Z. N., and A. Z. v. Adeena Kohn Second Circuit Denied IFP child-abduction custody-rights habitual-residence hague-convention international-law one-year-exception Whether an actual breach of custody rights must occur to establish wrongful retention under the Hague Convention, or if mere notice of an intended fut…
24-7483 DeAngelo Zieglar v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedIFP caldwell-precedent capital-punishment constitutional-procedure death-penalty jury-selection moratorium-impact In light of Caldwell v. Mississippi, 472 U.S. 320 (1985), where a state has instituted an indefinite and formal moratorium on the death penalty, wheth…
24-7484 Christopher Langdon v. Sun Lake Multi-Family Holdings, LLC, et al. Florida Denied IFP court-access due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legal-standards pro-se-litigation Do the courts in Florida deny due process, equal protection, and meaningful access to the courts for pro se, non-prisoner litigants?
24-7485 Christopher Langdon v. Sun Lake Multi-Family Holdings, LLC, et al. Florida Denied IFP court-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-access legal-standards pro-se-litigation Do the courts in Florida deny due process, equal protection, and meaningful access to courts for pro se, non-prisoner litigants?
24-7487 Nicholas Noelani D. Smith v. Alabama Alabama Denied IFP capital-murder due-process fourteenth-amendment lesser-included-offenses specific-intent voluntary-intoxication Whether a criminal defendant in a capital trial is deprived of his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process when the evidence supports voluntary into…
24-7488 Richard W. Kelley v. Maine Maine Denied IFP fourth-amendment government-surveillance gps-tracking personal-property privacy-interest vehicle-search Does a regular passenger in a vehicle being GPS tracked by the Government have a Fourth Amendment privacy interest in his movements and the vehicle, w…
24-7490 Clint Robert Schram v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-evidence due-process minor-exploitation sentencing-standards uncharged-misconduct Whether the government must prove images of child pornography depict actual minors and whether the introduction of uncharged pornographic images undul…
24-7492 Tony Chaney v. Chicago Housing Authority Seventh Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment administrative-procedure-act agency-discretion due-process fair-hearing housing-rights Whether housing agencies receiving federal funding have the authority to unilaterally deny residents a fair hearing under the Administrative Procedure…
24-7493 Christopher David Harrell v. Seth Norris, Warden Wyoming Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof due-process fourteenth-amendment kidnapping-statute sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Wyoming Supreme Court's interpretation of kidnapping statutes unconstitutionally reallocates the burden of proof and violates due process …
24-7494 Jesse Lavadis Crawford v. Michigan Michigan Denied IFP asset-seizure circuit-court drug-transaction due-process post-deprivation-hearing proportionality Whether a Circuit Court must apply a specific test for determining when a post-deprivation hearing is required under the Due Process Clause, and wheth…
24-7496 Allen Odell Woods v. Keithe Turner, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-claim criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct witness-impeachment Whether counsel's performance was constitutionally deficient in failing to raise Brady claims, locate key witnesses, impeach state witnesses, and chal…
24-7497 Michael Marion Cotham v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process faretta-right ineffective-assistance self-representation Whether the Arizona Court of Appeals' decision was 'contrary' to Faretta v. Arizona regarding termination of self-representation rights
24-7498 Dasahn Crowder v. Massachusetts Massachusetts Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-decision constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy ex-post-facto second-amendment Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause precludes retrial after a conviction was vacated due to failure to present evidence on an essential element in ligh…
24-7499 Rodney Mesquias v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability counsel-preparation ineffective-assistance judicial-standard post-conviction trial-continuance Whether the lower courts erred in applying the standard for determining a certificate of appealability in a post-conviction proceeding involving ineff…
24-7500 Ramon Carlos Hernandez v. Texas Texas Denied IFP cell-phone-search fourth-amendment law-enforcement-search particularity-requirement privacy-interest warrant-limitation Does the Fourth Amendment's particularity requirement place any limitations on the search of a cell phone beyond requiring that a search warrant limit…
24-7501 Jacob Allen Judd v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law firearms-prohibition nonviolent-offense prior-conviction second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment as applied to an individual whose prior convictions for 'crime[s] punishable by imprisonme…
24-7503 Bradley J. Harris v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-circuit amendment-821 judicial-discretion procedural-error sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of a sentence reduction under Amendment 821 despite procedural errors and all…
24-7504 Daniel Ray Garcia v. Matthew Joseph Kacsmaryk, District Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
24-7505 Donald Evans v. Jasen Bohinski, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy ex-post-facto sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether consecutive sentences for two alternative pleadings of the same aggravated assault statute violate double jeopardy principles, and whether the…
24-7506 Allan Douglas Wilson v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP defamation-claim federal-tort-claims-act official-conduct removal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction westfall-act Whether a federal district court may dismiss a defamation case for lack of subject matter jurisdiction after removal under the Westfall Act, rather th…
24-7507 Osmar Alexis Alvarez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearms-possession gun-rights interstate-commerce second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment and whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for firearm possession that has cross…
24-7509 Jacob Mathias Rubinstein v. Eric Rardin, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure custody-credit detention-definition federal-statute legal-restrictions statutory-interpretation Does 'official detention' under 18 U.S.C. §3585(b) include restrictive forms of 'release' under 18 U.S.C. §3142(c) when those restrictions severely li…
24-7510 Beit Ha Kavod v. City of Canton, Ohio Ohio Denied Response WaivedIFP building-codes constitutional-law first-amendment free-exercise-clause municipal-regulation religious-discrimination Whether a municipality enforcing building codes violates the Free Exercise Clause when treating one religious organization differently from another
24-7511 Mario Maximo Medina-Quijije v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP article-i-powers due-process felonies-clause foreign-prosecution maritime-drug-law vessel-nationality Whether the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (MDLEA) exceeds Congress's Article I powers and violates due process when prosecuting foreign citizens w…
24-7513 Tracy A. Roberson v. Brian Eller, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa federal-review fourth-amendment habeas-corpus statutory-construction stone-v-powell Whether the Antiterrorism and Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) expressly overruled Stone v. Powell and allows state prisoners to litigate Fourth Amen…
24-7515 Joseph Counts v. Maine Maine Denied IFP None Question not identified.
24-7516 Darrell Allen Hess v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP counsel-denial fraud-on-court habeas-corpus procedural-bars sixth-amendment state-ground Whether Oklahoma's application of successive postconviction procedural bars constitutes an adequate and independent state ground precluding federal re…
24-7517 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. City of Miami, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion section-1983 Whether the 11th Circuit and Southern District of Florida erred in dismissing Petitioner's complaint against the City of Miami and violating Petitione…
24-7518 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Natasha Katherina Smith Florida Dismissed IFP appellate-review best-interest-standard child-custody judicial-discretion motion-denial timesharing Whether the trial court's denial of unsupervised timesharing was improper due to lack of specific findings of fact or conclusions of law
24-7519 Frederick S. Koger v. Charles E. Kleidon, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP dismissal judicial-procedure mental-health perjury police-misconduct statute-of-limitations Whether the petitioner's post-traumatic stress disorder and alleged judicial failure to consider case merits justify dismissal with prejudice, and whe…
24-7520 Salvador Nolasco Romero v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court guilty-plea judicial-discretion legal-error Does the district court commit legal error in rejecting a guilty plea based on a legally inadequate defense, or can the district court reject it in an…
24-7521 Anthony D. Williams v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process government-burden revocation-hearing supervised-release witness-absence Whether Mr. Williams' due process rights were satisfied when the government failed to show good cause for a witness's absence from a supervised releas…
24-7522 Rachael Lynn Boehme v. Oregon Oregon Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-representation sixth-amendment Whether a trial court commits reversible error by denying a defendant's request to proceed pro se and refusing to replace ineffective court-appointed …
24-7523 Sean Kerwin Bindranauth v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court deliberate-ignorance district-court jury-instructions legal-error Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner direct review where the district court fundamentally misstated the law on de…
24-7524 Mark Allen Brown v. South Carolina South Carolina Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
24-7525 Lacey Mark Sivak v. Idaho Idaho Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
24-7526 Dwayne Lamonica Ford v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment and whether Congress may criminalize intrastate firearm possession based solely on th…
24-7527 Kh'Lajuwon Amari Murat v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP congressional-intent judicial-construction plain-meaning revocation statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether, when a district court revokes a term of supervised release and imposes a period of imprisonment followed by a new term of supervised release,…
24-7528 John A. Sam v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process felon-in-possession firearm-ban second-amendment Whether the application of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) to a convicted felon plainly violates the Second Amendment
24-762 Gary Pisner v. Robert McCarthy, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) appellate-procedure due-process judicial-review opinion-explanation procedural-requirements right-of-appeal Is there a minimum amount of explanation in an appellate opinion necessary to meet due process requirements, to verify that an appellate court has act…
24-784 Arch Resources, Inc., fka Arch Coal, et al. v. Douglas Pennington, Acting Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, Department of Labor, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) administrative-law agency-action black-lung-benefits chenery-doctrine circuit-split judicial-review Did the Sixth Circuit err in not applying the SEC v. Chenery Corp. rule to Black Lung Benefits Act cases, contrary to other circuit court interpretati…
24-796 Missouri, et al. v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Amici (3) constitutional-interpretation federal-courts judicial-review standing state-sovereignty tenth-amendment Can federal courts second-guess a State's 'reason' for exercising Tenth Amendment authority?
24-857 Brian Estrada v. Jacob Smart Tenth Circuit Denied administrative-exhaustion civil-rights excessive-force jury-trial section-1983 seventh-amendment Whether the Seventh Amendment's right to a trial by jury extends to issues of fact related to the exhaustion of administrative remedies
24-919 Mike Miller v. Dillon Rock Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-canine qualified-immunity use-of-force Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying qualified immunity to a police canine officer for the duration of a canine bite during an arrest of an arme…
24-948 Patricia Guerrero, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of California, et al. v. Stephen Moreland Redd Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-procedure circuit-split judicial-review mootness munsingwear-doctrine vacatur Whether, under United States v. Munsingwear, a court of appeals' decision should be vacated when an appeal becomes moot by happenstance while a petiti…
24-970 Dagoberto Luna v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) None
24-983 Havana Docks Corporation v. Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd., et al. Eleventh Circuit Granted CVSGAmici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) cuban-regime foreign-policy libertad-act private-right-of-action property-confiscation trafficking Whether a plaintiff must prove that the defendant trafficked in property confiscated by the Cuban government as to which the plaintiff owns a claim, o…
24-986 Mendocino Railway, a California Corporation v. Kate Huckelbridge, Executive Director, California Coastal Commission, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) abstention-doctrine circuit-conflict federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion preemption-claims state-court-action Whether the Court should abrogate or clarify the Colorado River abstention doctrine
24-998 Officer Eddie Boyd, III, et al. v. Fred Watson Eighth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) causation-standard clearly-established-law first-amendment qualified-immunity retaliatory-force section-1983 Whether the Eighth Circuit's decision violated 'clearly established' law directives and the objective reasonableness standard for First Amendment reta…
25-10 Rodney Dale Harmon v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability civil-criminal-context fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel search-and-seizure Whether the District Court or the Court of Appeals should have granted a certificate of appealability when the issue in habeas is the ineffectiveness …
25-100 Javier Enrique Barraza-Miranda v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-review due-process extraterritorial-action government-liability sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether the Fifth Circuit correctly determined that the U.S. Government's extraterritorial inaction did not violate the Petitioner's Sixth Amendment r…
25-101 J. M. F. v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Connecticut Denied Response Waived conflict-of-interest criminal-defendant effective-counsel legal-malpractice right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the threat of a civil action by a criminal defendant against his attorney is a per se denial of the right to effective counsel guaranteed by t…
25-102 Jayne Swinford v. Officer Joshua Santos, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process jury-trial procedural-rules qualified-immunity seventh-amendment Whether the lower courts violated the Seventh Amendment's guarantee of a jury trial and the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause by dismissing Petitio…
25-103 BofI Federal Bank, nka Axos Bank v. Charles Matthew Erhart Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived affirmative-defense burden-shifting employment-law personnel-action sarbanes-oxley whistleblower-protection Under AIR-21's two-step framework, can evidence showing an employee's protected activity was a contributing factor in the unfavorable personnel action…
25-104 Joe Louis Adams, Jr. v. 3D Systems, Inc. Fourth Circuit Denied arbitration-clause civil-rights double-jeopardy electronic-filing jurisdiction pro-se-litigant Whether the Federal District Court improperly denied Pro Se litigant's ECF notification privileges and jurisdiction to enforce trade agreement past ar…
25-109 Hong Thu Nguyen v. Chris McBee, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied arson certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance insurance-fraud Whether a certificate of appealability should be issued to review the district court's application of the Due Process Clause regarding financial evide…
25-11 Margaret M. FitzGerald v. Michael Alan Knaub, et al. Pennsylvania Denied Response Waived abuse-prevention child-custody constitutional-rights domestic-violence family-law judicial-malfeasance Whether the systemic failure of judicial and medical professionals to address domestic violence and child custody issues constitutes a violation of co…
25-111 Timothy Carver v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony insanity-defense mental-defect neurodegenerative-disease Whether due process permits a jury to reject an affirmative insanity defense supported by clear and convincing medical evidence when the government pr…
25-118 Hood River Distillers, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board District of Columbia Denied Response Waived bargaining-impasse judicial-review labor-law national-labor-relations-board substantial-evidence unilateral-changes Does review for 'substantial evidence' require courts to ensure that the Board's decision is reasonably supported by the evidence as a whole, includin…
25-12 Arrin Farrar, et ux. v. Textron Aviation, Inc., et al. Kansas Denied airworthiness circuit-split due-process general-aviation-revitalization-act jury-trial statutory-interpretation Whether various State and Federal Courts have inconsistently applied the General Aviation Revitalization Act of 1994 by denying litigants a jury trial…
25-121 Kera Morgan, as Administrator and Personal Representative of the Estate of Phillip Raymond Morgan v. Union Pacific Railroad Company, a Delaware Corporation Iowa Denied Response Waived employee-suicide federal-employers-liability-act negligence workplace-harassment wrongful-death zone-of-danger Whether the 'zone of danger' test from Gottshall applies to FELA wrongful death claims involving employee suicide, and whether workplace harassment-in…
25-122 David Alan Carmichael, et al. v. Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived damages-liability due-process free-exercise official-capacity religious-freedom right-to-travel Does the 'appropriate relief' of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act allow for damages liability or nominal damages against the United States for br…
25-123 Matthew Joseph Connolly v. City of Southfield, Michigan Michigan Denied Response Waived criminal-ordinance due-process first-amendment free-speech probation-conditions public-forum Whether the Due Process Clause protects defendants from being prosecuted under an ordinance that criminalizes expression in public forums, and whether…
25-124 Theresa Maria Laws v. Borough of Lansdale, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine malicious-prosecution monell-claim probable-cause section-1983 Whether lack of probable cause as an element of malicious prosecution under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 is a factual question for the jury; whether dismissal of …
25-127 Jonathan F. Ball v. United States District Court for the District of Maryland Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived crime-victims-rights-act due-process legal-duties retaliation sentencing-hearing victim-status Whether a person asserting victim status under the Crime Victims' Rights Act is guaranteed due process to present testimony and evidence at sentencing…
25-129 Day Pacer LLC, et al. v. Federal Trade Commission Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-monetary-penalties do-not-call-registry federal-trade-commission outbound-telephone-call regulatory-definition telemarketing-sales-rule Whether a telephone call by a telemarketer that is not initiated to induce the purchase of goods or services or solicit a charitable contribution is a…
25-130 Francis McLain v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived criminal-conviction indictment-elements jurisdictional-defect jury-instructions rule-60b4 trust-fund-penalty Whether a district court can deny a Rule 60(b)(4) motion to vacate a criminal conviction based on jurisdictional defects or incomplete indictment/jury…
25-137 Jaden T. Floyd v. United States Armed Forces Denied Response Waived appellate-review court-martial due-process military-justice pre-docketing-delay speedy-review Whether, in evaluating a claim for a pre-docketing due process violation, a court can effectively require an appellant to assert the right to speedy a…
25-139 Michele A. Cornelius v. CVS Pharmacy, Inc., et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived arbitration dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act legislative-intent sexual-harassment statutory-interpretation Whether 'any dispute' under the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021 applies to all disputes or only the firs…
25-141 Arnold G. Phillips v. Cecilia Abundis, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-hearing atomic-energy-act due-process medical-license nuclear-medicine settlement-agreement Whether the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois improperly suspended a medical license without notice or hearing in vio…
25-144 Thomas D. Foster, APC v. Coke Morgan Stewart, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure constitutional-vagueness lanham-act statutory-interpretation trademark-application trademark-law Whether the Federal Circuit improperly considered post-filing government developments to refuse a trademark application and whether Section 2(a)'s pro…
25-145 Total Quality Logistics, LLC v. Robert Cox, as Personal Representative and Special Administrator of the Estate of Greta Cox Sixth Circuit Pending Amici (2) federal-transportation-law freight-broker motor-carrier negligence-claim preemption safety-exception Whether a common-law negligence claim against a freight broker for selecting a motor carrier is preempted by the Federal Aviation Administration Autho…
25-146 Mohammad Nauman Chaudhri, Mohammad Rehan Chaudhri, & Zahida Aman v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived criminal-law federalism legislative-intent plain-meaning state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation Whether a court must apply the plain language of a federal criminal statute without considering historical state authority or congressional intent whe…
25-149 United Services Automobile Association v. PNC Bank N.A. Federal Circuit Denied administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-decision arbitrary-capricious patent-challenge patent-trial-appeal-board Whether an agency decision is arbitrary and capricious when it fails to justify a different result reached on saliently similar facts, but involving a…
25-15 Bellevue School District No. 405 v. C. S. A., a Minor, By and Through His Guardians B. W. A. and P. E. S. Washington Denied Response Waived federal-law ferpa gonzaga school-district state-pra supremacy-clause Do multiple appellate decisions interpreting FERPA conflict with both Gonzaga and the congressional intent underlying FERPA?; Do appellate decisions l…
25-150 Anton Joseph Lazzaro v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived age-of-consent criminal-law federal-statute mens-rea sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation Does a person who engages in otherwise lawful, consensual sex with a 16 or 17-year-old dating partner commit 'sex-trafficking' if the person gives unc…
25-157 Richard Hall v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived anti-kickback-statute burden-of-persuasion criminal-defense federal-health-care-program safe-harbor statutory-interpretation Which party bears the burden of persuasion for an AKS safe harbor, once the defendant has produced sufficient evidence to put the defense in play
25-158 R. J. Reynolds Vapor Company v. Altria Client Services LLC Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived apportionment expert-testimony federal-circuit patent-damages patent-infringement royalty-calculation Does the Federal Circuit's 'built-in apportionment' exception violate Garretson v. Clark's requirement of apportionment in patent damages cases?
25-16 Larry Elliott Klayman v. Judicial Watch, Inc., et al. District of Columbia Denied appellate-review attorney-fees court-of-appeals district-court judicial-procedure magistrate-recommendation Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit err in affirming the district court's order regarding attorney's fees and costs?
25-164 Mitzi Baker v. Social Security Administration Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived employment-law individual-right-action retaliatory-intent sarbanes-oxley statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection Whether federal whistleblowers have to prove 'retaliatory intent' in an Individual Right to Action (IRA) under the Whistleblower Protection Enhancemen…
25-169 Clifford A. Lowe, et al. v. ShieldMark, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived advisory-opinion alternative-ruling appellate-review dismissal-with-prejudice judicial-power subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a district court retains power to issue an alternative decision on the merits after dismissing a case for lack of subject matter jurisdiction,…
25-17 D R Burton Healthcare LLC v. Trudell Medical International Inc. Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived case-management civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment patent-litigation trial-timeline Whether a district court's order changing the time to trial from 326 to 146 days, and discovery time from 231 to 108 days, constitutes a fair legal pr…
25-171 Dimetri Alexander Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived criminal-prosecution enterprise-structure legal-distinction procedural-requirement racketeering statutory-interpretation Does the enterprise structure need to be distinct from that inherent in the racketeering activity alleged?
25-174 Bart Wade Reagor v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived bank-fraud criminal-conviction false-statement loan-application material-misrepresentation statutory-interpretation Whether the decision of the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is in direct conflict with this Court's recent holding in Thompson v. United States…
25-177 Vito Manente v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Third Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-interpretation direct-taxation internal-revenue labor-taxation sixteenth-amendment sovereign-person Whether the Sixteenth Amendment negates constitutional provisions on direct taxation and applies to sovereign persons' labor taxation
25-18 Cirrus Design Corporation v. Great Western Air, LLC, dba Cirrus Aviation Services, LLC Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived circuit-split jury-trial lanham-act monetary-relief seventh-amendment trademark-infringement Whether the Seventh Amendment jury-trial right applies in actions seeking monetary relief in the form of the infringer's profits
25-19 Laura Loomer, Individually and as a Candidate for United States Congress, et al. v. Mark Zuckerberg, Individually and as CEO of Meta Platforms, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split ninth-circuit post-judgment-facts res-judicata rico-claims social-media-censorship Does the Ninth Circuit's application of res judicata conflict with Supreme Court precedent and create a circuit split regarding post-judgment facts in…
25-190 John Patrick Moran v. Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived bill-of-attainder cemetery-removal descendant-rights religious-exercise stigmatic-proclamation symbolic-banishment Whether the removal of an irreplaceable religious resource from a cemetery injures the religious exercise of a mourning descendant and whether symboli…
25-192 Arthur Edward Ezor v. State Bar of California California Denied Response Waived california-law disbarment legal-review petition-of-review supreme-court-of-california Should the Supreme Court of California have granted the Petition of Review?
25-20 Ali Esseily v. Kathy Hochul, Governor of New York, et al. Second Circuit Denied appellate-review constitutional-interpretation fourteenth-amendment government-misconduct landlord-fraud legal-procedure Whether the Second Circuit misinterpreted the Fourteenth Amendment's application to alleged landlord fraud and governmental misconduct
25-214 Kenneth Fitch, et al. v. Maryland, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-discrimination healthcare-benefits medicare-part-d statutory-employment unilateral-contract unmistakability-doctrine Whether the unmistakability doctrine renders a statutory unilateral employment contract illusory and whether Maryland's discriminatory healthcare prov…
25-217 CeramTec GmbH v. CoorsTek Bioceramics LLC, fka C5 Medical Werks, LLC Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived design-functionality evidence-standard intellectual-property product-design trademark-law utility-patent Whether a utility patent that produces a product with multiple designs constitutes 'strong evidence' that every design aspect is functional under Traf…
25-218 Brian Smith v. Florida Florida Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure case-law florida-supreme-court jury-trial post-conviction-relief precedent Does case law from the Florida Supreme Court in 1999 take precedence over case law from the Florida 1st DCA in 1988, and what remedy exists when an ap…
25-22 Ricky Koel v. Citizens Medical Center, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Amici (1) circuit-split emergency-treatment emtala hospital-liability medical-malpractice patient-rights Whether the emergency imperative of EMTALA displaces a State Law medical malpractice exception and requires proper emergency patient treatment
25-223 LegitScript LLC v. PharmacyChecker.com LLC Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived antitrust-injury antitrust-standing clayton-act federal-courts private-right-action treble-damages Does a private plaintiff have standing to enforce antitrust laws when the primary purpose of its business is to facilitate unlawful activity by others…
25-23 Antoine Douglass Johnson v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing confidentiality-statute court-order jurisdictional-objections record-expansion substance-use-records Did the inferior courts err in applying Article III standing rules to jurisdictional objections and in interpreting the prerequisites for disclosure o…
25-231 Jon Wynn Jarrard, Sr. v. Wilfredo Martell, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Was the conviction obtained through false testimony in violation of the petitioner's 14th Amendment rights, and was the petitioner's right to confront…
25-241 Jason Arthur Aho v. Florida Florida Denied Response Waived evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether the trial court's summary denial of Petitioner's ineffective assistance of counsel claims without an evidentiary hearing violates constitution…
25-26 Berkeley County School District v. Hub International Limited, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived arbitrability arbitration-agreement contract-termination delegation-clause dispute-resolution jurisdiction Where parties enter into an agreement which expressly terminates on a date certain, and which contains an arbitration provision with a delegation clau…
25-27 Judy A. Brannberg v. Jefferson County Public Schools, et al. Colorado Denied Response Waived antitrust charter-school civil-rico due-process fourteenth-amendment rule-55 Whether Petitioner is entitled to $2.6 billion in civil RICO default judgment under Rule 55 where Defendants failed to respond, violating due process …
25-28 Claude Franklin Sanders v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-filing federal-register income-tax jurisdiction tax-court Is the IRS required to publish in the Federal Register the places where federal income tax returns are to be filed, and are citizens subject to income…
25-30 Marvin Keith Stitt v. City of Tulsa, Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied congressional-authority criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure indian-country indian-law tribal-sovereignty Whether a state may exercise criminal jurisdiction over an Indian for conduct in Indian country absent a valid congressional grant of authority
25-32 Mason Binion v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response Waived constitutional-obligation criminal-competency defendant-rights due-process harmless-error trial-court-procedure Whether a procedurally inadequate inquiry into a criminal defendant's competence is rendered constitutionally harmless if defense counsel does not con…
25-33 Pedro Ortiz-Romero v. Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico, et al. First Circuit Denied Response Waived adverse-employment-action comparator-evidence discrimination-inference employment-discrimination prima-facie-case retaliation Whether a complaint in an employment discrimination lawsuit must contain specific facts that establish a prima facie case of discrimination; whether c…
25-36 Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, Division Seven, et al. California Denied 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection parental-rights restraining-order Should United States Constitution Civil Rights including 14th Amendment Equal Protection and Due Process under Law guarantees be applicable to Civil H…
25-37 Theresa England v. Steven R. Siebe, et al. Indiana Denied common-law-tort equal-protection fourteenth-amendment joint-employer seventh-amendment third-party-tortfeasor Whether Indiana courts violated Petitioner's Fourteenth and Seventh Amendment rights by barring a common law cause of action against third-party tortf…
25-4 Preston L. Marshall, Individually and as Co-Trustee of the Peroxisome Trust v. Stephen D. Cook, as Co-Trustee of The Marshall Heritage Foundation and Marshall Legacy Foundation Fifth Circuit Denied citizenship-requirement diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts real-party-controversy subject-matter-jurisdiction trustees Whether diversity jurisdiction may be created by having one diverse co-trustee bring the lawsuit strategically excluding all nondiverse co-trustees, o…
25-40 Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived attempted-murder fbi-liability federal-government human-rights-violations judicial-immunity terrorism Can the Federal Government's Judicial influence and the Courts' interference protect the Federal Bureau of Investigation from liability for a Terroris…
25-42 Adolfo Sandor Montero v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived certiorari constitutional-enforcement constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review supreme-court-precedent Whether the Supreme Court remains committed to enforcing the Constitution as written or has subordinated constitutional fidelity to political expedien…
25-44 Fiyyaz Pirani v. Slack Technologies, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived burden-shifting circuit-conflict direct-listing prospectus-liability registration-requirement securities-act Whether Section 12(a)(2) of the Securities Act requires plaintiffs to plead and prove registration of shares purchased in a misleading prospectus and …
25-46 Boat Santa Rita II, Inc. v. Magnus Aadland First Circuit Dismissed Response Waived court-of-appeals maintenance-and-cure maritime-law punitive-damages standard-of-review vessel-owner What standard governs the award of punitive damages under general maritime law for maintenance and cure, and did the Court of Appeals err in applying …
25-47 Wilbert J. Alexander, II v. South Carolina Department of Transportation, Human Resources Manager, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived adverse-employment-action employment-discrimination harassment-policy race-discrimination retaliation title-vii Whether the courts improperly applied zero tolerance harassment policies under Title VII, EPA, ADA, and EEOC standards in evaluating multiple alleged …
25-5001 Clarence Austin, III v. Connecticut Office of the Claims Commissioner, et al. Second Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
25-5002 Juan Carlos Garridoaguilar v. California California Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure fourth-amendment search-and-seizure traffic-stop warrantless-search Whether the California Court of Appeal improperly shifted the burden of justifying a warrantless search from the State to the defendant
25-5003 Eric Richard Garza v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-conviction de-novo-resentencing fifth-circuit-interpretation mandate-rule sentencing-discretion Did the Fifth Circuit misapply its restrictive interpretation of the mandate rule which does not permit de novo resentencing, but limits to resentenci…
25-5005 Tawsif Tajwar v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP cumulative-error evidence-suppression jury-instructions mental-state sixth-amendment trial-court Whether a determinative response by the trial court to a jury question during deliberation results in prejudicial violation of a defendant's Sixth Ame…
25-5006 Fredrick Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP as-applied-challenge circuit-precedent federal-appeal firearm-possession rahimi-decision second-amendment Must a federal circuit court address the merits of a defendant's Second Amendment as-applied challenge to a firearm-possession charge under Rahimi and…
25-5007 Fredrick Johnson v. Ohio Ohio Denied IFP as-applied-challenge circuit-court firearm-possession intervening-precedent second-amendment state-court-appeal Must a state-court appellate system address the merits of a defendant's Second Amendment as-applied challenge to a firearm-possession charge under Rah…
25-5008 Stephen T. Aguiar v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-review coram-nobis due-process factual-innocence medical-evidence sentencing-guidelines Whether the Second Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of petitioner's claims despite evidence of factual innocence, new medical ev…
25-5010 Timothy Lynn Allen v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment suppression-motion terry-stop vehicle-search Did the lower courts err in finding that the search of petitioner's vehicle was justified under Terry v. Ohio, and does the Fifth Circuit's opinion co…
25-5011 Gregory Ifesinachi Ezeani v. Officer Jimenez, et al. Third Circuit Dismissed IFP None Question not identified.
25-5012 Gregory Ifesinachi Ezeani v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General Third Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-5013 Tawhyne M. Patterson, Sr. v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-review firearms-conspiracy jury-instruction plain-error predicate-offense substantial-rights Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in determining two alleged predicate offenses were 'so inextricably intertwined' that no rational juror could have fo…
25-5014 Phillip R. Durachinsky v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP competency-hearing critical-stages defense-counsel due-process effective-advocacy sixth-amendment Where defense counsel reasonably believes that their client may be incompetent, but the defendant disagrees, does the Sixth Amendment require a distri…
25-5015 Justin Dale Little v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-5016 General Parker v. Department of Housing and Urban Development, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied IFP access-to-justice civil-rights due-process pro-se-litigant rooker-feldman-doctrine statute-of-limitations Whether the 7th Circuit's dismissal of a pro se litigant's civil rights complaint constitutes a denial of access to courts and violates due process
25-5017 Brant Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause criminal-conviction due-process firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment Whether the government may deprive citizens of their Second Amendment rights based on a non-violent prior conviction and whether such prosecution viol…
25-5018 Lakeith Lynn Washington v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-error armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-error harmless-error judicial-review sentencing-error Whether Apprendi errors, including Erlinger violations, should be treated as trial errors subject to the Neder harmless-error test or as sentencing er…
25-5019 Chat Lowe v. Palm Tran, et al. Florida Denied IFP case-dismissal counsel-dereliction equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances procedural-rights statute-of-limitations Whether litigants' cases should be dismissed with prejudice due to counsel's dereliction, and whether equitable tolling requirements were met when ext…
25-5020 Dan L. Bozeman v. James R. Schiebner, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance probable-cause stone-v-powell warrantless-arrest Whether a defendant is considered to have received a full and fair consideration of a 4th Amendment claim under Stone v. Powell when trial and appella…
25-5021 Dajavan Speaks v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge gun-possession nonviolent-offense second-amendment self-defense Is § 922(g)(1) unconstitutional as applied to an individual with a nonviolent conviction who was a victim of a drive-by shooting and seeks to possess …
25-5022 Shemica Taylor v. Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied IFP executive-immunity federal-statute judicial-immunity legal-standard prosecutorial-standard rule-60 Whether an officer of the Judicial branch must be subject to a different standard to determine entitlement to immunity from prosecution
25-5024 Roy Glenn Reay v. Seth Norris, Warden Wyoming Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof due-process fourteenth-amendment kidnapping-statute sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether state kidnapping statutes unconstitutionally reallocate the burden of proof for extended imprisonment terms and violate due process by requiri…
25-5025 Santos Isabel Huete-Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP case-remand certiorari constitutional-law judicial-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States should be overruled and whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate, and remand in light of Erlinger …
25-5026 C. M. C. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Texas Denied IFP child-protective-services counsel-effectiveness dependency-proceeding due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires effective assistance of counsel in a dependency proceeding where parental rights w…
25-5027 Gregory Stevens v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-law felon-in-possession gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether a court may bypass a Second Amendment challenge to the felon-status offense at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) when the defendant could have been charge…
25-5028 Michael Blake DeFrance v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bipartisan-safer-communities-act criminal-procedure domestic-violence federal-law statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the relationships in 18 USC §921(a)(33)(A) defining misdemeanor crime of domestic violence serve jurisdictional and substantive purposes under…
25-5029 Damon D. Williams v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion attempted-robbery criminal-procedure fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the District Court abused its discretion in imposing maximum consecutive sentences for attempted robbery by erroneously applying Federal Sente…
25-5030 Brandon Lopez-Villegas v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-5031 Michael Odom v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver circuit-consensus due-process fifth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing-proceedings Whether the near consensus determination by the various Circuits to accept appeal waivers in plea agreements that extend to subsequent sentencing proc…
25-5032 In Re John Alan Conroy Denied IFP aggregate-effects commerce-clause constitutional-authority fair-notice federal-prosecution interstate-commerce Does the 'Aggregate Effects' doctrine under Gonzales v. Raich expand federal prosecution powers beyond the original constitutional limits of the Comme…
25-5034 Shawn Thomas Borne v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge facial-challenge gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Mr. Borne, in light of New York State Ri…
25-5035 Jennifer Lynn Dees, et al. v. Jillian Knox, et al. Second Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-immunity pro-se racketeering Whether federal courts can dismiss pro se, IFP civil rights and RICO complaints with prejudice at the pre-service stage without notice or opportunity …
25-5036 Wilfredo Feliciano-Rodriguez v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions federal-prosecution grand-jury interstate-commerce jurisdiction puerto-rico-statehood Whether a federal court can prosecute without verifying jurisdiction and whether the Respondent can usurp Puerto Rico's jurisdiction in violation of 1…
25-5037 James Valentino Franizer v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-5041 Geovani Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process harmless-error mandate-recall sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether a court of appeals violates due process by declining to recall a mandate where a petitioner demonstrates conviction of a non-existent offense …
25-5043 Cecil Jerome Quinn, Jr. v. Marshals, 7th Judicial, Spartanburg, South Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
25-5045 Raymond Dean Ordoukhanian v. Leah Wommack Chaney, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied IFP brady-violation due-process evidence-fabrication habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-immunity Whether prosecutors who intentionally alter facts and evidence with bad faith should be immune from legal consequences when exculpatory evidence is di…
25-5046 Pierre Haobsh v. Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights district-court due-process false-evidence habeas-corpus procedural-violation Whether the district court's denial of habeas corpus relief based on alleged procedural violations and false evidence constitutes a violation of due p…
25-5047 Michael Francis v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-amendment informant-reliability judicial-integrity law-enforcement-misconduct probable-cause search-warrant Were Petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights violated when an FBI Agent obtained a search warrant for Petitioner's car by deliberately withholding inform…
25-5048 Jeremy Wayne Holt v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP criminal-procedure discovery-violation due-process hearsay-evidence sixth-amendment speedy-trial Does a seven-year delay in bringing a sexual assault case to trial trigger a presumption of prejudice under Doggett v. United States, and does the pre…
25-5049 DaJohn M. Hymes v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-standard constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St…
25-5050 Carlos Caraballo v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review case-law findings-of-fact sentencing-guidelines special-offense-characteristic standard-of-review Whether the circuit court applied the appropriate standard of review regarding a challenge to the imposition of a Sentencing Guideline Special Offense…
25-5051 Kristian Darnell Moore v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-5052 Veronica Aquino-Dolores v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP arlington-heights-framework civil-rights-law criminal-prosecution discriminatory-purpose legislative-intent racist-origins Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo…
25-5057 John Doe v. Mark Glass, Commissioner, Florida Department of Law Enforcement Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-code constitutional-violation due-process expungement-statute fourth-amendment pseudonym-protection Whether a US District Court violates due process by denying a plaintiff the use of a pseudonym after state expungement of an arrest record and by excl…
25-5058 Jose Manuel Ayala-Alas v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discovery-violation due-process fair-trial interpreter-rights sentencing-enhancement Whether the district court violated Mr. Ayala-Alas's due process rights by requiring him to proceed to trial with only a Spanish interpreter despite h…
25-5061 Ronald Johnson v. Kansas Kansas Denied IFP constitutional-law due-process judicial-discretion mitigating-evidence prisoner-rights sentencing Whether a state prisoner's due process rights were violated when the sentencing court failed to consider mitigating evidence related to his individual…
25-5062 In Re Jerome Curry Denied IFP None Question not identified.
25-5064 Kenneth Kiprono Kirui v. Kerstin LeMaire, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. Arizona Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-5066 Danielle Sposito v. Linda Rollins-Threats Texas Denied IFP 42-U.S.C.-§-1988 child-custody civil-rights judicial-immunity malicious-actions parent-facilitator Whether a parent facilitator was entitled to judicial immunity when the actions she took in a child custody case were done maliciously and in excess o…
25-5068 Dwayne Anderson v. Ohio Ohio Denied IFP bill-of-particulars constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment Was Dwayne Anderson's right to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation against him violated when the state failed to provide him a bill …
25-5069 Arnold Anderson v. Terry Royal, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
25-5070 Kedrick Johnson v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation criminal-procedure evidence-disclosure forfeiture-by-wrongdoing legal-disclosure witness-testimony Did the State violate Brady v. Maryland when it failed to disclose a June 8, 2010, supplemental police report that would have made key witness Stephen…
25-5071 Martez Dion Mason v. Jeff Tanner, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP assault-with-intent-to-murder due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel offense-variables sixth-amendment transferred-intent Whether the evidence was insufficient to find Petitioner guilty beyond a reasonable doubt for assault with intent to murder on the theory of transferr…
25-5072 Khaled Miah v. United States Third Circuit Denied IFP criminal-law first-amendment interstate-communication social-media statutory-interpretation terroristic-threat Can an online social media post that at most forewarns of a possible future terroristic attack violate 18 U.S.C. § 875(c), if the post does not identi…
25-5073 William Menter v. New Jersey New Jersey Denied Response WaivedIFP cronic-standard due-process illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance state-court-decision strickland-standard Whether the state court's decision on Appellant's Illegal Sentence claims was contrary to State v. Yarbough and whether the Appellant's due process ri…
25-5075 Mark Jabben v. Texas Texas Denied IFP character-evidence confrontation-clause due-process expert-testimony sixth-amendment trial-procedure Whether the State Court violated the defendant's constitutional rights through multiple procedural errors during trial and sentencing
25-5076 Shomari Legghette v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-representation constructive-denial criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Whether defense Counsel's absence at a critical stage constructively denied representation as guaranteed by the sixth amendment
25-5078 Lawrence J. Turner v. Wisconsin Wisconsin Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-performance direct-review ineffective-assistance issue-preservation legal-standard reasonableness-test Whether, in assessing direct-review counsel's performance based upon the omission of a preserved issue, lower courts should either apply the clearly s…
25-5079 Leon Carter v. Bradley Mlodzik, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied IFP counsel-deprivation ex-parte-communication fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-instruction sixth-amendment Whether a writ of habeas corpus should issue when a bailiff ex parte reinstructed the jury in a criminal trial, depriving the defendant of counsel at …
25-5080 Kevin Coles v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-warrant bodily-injury criminal-investigation fourth-amendment jury-testimony police-report Whether an administrative warrant used as a subterfuge for criminal investigation violates Fourth Amendment protections and whether reading police rep…
25-5081 Eric Von Poole v. Keith Arnold, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-5082 Jake Bylsma v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review bankruptcy-fraud judicial-misconduct real-estate-fraud state-corruption third-circuit Is a Real Estate and Bankruptcy Fraud racket operated by the Pennsylvania Judicial Elite a compelling reason for Supreme Court review?
25-5084 Douglas Manning v. Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force prisoner-rights Whether a plaintiff's factual allegation of an unprovoked beating by prison staff constitutes a material issue under the Eighth Amendment
25-5085 Donald Perry v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida Denied IFP actual-innocence death-penalty florida-supreme-court habeas-corpus procedural-bar trial-court-jurisdiction Whether the Supreme Court of Florida can procedurally bar a habeas corpus petition based on actual innocence claims without relying on procedural rule…
25-5086 Jimmy Jacoby Carr v. Iowa Iowa Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-5087 Tashawn Burns v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split crime-of-violence hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)
25-5089 Veronica M. Johnson v. William S. Moore, Judge, Circuit Court of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-recusal pro-se-plaintiff Whether the unprecedented conduct of sitting Portsmouth Circuit Court judges in a sua sponte joint administrative Recusal Order violates a pro se Plai…
25-5090 Joseph Anthony Zinnerman, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-analysis firearm-possession historical-precedent probation-status second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether an individual's probation or supervised release status categorically strips them of Second Amendment protection under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), o…
25-5092 Hussein S. Yousif v. Susan Larson Christensen, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review rule-41 Whether the First and Fourteenth Amendments are meaningless for a United States citizen under Rule 41 and constitutional interpretation
25-5093 Hector Manuel Nunez-Cardenas v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure felony-conviction immigration-law jury-trial sentencing-enhancement Whether the existence of a pre-removal felony conviction under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b) is an element of an enhanced offense that must be proven to a jury b…
25-5094 Awad Mustafa v. HTS Services, Inc., et al. Texas Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process federal-claims jurisdiction supremacy-clause trial-court Whether the state's trial court has jurisdiction to hear this case with its federal claims, and whether the trial court's dismissal with prejudice vio…
25-5095 Patrick D. Reed v. George A. Fredrick, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus out-of-court-statements Whether, as three circuits hold in conflict with the Sixth Circuit, clearly established law prohibits an officer's testimony about an absent declarant…
25-5099 Franklin Ray v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence appeal-waiver due-process plea-agreement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether a lawyer's appeal waiver without a client's knowledge violates due process and Sixth Amendment rights when the underlying statute has been rei…
25-5100 David Joseph Peterson v. Black Body Corporation, dba Antec, Incorporated, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right credibility-determination due-process jury-trial seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether the lower court erred in making credibility determinations in allowing Respondent's Motion for Summary Judgment thereby denying Petitioner his…
25-5101 In Re Matthew Phillips Denied IFP constitutional-rights equal-protection habeas-corpus procedural-due-process sentence-execution state-prisoner Whether the Eleventh Circuit denied Matthew Phillips procedural due process by barring a second habeas petition when no adequate remedy exists for a f…
25-5102 Dannie Christopher Brashear v. Washington Washington Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-5103 In Re Matthew Phillips Denied IFP constitutional-rights equal-protection extraordinary-writ habeas-corpus procedural-due-process state-prisoner Whether the Eleventh Circuit denied Matthew Phillips procedural due process by barring a second habeas petition when no adequate remedy exists for a f…
25-5104 Marcus Moore v. Ace Insured/Chubb of Insurance Companies, et al. Mississippi Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-5105 Anthony Michael Laporte v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bureau-of-prisons extraordinary-compelling-reason mental-health-treatment rehabilitation sentence-reduction sentencing-disparity Can rehabilitation efforts, combined with other issues, constitute an extraordinary and compelling reason to reduce a sentence; can the district court…
25-5106 Milad Shaker v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process fraud-on-court jurisdictional-nullity post-conviction-relief Whether post-dismissal proceedings are void when no lawful conviction was entered and whether concealment of dismissal and suppression of exculpatory …
25-5107 Markos Pappas v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bail-reform-act constitutional-challenge detention-conditions due-process federal-courts pretrial-detention Whether the Bail Reform Act of 1984 is facially unconstitutional due to its lack of maximum detention duration, minimum conditions standards, and peri…
25-5109 In Re Maria Dolores Navarro Martin Dismissed IFP discretionary-power due-process federal-declaratory-judgment immigration-law jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether the District Court had jurisdiction under the Federal Declaratory Judgment Act and whether the Attorney General and Immigration officials exer…
25-5110 Brandon Michael Elwell v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-5111 Omar Agor, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights courtroom-closure judicial-discretion procedural-interpretation public-trial sixth-amendment Whether there is an exception to the Sixth Amendment's right to a public trial for courtroom closure that district and circuit courts characterize as …
25-5112 Brian Lee Corbett v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court judicial-discretion rule-35 sentencing supervised-release Whether Rule 35(a) of the Rules of Criminal Procedure allows a district court to reopen and modify a final, imposed sentence sua sponte
25-5113 Benjamin Dykman v. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights disability-discrimination eeoc-guidelines employer-responsibility institutional-liability workplace-discrimination Whether an employer at a large institution can deny and uphold workplace disability discrimination in violation of EEOC guidelines
25-5114 Emiliano Nava Munoz v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-deference judicial-precedent legal-overruling statutory-interpretation supreme-court-doctrine Whether the Court's decision in Kisor v. Wilkie abrogated or overruled its earlier decision in Stinson v. United States
25-5115 Gregory Kurzajczyk v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment probation-search supervised-release suspicionless-search Whether a probation officer's suspicionless search of a defendant's residence on supervised release violates the Fourth Amendment
25-5116 Mark Ellis v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence-sufficiency firearm-possession reasonable-doubt Whether a conviction must be vacated when evidence of firearm possession in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime is based on speculation and conjec…
25-5117 George P. Naum, III v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substances jury-instructions medical-purpose mens-rea plain-error subjective-intent Whether the Fourth Circuit unconstitutionally applied the plain error standard to affirm a physician's conviction where jury instructions misstated th…
25-5118 George Hamilton v. California Department of General Services, Government Claims Program, et al. California Denied IFP administrative-law constitutional-rights due-process government-claims mental-health-claims procedural-safeguards Does the Office of General Services' Government Claims Program violate due process by failing to process mental health claims filed by petitioner?
25-5119 Steven Dwayne Rigmaiden v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-appeal criminal-procedure louisiana-courts murder-evidence reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Louisiana courts erred in denying Petitioner's claim that the evidence was insufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he committ…
25-5120 Muzammil Ali v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability eighth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-error Was The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in error when it denied the Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability?
25-5121 Torris Bernard Hill v. Florida Florida Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standards Whether the Petitioner's fundamental 5th and 14th Amendment due process rights were violated by the prosecutor's failure to prove prior judgment and s…
25-5122 Raheem Brown v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-testify sixth-amendment Is a criminal defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to testify and to receive a fair trial abridged where trial counsel interferes with the…
25-5123 Lee R. Jackson v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied IFP None Question not identified.
25-5124 Jacob Graves v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether Mr. Graves' conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol As…
25-5125 Terrence Mack Booth v. Kevin McCoy, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-right evidentiary-hearing fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default Did the Fourth Circuit err in deferring to the lower courts' findings that the petitioner was not entitled to an evidentiary hearing or relief on his …
25-5126 Monika Gray-El v. United States, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
25-5127 John W. Biddle v. Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment identification-procedures prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether multiple constitutional violations, including due process, prosecutorial misconduct, and ineffective assistance of counsel, warrant Supreme Co…
25-5128 Albert Garza v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP compassionate-release covid-19-relief due-process federal-prisoners sentence-reduction statutory-interpretation Does 18 U.S.C. §4205(g) and §3582(c) unconstitutionally restrict compassionate release for federal prisoners sentenced before November 1, 1987, by lim…
25-5130 Markus Odon McCormick v. Sasha Graham, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
25-5132 Jennifer Murphey v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge due-process first-amendment freedom-of-thought treaty-enforcement war-on-drugs Whether the War on Drugs enforcement violates constitutional protections of freedom of thought and procedural due process through international treaty…
25-5133 Alexander P. Bebris v. National Center for Missing and Exploited Children District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation federal-authority foia-applicability incorporation-status law-enforcement-powers statutory-mandate Whether an entity becomes a U.S. 'authority' based on federal funding, statutory directives, and law enforcement powers, and if so, whether such an en…
25-5134 Nathan G. Flemming v. Taurean James, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP district-court-error due-process jury-influence procedural-default remmer-claim sentencing-delay Did the District Court err in finding that a 13-month delay between sentencing and imposition of sentence was not a violation of due process?
25-5135 Wen Liu v. University of Miami Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP contract-performance foreclosure-judgment legal-obligation mortgage-satisfaction property-law statutory-compliance Whether the University of Miami is legally obligated to provide a satisfaction of mortgage within 60 days after receiving full payoff amount
25-5136 Christopher Thomas Scamahorn v. Florida Florida Denied IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offenders meaningful-opportunity rehabilitation Whether under the Eighth Amendment as applied to the states via the Fourteenth Amendment, the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause prohibits the conti…
25-5137 Joel Salcedo v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether Mr. Salcedo was deprived of his right to a speedy trial in violation of his Sixth Amendment Guarantee by the United States Constitution
25-5138 Stephanie Mykonos v. Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider, LLP, et al. District of Columbia Denied IFP appellate-procedure brief-filing court-administration docketing pro-se writ-of-certiorari Whether the D.C. Circuit erred in failing to docket a pro se petitioner's timely filed brief
25-5139 In Re Michael Stevens Denied IFP aggregate-effects commerce-clause constitutional-limits fair-notice federal-prosecution interstate-commerce Whether the 'Aggregate Effects' doctrine under Gonzales v. Raich expands federal prosecution powers beyond constitutional Commerce Clause limits
25-5141 Dedric Mayfield v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial felony-conviction firearm-prohibition second-amendment sixth-amendment Whether the Second Amendment allows lifetime firearm prohibition for individuals with prior felony convictions and whether a district court's requirem…
25-5144 Gregory Michael Hawes v. Seth Norris, Warden Wyoming Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process mandatory-minimum Whether the Supreme Court should resolve a circuit split regarding mandatory minimum imprisonment terms and the unconstitutional reallocation of burde…
25-5145 Nicholas Bernard Acklin v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP attorney-ethics conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel In the extraordinary circumstances of this death penalty case, was it unreasonable for the state court to conclude that the defense attorney did not h…
25-5147 Mingguo Cho v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. Second Circuit Denied IFP citizens-rights constitutional-rights emergency-use-authorization fda-approval judicial-review medical-facts Question not identified.
25-5148 Jose Antonio Cossio, Jr. v. Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP air-force-court article-iii due-process mandamus supreme-court-precedent van-buren-decision Whether mandamus should issue against the Air Force when its court disregarded the Supreme Court's decision in Van Buren in violation of the Due Proce…
25-5149 Jerrell Sims v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure imprisonment reasonableness sentencing-review supervised-release Whether sentences of imprisonment following the revocation of supervised release should be reviewed for reasonableness or plain unreasonableness?
25-5151 J. Ines Ruiz-Rivera v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confession-admissibility criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error ninth-circuit supreme-court-precedent Whether courts should follow the direction of Fulminante and use 'extreme caution' before finding the admission of a confession is harmless error
25-5152 Zachary Charles Fowler v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553a advisory-range appellate-review criminal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines unwarranted-disparities Is a sentence that falls within the advisory guideline range categorically one that does not create unwarranted disparities among defendants with simi…
25-5154 Elijah Muhammad v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review breach-of-contract criminal-procedure due-process four-corners-doctrine plea-agreement Whether a court should only look at the 'four corners' of the plea agreement language when determining whether a breach occurred, or should also consi…
25-5155 Luis Payano-Perez v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP evidence-admissibility evidentiary-purpose inference-chain propensity-evidence rule-404b trial-court-discretion Whether a trial court, in admitting evidence under Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b), must explicitly articulate the 'chain of inferences' it relied upo…
25-5156 Marlin L. Royal v. Fidencio N. Guzman, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process evidence-law federal-procedure hearsay Whether the erroneous admission of hearsay accusatory statements prejudicially violated petitioner's federal constitutional rights
25-5157 Juan T. Tyler v. Luis Martinez, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-murder due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions premeditation prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the prosecution proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the shooter premeditated and deliberated an attempted murder, and whether the trial cour…
25-5158 Beau Chermer v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
25-5159 Laron Gregory v. Ohio Ohio Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion jury-verdict motion-review Whether the Ohio Court of Appeals' denial of a motion to review judgment regarding defective jury verdict forms constitutes an abuse of discretion vio…
25-5160 Bruce Holder v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-5161 Zachary C. Crouch v. Internal Revenue Service Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-proceedings constitutional-law de-novo-review federal-theft-laws sovereign-immunity supreme-law-of-land Whether sovereign immunity is constitutional when it directly contradicts federal theft laws and the Constitution of the United States
25-5163 Shawn Oaklief v. City of Mesa, Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-5164 Pierre Alexander Amerson v. Leslie Cooley Dismukes, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Adult Correction, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights counsel-representation due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-intervention plea-negotiations Whether a public defender's ineffective assistance of counsel during plea negotiations constitutes a violation of due process rights that warrants jud…
25-5165 Brock Beeman v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-5166 Thomas E. Camarda v. Elizabeth M. Whitehorn, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process separation-of-powers summary-judgment supremacy-clause Whether a federal court of appeals may refuse to enter judgment following an unrebutted dispositive appellate brief and summary judgment motion, and w…
25-5169 Richard Patrick Evensen v. California California Denied IFP force rape sexual-assault state-appellate-court substantial-evidence unconscious-state Does the record support the state appellate court's holding that substantial evidence supported a finding that petitioner used force to overcome Jane …
25-5170 Mark Richard Walters v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-law felony-possession firearms-restriction second-amendment statutory-interpretation Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comport with the Second Amendment as applied to a defendant whose most serious prior felony convictions involve fraud?
25-5171 Reginald Hitchcock v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing hearsay-evidence sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in denying an evidentiary hearing when evidence was presented showing the hearsay witness contradicted allegations swo…
25-5172 William Trampas Widmyer v. Jonathan Frame, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights federal-court habeas-corpus procedural-default rule-60b state-court Whether a Rule 60(B) motion challenging procedural default in a habeas corpus proceeding violates constitutional rights when state and federal court e…
25-5173 Douglas Dean Welsh v. Bobbi Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-violation cross-examination due-process ineffective-assistance search-warrant Did the district court err in ruling that the petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process and Sixth Amendment confrontation rights were violated by …
25-5174 James Bradley Hammond v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability district-court federal-review habeas-corpus time-limitation Whether the Court of Appeals should have issued a Certificate of Appealability (COA) when the 1-year limitation period commenced and the claim of actu…
25-5176 Mario Gabriel Rodgers v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Does 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comport with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
25-5178 Pablo Martinez-Lara v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-law fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
25-5179 Gerald Lynn Campbell v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act erlinger-error guilty-plea harmless-error-review sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Does the unique ACCA occasions-different inquiry render Erlinger error structural, and what is the proper harmless-error review test for a guilty plea…
25-5180 Sherrod Anthony Wright v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defendant-rights jury-trial sixth-amendment state-court waiver Whether the ancient right enshrined in the Sixth Amendment to trial by a twelve-member jury applies to a state court trial for major felonies where th…
25-5181 Samuel Adam Sanchez-Tena v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-indictment federal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(n), which prohibits individuals under indictment from receiving firearms, violate the Second Amendment?
25-5182 Ronda Melnychuk-Beselt v. Waldorf=Astoria Management LLC, a Foreign Limited Liability Company, et al. Hawaii Denied Response WaivedIFP ada-accommodations discovery-sanctions due-process fourteenth-amendment health-information-laws medical-records Whether the Court violated a foreign Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights during an attorney-only telephone status conference call by instructing …
25-5185 George W. Smith, Jr. v. Florida Florida Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process jurisdictional-challenge subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a trial court's failure to address subject matter jurisdiction or exercise of discretion to ignore jurisdictional challenges violates due proc…
25-5188 Bethzaeli Safier v. Thelma Woolridge Florida Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct probate-law Whether the Florida Supreme Court's refusal to review Petitioner's case violated the Equal Protection Clause by allowing differential treatment in pro…
25-5190 Curtis Dickerson v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP co-conspirators expert-testimony fourth-circuit hearsay insufficient-evidence monetary-forfeiture Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Dickerson's appeal where the District Court improperly entered a $2,400,000.00 Order of Monetary Fo…
25-5192 John Patrick Fletcher v. Bryan Coleman, Warden Colorado Denied IFP illegal-seizure judicial-process kidnapping-statute law-enforcement subject-matter-jurisdiction warrant-clause Whether law enforcement can use judicial acts to further an illegal seizure and whether courts possess subject matter jurisdiction over such acts
25-5193 Samuel San Miguel v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment due-process facial-challenge legislative-intent punitive-intent rule-59-motion Whether the District Court and Fifth Circuit improperly denied Petitioner's opportunity to provide 'clearest proof' that a Texas civil commitment act …
25-5195 Missouri, ex rel. Steven Albert Martin v. Ann Hansbrough, Presiding Judge, Circuit Court of Platte County, Missouri, et al. Missouri Denied IFP declaratory-judgment due-process fiduciary-control fourteenth-amendment judicial-inaction state-court Whether a state court may constitutionally refuse to act on a properly filed Petition for Declaratory Judgment regarding private trusts and fiduciary …
25-5196 Antwon Manning v. Karl R. Bradford, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
25-5197 Antwon Manning v. Ryan A. Kilduff Seventh Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
25-5198 Corey Lee Butts v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-5200 Isaias Lopez Nunez v. Martin Gamboa, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit procedural-default sentencing Whether the California courts' and Ninth Circuit's rejection of an Ex Post Facto Clause claim violates clearly established U.S. Supreme Court preceden…
25-5201 Brant A. Green v. Hector Rios, Warden Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-5203 Rhonda Denise Taylor v. Officer Fred Baskett Fifth Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
25-5204 Mario Onesimo Gonzalez v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure drug-evidence expert-testimony hearsay sixth-amendment Whether a drug value 'expert' contravenes the Confrontation Clause and Smith v. Arizona when her testimony about the value of drugs seized rests on th…
25-5205 Jesus Garcia, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-statistics sentencing-commission sentencing-disparity statutory-interpretation Whether the detailed Judiciary Sentencing Information (JSIN) statistics compiled by the United States Sentencing Commission are relevant to considerin…
25-5206 Ngozika J. Nwaneri v. George Washington University Hospital District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract due-process eeoc-rights equitable-tolling pro-se-litigant statute-of-limitations Whether the Court of Appeals erred in dismissing Petitioner's claims as untimely and denying equitable tolling despite ongoing internal adjudication a…
25-5207 Jessica Salazar v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct religious-freedom What place, if any, does an individual's religious belief have in a criminal case?
25-5208 Jessie Bullock v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-statute felony-conviction firearm-prohibition second-amendment self-defense Whether a lifetime firearm prohibition under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment for individuals with decades-old felony convictions s…
25-5209 Andrea Nicole Weetly v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California Denied IFP child-support due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-delay modification-motions procedural-compliance Whether a state court's prolonged failure to rule on timely filed child support modification and enforcement motions violates due process under the Fo…
25-5210 Lisa Marie Perez, fka Lisa Marie Belyew v. Lavelle Parker, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-competence criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance mental-coercion plea-bargaining Whether a defendant must show that counsel was competent to take a plea without mental coercion
25-5211 Kareem Muhammad v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals defendant-expectations four-corners judicial-review plea-agreement plea-bargaining Whether construction of a plea agreement's terms is limited to review of the agreement's language and cannot take into consideration circumstances out…
25-5212 Jacquel O'Neal v. Texas Texas Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure effective-assistance jury-instruction sixth-amendment statutory-defense Does the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of effective assistance of counsel require an attorney to request a jury instruction on the sole statutory defens…
25-5213 Cimeon Dion Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility constitutional-principles criminal-procedure mental-illness post-plea-misconduct sentencing-guidelines Whether a district court may deny a reduction for acceptance of responsibility under USSG § 3E1.1 based solely on uncorroborated allegations of post p…
25-5215 Otoniel Cornejo v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-inference evidentiary-standard firearm-ability force-application legal-sufficiency substantial-evidence Does the record lack substantial evidence to support an inference that petitioner had the present ability to apply force with a firearm when that fire…
25-5216 Ricardo L. Noble v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion counsel discretion drug-addiction ineffective-assistance legal-representation Did the court abuse discretion by not addressing ineffective assistance of counsel claims against attorney Barbato and by failing to find his drug add…
25-5217 William R. Jackson v. Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-safeguards due-process extradition-clause illegal-confinement state-proceedings warrant-requirements Whether the Extradition Clause and UCEA procedural safeguards protect an individual from extradition by a private company without proper state proceed…
25-5218 Michael Anthony LoRusso v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-5219 Mao Hin v. California California Denied IFP capital-sentencing constitutional-rights death-penalty jury-unanimity reasonable-doubt sentencing-procedure Whether California's capital-sentencing scheme violates the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments because it fails to require the jury to fi…
25-5221 Anna Gristina v. Juan Merchan, former New York State Judge, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-claims federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman state-court-proceedings younger-abstention Whether the Younger abstention doctrine requires federal court abstention from state court civil proceedings seeking criminal case transcripts, and wh…
25-5222 Dahryl Lamont Reynolds v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-rehabilitation felony-association liberty-deprivation probation-restrictions sentencing-conditions supervised-release Whether the standard condition banning association with all past felons is 'reasonably related' to the goals of deterrence, incapacitation, and rehabi…
25-5223 Burte Gucci Rhodes v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction interstate-commerce jury-instruction legal-sufficiency murder-for-hire procedural-error Whether a conviction for murder-for-hire can properly be affirmed when the jury was instructed that it need not conclude an interstate facility was us…
25-5224 Kelechi Collins Umeh v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction defendant-rights jury-trial structural-error trial-court waiver Is it structural error for a trial court to enter a conviction against a defendant who did not expressly waive his right to a jury trial?
25-5225 Manuel Vega v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure multiple-violations prison-term sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether a court can impose a cumulative prison sentence for multiple supervised release violations that exceeds the original term of supervised releas…
25-5226 Nashaun Drake v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance criminal-law federal-sentencing prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether courts should determine a controlled substance offense under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) based on the substances controlled at the time of the prior c…
25-5227 Derrick Kellen Mitchell v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court due-process guilty-plea plea-understanding sixth-circuit Should the Court grant certiorari to consider if the Sixth Circuit has improperly deviated from this Court's requirement, grounded in the Due Process …
25-5228 Geber Soto v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-prosecution firearms-regulation legal-standing second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the government's prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(1)(A) violates the Second Amendment on its face and as applied
25-5229 David Loren Waldeck v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-amendment heien-standard judicial-gloss law-enforcement objective-reasonableness statutory-interpretation Whether a reviewing court is permitted to insert a 'judicial gloss' in construing an unambiguous statute when determining the objective reasonableness…
25-5230 Victor Samuel Brito v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-instruction necessity-defense sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments guarantee a criminal defendant the right to have a jury consider and give effect to a necessity defense when th…
25-5231 Joseph-Allen Davis v. OM SRP, LLC Ohio Denied IFP constitutional-violation disciplinary-counsel due-process ex-parte-communication judicial-ethics recusal-standard Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is violated when a state court judge, previously disciplined for ex parte communication, en…
25-5232 Doina Rosu Almazon v. Town of Oyster Bay, New York Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment municipal-action property-rights Did the Town of Oyster Bay's action in demolishing the plaintiff's nearly completed, rebuilt home violate the due process guarantee under the United S…
25-5233 In Re Derrick D. Fields Denied IFP None Question not identified.
25-5234 Cathy E. Butler v. Estate of Dana Grace Butler, Deceased, et al. Florida Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment open-courts probate-administration self-representation Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires meaningful notice, hearing, and written findings before converting probate to formal ad…
25-5235 Carlton Vose v. Peter F. Neronha, Attorney General of Rhode Island First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights federal-review habeas-corpus state-law Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously applied state law and federal habeas corpus standards in reviewing a criminal defendant's const…
25-5236 Robert Annabel, II v. Sherman Campbell, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review fact-finding legal-standard religious-practice substantial-burden summary-judgment Does the Court of Appeals erroneously define what constitutes a substantial burden upon religious practice and did it make erroneous and impermissible…
25-5237 Tenisha Rooney v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-5238 In Re Dennis Griffith Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel fair-trial legal-access Does the denial of access to legal materials and court resources fundamentally violate a criminal defendant's constitutional rights to due process, ef…
25-5239 Robert Largo v. New York New York Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process extrinsic-fraud fourteenth-amendment mandatory-assessment new-york-penal-law victim-surcharge Whether the imposition of New York Penal Law § 60.35, as applied to Petitioner, results in state perpetrating extrinsic fraud and violates due process…
25-5240 Jason Shortridge v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography computer-evidence expert-witness-disclosure government-disclosure sixth-amendment trial-continuance Whether a district court abuses its discretion by continuing a case after the Government's late disclosure of an expert witness, and whether possessio…
25-5242 Christine Ritchie v. Lavin, Cedrone, Graver, Boyd & Disipio, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process life-liberty petition slander Whether respondents' response to the slander of Martha Keen constitutes a violation of the civil right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness o…
25-5244 Kristy Richard v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process evidence-standard judicial-procedure legal-representation pro-se-litigant Question not identified.
25-5247 Michael Rinaldi v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-5248 In Re Quay Phipps Denied IFP article-i-powers congressional-power constitutional-interpretation habeas-corpus subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-amendment Is petitioner entitled to immediate habeas corpus relief due to alleged lack of congressional jurisdiction under Article I, Section 8?
25-5250 Edgardo Antonio Romero-Rosales v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review criminal-law judicial-precedent precedent-overruling statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States
25-5252 Eric David Marrufo v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights evidence-admissibility harmless-error jury-deliberation jury-impartiality rule-606b Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to an impartial jury by failing to instruct the jury about inadmissible testim…
25-5257 Eric Sean Roloson v. Washington Washington Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process involuntary-plea plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-alternative Whether the State's misrepresentation that the victims would support a SSOSA rendered Petitioner's plea involuntary, in violation of the Due Process C…
25-5258 James Joseph Bryant v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split harmless-error-review judicial-precedent statutory-interpretation Whether courts should apply the categorical approach under the Armed Career Criminal Act using the latest or historical judicial interpretation of a s…
25-5263 Marvin Gipson v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St…
25-5264 Craig Alan Sandhaus v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-instruction nondeadly-force sixth-amendment trial-counsel Whether the Petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated when his trial attorneys failed to request a jury instruction on the just…
25-5267 Antonio B. Nascimento-Depina v. Massachusetts Massachusetts Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review confrontation-clause due-process forensic-evidence harmless-error jury-determination Whether a state supreme court's harmless-error analysis violates Sixth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment protections by improperly substituting appel…
25-5269 Michael D. Miller v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals due-process habitual-offender legal-violation sentencing statutory-interpretation Did the Fiesk Digkeict Court of Appeals Violate Ane Petisioner's tight Yo due process of Vaw by Imposing a habitual oe Sentence in violation of& speci…
25-5271 Soleiman Mobarak v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa constitutional-law ex-post-facto presumption-of-innocence subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Actual Innocence Exception applies to non-statutory offenses and whether a void state court judgment triggers AEDPA filing deadlines
25-5273 Jordan Padilla v. New Mexico New Mexico Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether law enforcement officials violated Petitioner's Right to Due Process when they seized his personal tablet device and held it for 19 days due t…
25-5274 Eleuterio Zubia-Melendez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-5275 Kayla Williams v. Pennsylvania State University, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights cross-examination due-process forfeiture-doctrine judicial-recusal Whether the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment requires public universities to allow accused students a meaningful opportunity to cross-examine …
25-5276 David Leroy Earls v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment rule-of-lenity sexual-abuse-statute statutory-interpretation Whether the failure of the Tenth Circuit to apply the rule of lenity to 18 U.S.C. § 2242(2)(A) resulted in an interpretation of ambiguous language in …
25-5277 Oliser Hernandez-Villalobos v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence speedy-trial unlawful-seizure Whether a judge may force an accused to choose between his due process right to exculpatory evidence under Brady v. Maryland or his constitutional rig…
25-5278 Reynaldo Alberto Peña v. Texas Texas Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process confrontation-clause due-process fourteenth-amendment polygraph-evidence sixth-amendment Whether admission of inculpatory statements from a polygraph examination without context violates a defendant's constitutional rights to a fair trial
25-5281 Tony Lamons Gooch, III v. Tennessee Tennessee Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance structural-error When a State court judgment shows counsel of record was ineffective during all three phases of litigation, and a defendant is permanently-barred from …
25-5282 Jackson Daniel Bowers v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial sixth-amendment supervised-release Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial applies to supervised release revocation proceedings
25-5283 Deandre Blackman v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure judicial-discretion revocation-hearing sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether courts may rely on the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(2)(A) factors when determining the length and conditions of additional supervision following a supe…
25-5284 Bobbie Ray Edwards v. Milton Graham, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus jones-v-hendrix subject-matter-jurisdiction vi-amendment Whether Petitioner's due process claim can be denied under 28 U.S.C. 2241 for lack of subject matter jurisdiction pursuant to Jones v. Hendrix
25-5289 Michael Oliver v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP federal-court interstate-comity jurisdictional-challenge legal-recognition nation-state sovereign-immunity Whether the Black Hebrew Nation State can be recognized as a sovereign entity for jurisdictional purposes in federal court
25-5293 Tyrone Mock v. Bryant Palmer, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-5294 Maria Navarro Martin v. Florida Eleventh Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court due-process jurisdictional-challenge notice-of-judgment procedural-error Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals denied procedural due process by considering issues beyond the scope of appeal and failing to provide pr…
25-5297 Christopher Jerome Ellis v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender controlled-substance federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation Whether the term 'controlled substance' in the career offender guideline refers exclusively to substances listed in the federal Controlled Substances …
25-5299 Alfred Lamar Shavers v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process felony-prohibition firearm-possession second-amendment Whether the crime of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon passes constitutional muster under the Second Amendment where there is a blanket pro…
25-53 Brittany Valencia Martin v. South Carolina South Carolina Denied Response Waived appellate-review constitutional-law first-amendment independent-review preservation-rule state-courts May state appellate courts refuse to conduct independent First Amendment review based on state-specific appellate practices, or does the independent r…
25-5301 Mario Leequan Thorne v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,…
25-5302 Cameron Edwards v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause criminal-prosecution firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the government's prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment and the Commerce Clause
25-5303 Jae Michael Bernard v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP firearm-prohibition gun-rights historical-tradition misdemeanor-conviction second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether a permanent lifetime prohibition for a misdemeanor conviction under 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(9) is consistent with the Second Amendment's historical …
25-5305 Victor Mondelli v. Berkeley Heights Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure-rule-17 district-court-dismissal guardian-ad-litem improper-discovery mental-health-competency Can a District Court dismiss a plaintiff's case by demanding improper discovery from him in connection with a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 17 inqui…
25-5306 In Re Alexander Kawleski Denied IFP aggregate-effects commerce-clause constitutional-limits fair-notice federal-prosecution interstate-commerce Does the 'Aggregate Effects' doctrine under Gonzales v Raich expand federal prosecution powers beyond the original constitutional limits of the Commer…
25-5311 Winston Sylvester Oliver, II v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights de-novo-review fifth-amendment sixth-amendment witness-testimony Whether a District Court's decision allowing a witness called by a criminal defendant to refuse to testimony based on his claimed Fifth Amendment priv…
25-5312 Roy Lee Jones, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-5318 Deago Lee Eddings v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP as-applied-challenge constitutional-interpretation felon-possession firearm-restriction historical-tradition second-amendment Whether courts should analyze as-applied Second Amendment challenges to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) by examining historical tradition for permanently disarm…
25-5319 Timothy L. Elliott v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St…
25-5322 Derrick Lloyd v. Robert Morton Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process ineffective-assistance race-testimony strickland-standard witness-impeachment Whether the district court erroneously overlooked petitioner's ineffective assistance of counsel claim and whether the injection of race-related testi…
25-5328 Ayana Saunders v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constructive-amendment indictment sixth-circuit trial-procedure variance venue Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the proof at trial did not result in a Constructive Amendment or Variance from the In…
25-5329 Duane Gary Underwood, II v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure motion-to-suppress other-acts-evidence reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure voir-dire Whether the court erred in denying the motion to suppress evidence obtained during a detention without reasonable suspicion and whether the court impr…
25-5332 Francisco Melgar Cabrera v. Christian Lepe, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure-act detention-review extradition-treaty federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation Whether extradition treaty violations are cognizable under 28 USC §2241(c)(3) and may be challenged at any time regardless of AEDPA restrictions
25-5333 Mark William Sain v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act fifth-amendment harmless-error plea-proceeding sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment When harmless-error review of Erlinger error requires consideration by appellate judges of facts neither intrinsic to nor relevant to the finding of g…
25-5334 Billy Joe Russell v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law modified-categorical-approach prior-conviction statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant challenging a prior state conviction under the categorical or modified categorical approaches must produce actual state court deci…
25-5336 Terrell McCoy v. Stephen Duncan, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment constitutional-rights counsel criminal-procedure due-process evidence Question not identified.
25-5337 Kalen Aniji Gatlin v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-5339 David Keith Nutter v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law firearm-regulation historical-analogues misdemeanor-conviction second-amendment Whether a federal statute permanently disarming individuals with certain misdemeanor convictions violates the Second Amendment under the historical an…
25-5341 Kenneth Jeremy Laird v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing sentencing-discretion supreme-court-precedent Does the revised sentence violate the Eighth Amendment?
25-5342 Raymond Arthur Verrill v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standard Whether appellate courts should accept sentencing judges' routine assertions that they would have imposed the same sentence despite Sentencing Guideli…
25-5344 Elliot Maurice Browning v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure harmless-error jury-determination sentencing-enhancement Does the Court's Erlinger decision require a jury to pass on the three separate occasions factor in the Armed Criminal Convictions Act (ACCA), and if …
25-5345 Arturo Navarro-Zuniga v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confession-admissibility criminal-procedure law-review miranda-warning objective-effectiveness subjective-intent When determining whether a confession made following a midstream Miranda warning is admissible, do courts consider the warning's objective effectivene…
25-5351 Roberta A. Lee v. Department of the Army Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights employment-discrimination equal-protection first-amendment merit-system-protection-board wrongful-termination Whether the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the First Amendment allow federal employees equal protection and accountability for wrongful termination
25-5352 Antonio Robledo Tovar v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-authority federal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment Whether a federal law banning firearm possession by individuals with prior felony convictions is consistent with the Second Amendment and Congress's c…
25-5361 Rita Arguijo Garcia v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appeals-council due-process equal-protection filing-date social-security Whether Social Security regulations that permit a claimant to submit new evidence to the Appeals Council and receive a protective filing date violate …
25-5362 Nathaniel Blancher v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea ineffective-assistance plea-agreement Whether a guilty plea becomes knowing, intelligent, and voluntary when the plea agreement inaccurately describes the penalty provision of the statute …
25-5363 Edras Reyes-Salinas v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-appeal fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
25-5365 Omar Alonso Pazos-Montes v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process felony-conviction immigration-law jury-trial sentencing-enhancement Whether the existence of a pre-removal felony conviction under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b) is an element of an enhanced offense that must be proven to a jury b…
25-5368 Shonteria Story v. Grady C. Judd, Sheriff, Polk County, Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-5371 Douglas Manning v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey Third Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights correctional-facility cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment prisoner-treatment Whether the petitioner's allegations of unredacted beating by staff at a correctional facility raise a viable constitutional issue under the Eighth Am…
25-5373 In Re Markus Odon McCormick Denied Response WaivedIFP case-dismissal court-ruling judicial-discretion legal-procedure motion-reconsideration pro-se Whether the district court abused its discretion in denying petitioner's pro se motion for reconsideration of the court's dismissal of his case
25-5375 Arturs Spila v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent eleventh-circuit evidence-standard felony-proceeds money-laundering statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(1)(B)(i) requires proof of knowledge that proceeds originated from a specific felony crime
25-5377 Vincent Deritis v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP child-exploitation criminal-law minor-protection sexually-explicit-conduct video-voyeurism visual-depiction Does a video voyeur produce visual depictions of a minor engaged in 'sexually explicit conduct' when he records images showing the minor engaged in on…
25-5378 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Mark H. Slimak Florida Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment procedural-rights stalking-injunction Did the trial court commit reversible error in dismissing the petition for an injunction to prevent stalking, and did the court violate procedural due…
25-5381 Shameika Johnson v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-821 criminal-law judicial-discretion retroactive-application sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines Whether the lower courts erred by refusing to grant Ms. Johnson a sentence reduction under retroactively applicable Amendment 821 – Part A to the Unit…
25-5387 Robert Narvett v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement rule-11-hearing Did the Appeals Court err by accepting a plea agreement without definitive proof that the Movant understood his appeal waiver rights during the Rule 1…
25-5390 Brandon Desmond Medford v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion federal-procedure judicial-interpretation policy-disagreement sentencing-guidelines Whether district courts must ever consider arguments for a lesser sentence based on a policy disagreement with the Guidelines?
25-5391 Jose Guadalupe Marquez-Floriano v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-appeal fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
25-5392 Nelson Mickens, Jr. v. William Danforth Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-5399 Neda Mehrabani v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights discovery-violation fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance medicare-billing sentencing Whether a Certificate of Appealability (COA) should have been issued due to ineffective assistance of counsel and denial of constitutional rights rela…
25-54 David Lynn Richards, Jr. v. Tennessee Tennessee Denied Response Waived adoption criminal-procedure due-process ministerial-status sexual-abuse wrongful-conviction Whether a business owner and minister wrongfully convicted of sexually abusing an adopted child can challenge his conviction based on claims of innoce…
25-5403 In Re Michael Jay Harris Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a subsequent habeas petition raising claims of prosecutorial misconduct and actual innocence should be permitted to proceed despite procedural…
25-5404 Darren Smith v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure mitigation-arguments official-victim-enhancement procedural-error sentencing-guidelines Whether a district court commits procedural error when imposing a within-Guidelines sentence without addressing a defendant's mitigation arguments or …
25-5405 Lamont Coleman v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-acquittal sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted …
25-5406 Malgum Whiteside, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant Whether the district court improperly denied suppression of evidence and whether the appellate court improperly affirmed the district court's denial b…
25-5407 Brandon Keith Thompson v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-authority criminal-possession federal-jurisdiction interstate-movement statutory-interpretation Does Congress have authority under the Commerce Clause to criminally punish the simple possession of an object that moved from one state to another at…
25-5408 Julio Aviles, Sr. v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP court-review judicial-discretion legal-error miscarriage-of-justice procedural-standard statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court's erroneous view of law amounted to a miscarriage of justice that warrants Supreme Court review
25-5409 Stanislav Arbit v. Schneider Electric SE Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split digital-age jurisdictional-standard personal-jurisdiction procedural-hearing website-targeting Whether an entity that purposefully and continuously operates a website serving residents of a forum thereby 'expressly aim' at the forum for purposes…
25-5410 Kyle Syphax v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split judicial-ambiguity penal-provision plain-text rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation When Circuits split over a penal provision's meaning, with each side believing that its competing, rational interpretation is compelled by the provisi…
25-5411 Admilson Pires v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-5413 Raymond Ronald Jennings v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-amendment good-faith-exception informant-credibility probable-cause reckless-disregard search-warrant Did the officer omit from his probable cause affidavit information concerning the two informant's credibility that could infer reckless disregard for …
25-5414 Anthony Tyrone Campbell, Sr. v. Andre Gonzales, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-murder constitutional-errors due-process habeas-corpus liberty-rights ninth-circuit Whether the Supreme Court can review Constitutional errors abroad involving due process and liberty rights, whether a California citizen can be convic…
25-5416 Meliton Olvera-Gamez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-5418 In Re Kai Uwe Thier Denied IFP consular-relations deportation habeas-corpus incriminating-statement international-treaty vienna-convention Whether a German citizen subject to immediate deportation is entitled to discharge or a new trial based on a violation of the Vienna Convention on Con…
25-5419 Anthony Steven Wright v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-5420 Perry Jaquan Jackson v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-test constitutional-scrutiny felony-ban firearm-possession historical-tradition second-amendment Whether the lifetime ban on firearm possession for all felons under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment after New Yor…
25-5423 Davonta Dashune Turner v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-law facial-challenge gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) facially violates the Second Amendment
25-5425 Keith Lamar Foster v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process interrogation-tactics police-misrepresentation self-incrimination statement-voluntariness suspect-status Where a police officer misrepresents the fundamental nature of an individual's interaction with police by lying about his status as a suspect, does th…
25-5427 Rufus E. Dennis v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP base-offense-level criminal-procedure district-court hobbs-act sentencing-guidelines upward-variance Did the Defendant 'possess' a handgun for the purposes of the sentencing court assessing a 5 point level increase to his base offense level, pursuant …
25-5429 Anthony Brian Walker v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-defense criminal-procedure jury-instructions self-defense sua-sponte substantial-evidence In a criminal prosecution, when an affirmative defense such as imperfect self-defense is supported by substantial evidence, does the trial court have …
25-5430 Ravon Lovowe Ramsey v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment expert-testimony jury-trial medical-malpractice Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred in denying the plaintiff's motion for a new trial based on alleged Eighth Amendment rights violations…
25-5431 Jason Cornell Matlock v. Indiana Indiana Denied Response WaivedIFP drug-investigation fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-inference search-warrant surveillance Whether a brief, unverified proximity of a drug dealer to a citizen's residence, without any observed interaction, constitutes sufficient probable cau…
25-5435 Antuan L. Wynn v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence-standard Whether charging a single conspiracy with proof of a chain of distribution relationships, and without proof that a defendant agreed to join the broade…
25-5444 Steven Wilson v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure dismissed-charges district-court judicial-review sentencing-colloquy third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit erred in determining that the sentencing colloquy of the district court did not unambiguously show the district court consid…
25-5446 Javier Perez v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bodily-injury criminal-procedure enhancement-standard judicial-discretion legal-interpretation sentencing-guidelines Whether application of the four-level sentencing enhancement for 'permanent or life-threatening bodily injury' under U.S.S.G. § 2A2.1(b)(1)(A) require…
25-5449 John Todd Williams v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP article-three due-process judicial-designation jurisdictional-defect separation-of-powers structural-error Whether a federal judge elevated to an appellate court can lawfully preside over district court proceedings without proper statutory designation
25-5452 In Re Andrew James Johnston Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-privilege filing-restrictions habeas-corpus merits-determination section-2255 Is petitioner entitled to immediate relief, including issuance of a writ of habeas corpus from this Court, to protect the privilege of habeas corpus a…
25-5460 Joseph Thompson, Sr. v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP common-law federal-prosecution homicide self-defense stand-ground violent-felony Whether the right to self-defense in a federal homicide prosecution includes the common law right to stand one's ground and to defend against a violen…
25-5462 Deandre Wilson v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-courts constitutional-rights criminal-defendants due-process evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence Are the divided federal appellate courts applying too stringent a standard when evaluating the admissibility of evidence under Federal Rule of Evidenc…
25-5465 David Nicholson v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constructive-possession controlled-substance criminal-procedure dominion-and-control intent-to-distribute post-offense-admission Whether a conviction under 21 U.S.C. § 841 for possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance can be sustained based solely on constructi…
25-5466 Claudia C. Hoerig v. Shannon Olds, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-rule-29 due-process habeas-corpus jackson-virginia negative-defense sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a Petitioner claiming insufficiency of evidence under Jackson v. Virginia can raise a legitimate constitutional claim through a Criminal Rule-…
25-5468 Robert A. Moylan v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP confidential-communications criminal-investigation fourth-amendment overbroad-seizure patient-privacy search-warrant Whether a search warrant authorizing seizure of a substance abuse counselor's entire patient files and confidential communications without in camera r…
25-5471 Jakari Alexander Lee v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St…
25-5472 Lars St. John v. Officer Cornell Grimes, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-5475 In Re George Daniel Luster, Jr. Denied IFP None Question not identified.
25-5490 Travis Broeker v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-review criminal-procedure drug-liability judicial-review Whether the Certificate of Appealability process, as currently implemented, provides meaningful judicial review under 28 U.S.C. §2253 and Miller El v.…
25-5493 Joshua Devon Barrow v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law first-step-act revocation sentencing statutory-maximum supervised-release When determining the statutory maximum sentence on revocation, should courts consult current law or only the law at the time of the underlying offense…
25-5495 Perteacher Drone v. Robert J. Conrad, Director, Administrative Office of the United States Courts, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional-interpretation due-process employment-rights judicial-accountability procedural-fairness Whether the Supreme Court should provide counsel for an indigent plaintiff and hold the judiciary accountable for potential due process violations in …
25-55 Kevin Cichowski, et al. v. Discover Bank Eleventh Circuit Denied legal-notice mail-presumption mail-tracking postal-delivery procedural-presumption service-of-process Is the presumption of three-day mail receipt still valid given changes in the postal system?
25-5500 Clarence C. Roland, III v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-admission fair-trial separate-sovereigns Whether eliciting details of a prior state court conviction and a co-conspirator's conviction in a federal trial violates a criminal defendant's due p…
25-5506 Carlos Daniel Canario-Vilomar v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP congressional-power define-and-punish-clause extraterritorial-jurisdiction high-seas-enforcement international-law maritime-drug-law Are Congress's powers under the Define and Punish Clause inherently limited by international law, and does the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act excee…
25-5511 Matthew Thomas Parkins, By and Through His Guardian ad Litem and Next Friend, Cecil Matt Parkins, et al. v. Henry Dargan McMaster, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process family-rights fourteenth-amendment intellectually-disabled section-1983 state-removal Whether the state's removal of an intellectually disabled adult from his home and family by application of a standard of proof lower than the preponde…
25-5543 Altony Brooks v. Sergeant Sheila Johnston, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-56 Qinghua Zhang, et al. v. Federal Home Loan Bank of Topeka Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived admissibility circuit-split compromise-offers federal-rules-of-evidence settlement-negotiations severance-agreements Does inadmissibility of F.R.E. 408 apply to severance agreements when no claims exist?
25-5600 In Re Lonnie W. Hubbard Denied IFP appellate-review controlled-substances criminal-law federal-indictment jury-instructions mens-rea Whether the jury instructions adequately informed the jury of the 'knowingly or intentionally' mens rea for 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) counts as interprete…
25-58 Andrew Findlay v. Geoquip, Inc. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-exhaustion employment-discrimination limitations-period res-judicata retaliation title-vii Does the doctrine of res judicata bar a Title VII retaliation claim based on post-employment conduct when the prior lawsuit addressed only pre-termina…
25-59 Joseph Very Sherman, Individually, and as Biological Father, Next Friend, and Natural Guardian of H. M. S., J. C. S., and M. R. S., Minor Children, et al. v. Louis R. Lerner, former Judge, Circuit Court of Virginia, City of Norfolk Virginia Denied child-custody due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment liberty-interests parental-rights Do the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments require pre-deprivation due process before a court enters a child custody order that infringes fundamental libe…
25-60 James Greiner v. Democratic National Committee, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived congressional-voting constitutional-rights political-representation punitive-damages separation-of-powers two-party-system Whether the two-party political system constitutes a constitutional violation of separation of powers and representation rights, and if punitive damag…
25-61 Mark Murphy and Jennifer Murphy v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Amici (3)Response Waived circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-law drug-conspiracy jury-instructions statutory-interpretation Whether, in a § 846 prosecution for conspiracy to violate § 841, a trial court errs if it fails to correctly instruct the jury on the elements of the …
25-65 Royal Suites Health Care & Rehabilitation, et al. v. Joseph S. Ingemi, Jr. New Jersey Denied Response Waived discovery-rules healthcare-litigation hipaa-privacy individually-identifiable-information medical-records patient-confidentiality Whether the patient privacy provisions of HIPAA protect against discovery of 'individually identifiable health information' of non-parties in a neglig…
25-66 Alliance Marc & Eva Stern Math & Science High School, et al. v. Public Employment Relations Board, et al. California Denied Response Waived administrative-law first-amendment free-speech government-speech public-employers union-membership Whether the government-speech doctrine allows states to categorically prohibit public employer agents and employees from sharing disfavored views cons…
25-67 Abhijit Bagal v. Kshama Sawant, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge federal-court injury-in-fact judicial-review legal-standing standing What constitutes a cognizable injury to establish standing in a federal court to challenge an unconstitutional law?
25-68 James Thomas Ballard, Individually and as Trustee of the James T. Ballard Millennium Trust, dated January 9, 2002 v. City of West Hollywood, California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived amendment-standard covid-19-restrictions due-process municipal-regulation property-rights takings-clause Whether a municipality may transform temporary emergency rent restrictions and occupancy mandates adopted at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic into p…
25-69 Shan Shan Su v. Broward County, Florida Eleventh Circuit Denied appellate-review circuit-court due-process equal-protection legal-precedent motion-to-dismiss Whether the Eleventh Circuit's claim of forfeited appellate rights and refusal to conduct de novo review violated due process and equal protection, cr…
25-7 Dawn Keefer, et al. v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing constitutional-duty elections-clause federal-elections legislative-authority state-officials Whether individual legislators have Article III standing to sue state and federal executive officials for altering the manner of federal elections in …
25-70 William Kelly v. Graphic Packaging International, LLC Sixth Circuit Denied americans-with-disabilities-act compensatory-damages jury-trial punitive-damages retaliation seventh-amendment Whether the Seventh Amendment and 42 U.S.C. § 1981a(c)(1) guarantee a jury trial when a plaintiff seeks compensatory or punitive damages for retaliati…
25-74 Sullivan Equity Partners, LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company v. City of Los Angeles, California Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 administrative-law due-process england-reservation pullman-abstention takings-clause Whether a property owner can pursue a 42 USC §1983 claim and constitutional takings claim in federal court after state court proceedings involving all…
25-75 Crocs, Inc. v. Double Diamond Distribution, Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit Denied Amici (1) commercial-advertising intangible-properties lanham-act misrepresentation patent-status trademark-law Whether the Lanham Act's prohibition on misrepresentations as to 'nature, characteristics, [or] qualities' extends to misrepresentations about the pro…
25-78 Patrick D. Lands v. City of Raleigh, North Carolina Fourth Circuit Denied circuit-split excusable-neglect fmla-leave good-cause notice-of-appeal pioneer-factors Whether the First, Second, Fourth, Eighth, and Tenth Courts of Appeal have misinterpreted Pioneer Inv. Servs. Co. v. Brunswick Assocs. Ltd. P'ship reg…
25-80 Studco Building Systems US, LLC v. 1st Advantage Federal Credit Union Fourth Circuit Denied actual-knowledge due-diligence financial-institution fund-transfer privity ucc-article-4a Whether 'know' in UCC § 4A-207 imposes a due diligence standard or requires actual knowledge, and whether UCC § 4A-207 allows a defrauded party to fil…
25-82 Malcolm Wade Pipes v. United States Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure disability-retirement inactive-duty-training military-law military-reservist statutory-interpretation Whether a military reservist on ordered remedial fitness training without pay and points, who suffered injury, was on inactive duty training status wi…
25-84 Owolabi Salis v. Jorge Dopico, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process separation-of-powers state-immunity Whether state officials can claim immunity for egregious violations of federal civil rights and constitutional protections
25-85 Alireza Bakhtiari v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived actual-innocence circuit-split coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process habeas-waiver Whether a district court has discretionary authority to grant or withhold fundamental due process rights in criminal proceedings
25-86 Ashok Arora v. Midland Credit Management, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived business-records circuit-split declarant-testimony federal-rules-evidence hearsay-exception summary-judgment Whether the district court erred in accepting hearsay declarations under FRE 803(6) and 803(7) without producing underlying business records
25-87 Kevin F. MacDonald v. JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. Massachusetts Denied Response Waived due-process estate-law foreclosure pro-se-litigation property-rights standing Whether a pro se beneficiary and co-representative of an estate has standing to prevent wrongful foreclosure when emergency action is necessary and co…
25-9 Keith M. Wilkins v. Steve Herron, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response Waived emergency-use-authorization experimental-drugs food-drug-cosmetic-act informed-consent private-right-of-action section-1983 Whether an individual can bring a private right of action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violation of informed consent rights related to Emergency Use Aut…
25-90 Mark S. Scott v. United States, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-review constitutional-due-process government-misconduct judicial-review legal-standard perjured-testimony Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit applied the wrong standard to the admission of perjured testimony that the governmen…
25-92 Isaac Mulamba v. Board of Education of Baltimore County Maryland Denied civil-rights federal-rules forum-selection pleading-standards supremacy-clause title-vii Whether a state court's application of heightened pleading standards to federal Title VII claims, beyond those required under Federal Rule of Civil Pr…
25-93 Ang Jin v. Chen Zhao, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Yetao Jin Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived distribution-law due-process equal-protection fiduciary-liability restatement-second special-representative Whether the court judgment could circumvent appellants' most important argument regarding Restatement 2nd, Special representative's fiduciary liabilit…
25-95 Michael Pung, Personal Representative of the Estate of Timothy Scott Pung v. Isabella County, Michigan Sixth Circuit Granted Amici (26) excessive-fine fair-market-value fifth-amendment government-seizure property-rights takings-clause Whether taking and selling a home to satisfy a debt to the government, and keeping the surplus value as a windfall, violates the Takings Clause of the…
25-96 Maryville Baptist Church, et al. v. Andy Beshear, Governor of Kentucky Sixth Circuit Denied attorney-fees due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-precedent retroactive-application vested-rights Whether retroactive application of a judicial decision changing legal precedent violates the Due Process Clause when it deprives a party of vested rig…
25-97 Susan M. Smith v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process judicial-immunity section-1983 Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's frivolous docket notice and whether a good faith defense shields defendants from dam…
25-98 Peter Gumm v. AK Steel Corporation Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights mcdonnell-douglas seventh-amendment statute-of-limitations summary-judgment title-seven Whether a federal district court errs in granting summary judgment based on improper application of McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green and misapplicatio…
25-99 William Thomas Hudson, III v. Michael Meisner, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived ineffective-assistance investigation-deficiency prejudice-standard right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-test Whether a court evaluating an ineffective assistance of counsel claim may rely on the testimony of counsel who has failed to conduct an adequate inves…
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