Conference: 2025-10-10

134 cases — 1 granted, 127 denied/dismissed, 6 pending

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Case Title Lower Court Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-1063 Munson P. Hunter, III v. United States Fifth Circuit Granted Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appeal-waiver appellate-procedure circuit-split constitutional-challenge ineffective-assistance sentencing-rights Whether the only permissible exceptions to a general appeal waiver are for claims of ineffective assistance of counsel or that the sentence exceeds th…
24-1084 Steven M. Hohn v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Amici (7) attorney-client-privilege constitutional-rights legal-prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-procedure Whether a prosecutor's intentional, unjustified intrusion into a defendant's attorney-client communications violates the Sixth Amendment without a sho…
24-1173 Evans Hotels, LLC, et al. v. Unite Here! Local 30, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split first-amendment labor-law noerr-pennington section-8b4 sham-petitioning Did the Ninth Circuit err in holding that the First Amendment and the Noerr-Pennington doctrine protect the unions' actions despite those actions viol…
24-1180 Corrine Morgan Thomas, et al. v. Humboldt County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights common-law fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine jury-trial seventh-amendment Whether the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial in suits at common law is incorporated against the States by the Fourteenth Amendment.
24-1189 California Stem Cell Treatment Center, Inc., a California Corporation, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (3)Response WaivedRelisted (2) drug-classification enforcement-action fda-regulation medical-law stem-cells surgical-procedure Whether stem cells used in surgical procedures are 'drugs' subject to FDA regulation under the FDCA and whether the FDA had a lawful basis for its enf…
24-1202 John Doe v. Grindr Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) algorithmic-recommendation communications-decency-act minor-protection platform-liability product-design section-230 Whether Section 230(c)(1) of the Communications Decency Act immunizes apps from liability for defective product design and insufficient warnings when …
24-1207 Angela Schuncey Richardson v. Krystle Reed Duncan, Corporal Eighth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split coercion eighth-amendment prison-official-liability prisoner-rights sexual-misconduct Whether a prisoner challenging a prison official's sexual misconduct must plead that the prisoner's participation was coerced in order to state a clai…
24-1262 RDFS, LLC v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law agency-authority certificate-issuance judicial-review natural-gas-act statutory-interpretation Whether a court of appeals may defer to FERC on the threshold question of FERC's authority to issue blanket certificates without determining the legal…
24-1287 Learning Resources, Inc., et al. v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. District of Columbia Pending Amici (12)Relisted (2) congressional-authority economic-regulation executive-power international-emergency-economic-powers-act tariff-policy trade-law Whether IEEPA authorizes the President to impose tariffs
24-1328 United States v. Keshon Daveon Baxter Eighth Circuit Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-use firearms-possession second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), which prohibits firearm possession by unlawful drug users, violates the Second Amendment
24-6496 In Re Maestro M. Faison, aka Maestro Matthew Faison Denied Relisted (2)IFP collateral-review constitutional-rule eleventh-circuit federal-procedure habeas-corpus supreme-court-retroactivity Whether the Supreme Court's Erlinger decision is retroactively applicable to cases on collateral review under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 or § 2255
24-6543 Devin Chaney v. United States Fifth Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement sentencing-error Can a criminal defendant knowingly and voluntarily waive the right to appeal a district court's yet-to-be-made errors as part of a plea agreement, and…
24-6629 George Cleveland, III, et al. v. South Carolina Department of Social Services South Carolina Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP None
24-6832 Michael Lavern Boyd v. Lay, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP None Question not identified.
24-7003 Hale R. Harris v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sixth-amendment Does a finding of ineffective assistance of counsel require a remedy to the constitutional violation?
24-7047 In Re Sefe A. Almedom Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-law court-jurisdiction judicial-authority legal-fraud state-supreme-court statutory-interpretation Whether the Ohio Supreme Court has greater authority than the U.S. Supreme Court in interpreting constitutional statutes and state laws
24-7189 Hannah Hekel v. Hunter Warfield, Inc. Eighth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-iii-standing circuit-split common-law-harm emotional-injury fdcpa-claims injury-in-fact Whether the Eighth Circuit's approach to Article III standing for emotional injuries is consistent with the case-by-case analysis in Spokeo and TransU…
24-7208 Cornell Slater v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-interpretation judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether the Court of Appeals improperly allowed district courts to nullify sentencing guidelines through inoculating statements that latent errors wou…
24-7240 Luis Fernandez v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP crime-of-violence elements-clause habeas-corpus judicial-review residual-clause section-2255 Are federal courts precluded from granting a federal prisoner's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to vacate an illegal conviction in light of Davis where the re…
24-7302 Sterling Atkins, Jr. v. Jeremy Bean, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance strickland-standard trial-counsel Can a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel be denied on the basis of an alleged failure to show what trial counsel did rather than what they fai…
24-7346 Seaga Edward Gillard v. North Carolina North Carolina Denied IFP capital-punishment criminal-sentencing death-penalty felony-murder jury-instructions supreme-court-precedent Whether the Supreme Court of North Carolina violated Supreme Court precedent regarding jury instructions for death sentences in felony murder cases in…
24-826 Stacey Ian Humphreys v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied Relisted (8) aedpa cause-and-prejudice federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default Whether a federal court must apply the deferential review provisions of AEDPA to the state court's adjudication of an ineffective assistance of counse…
24-923 Save Jobs USA v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. District of Columbia Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) None Question not identified.
24-965 Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Shirley Weber, California Secretary of State Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split election-law first-amendment free-speech misinformation retaliation Did the Ninth Circuit undermine free speech protections when it found that a retaliatory action is independent from an action that could chill a perso…
24-985 Ohio v. Garry Smith Ohio Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process emergency-doctrine hearsay-exception testimonial-statements Whether statements made to responding officers during emergency medical care are nontestimonial under the Confrontation Clause when lacking investigat…
24-999 Premier Nutrition Corporation, fka Joint Juice, Inc. v. Mary Beth Montera, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Ninth Circuit Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-review circuit-court federal-certification federalism judicial-procedure state-law Whether a federal court must consider federalism interests when asked to certify important and unresolved questions of state law, and whether the Nint…
25-113 Breanna Renteria, et al. v. New Mexico Office of the Superintendent of Insurance, et al. Tenth Circuit Pending CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) employment-division-v-smith first-amendment health-care-sharing-ministry preemption religious-exercise strict-scrutiny Petitioners Breanna Renteria and Laura Smith joined a ministry with fellow Christian believers to share healthcare costs. Petitioners' religious belie…
25-116 Nicholas Roddy Ramlow v. Amanda Marie Mitchell Idaho Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure constitutional-rights first-amendment mootness pandemic-law public-health 1. Whether mask-wearing is symbolic or expressive speech. 2. Whether Petitioner's appeal is moot. 3. Given the cyclical nature of pandemics, the exi…
25-119 Highland Capital Management, L.P. v. NexPoint Advisors, L.P., et al. Fifth Circuit Pending CVSGAmici (2) bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-process lawsuit-screening legal-gatekeeping liability-exculpation nondebtor-participants 1. Whether a bankruptcy court can act as a gatekeeper to screen noncolorable lawsuits against nondebtor bankruptcy participants. 2. Whether a bankrup…
25-128 Korean Claimants v. Dow Silicones Corporation, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied administrative-notice bankruptcy-procedure claim-denial cross-border-equity due-process settlement-facility This case presents a question that the Closing Orders for Dow Corning breast implant Settlement Facility and its Program, issued by the District Court…
25-131 David C. L. Walton v. Ashley Nehls Seventh Circuit Denied consent constitutional-rights eighth-amendment incarceration prison-official sexual-misconduct Whether the Eighth Amendment, which is interpreted according to "evolving standards of decency," permits a contrary rule that treats an incarcerated p…
25-134 Jannie Robinson Tisdell v. Elizabeth Bryne Hogan, Judge, Circuit Court of Missouri, City of St. Louis, et al. Eighth Circuit Dismissed bankruptcy-jurisdiction core-bankruptcy-estate due-process fraud-debt property-dispute subject-matter-jurisdiction May a State Court have subject matter jurisdiction to hear a case over a property dispute if creditor subsequently filed a core proof of claim in an a…
25-136 Francis Palardy v. AT&T Services Inc., et al. Texas Denied americans-with-disabilities-act defamation disability-discrimination equal-protection supremacy-clause tester-litigation 1. Whether state courts may disregard the Americans with Disabilities Act when adjudicating defamation claims involving disability-related conduct, in…
25-140 Jennine Labuzan-Delane v. Cochran & Cochran Land Company, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied contract-clause discovery-rules federal-procedure land-patent summary-judgment supremacy-clause 1. Whether a district court may grant summary judgment without affording any opportunity for discovery —contrary to Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, 477 U.S.…
25-142 William Gerard Sangervasi, II v. City of San Jose, California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived equal-protection first-amendment government-speech police-uniform sexual-orientation viewpoint-discrimination Our American Flag and The Uniform of America's Police Officers are neutral and impartial visual symbols of blind-justice and equal protection under th…
25-143 Rebecca Hartzell v. Marana Unified School District, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied circuit-split constitutional-education fourteenth-amendment government-employee-liability parental-rights school-choice This Court has held for over a century that the Fourteenth Amendment protects the right of parents to control and direct the education of their childr…
25-147 Michael J. Polelle v. Cord Byrd, Florida Secretary of State, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived closed-primary election-law equal-protection first-amendment political-association voting-rights 1. Does the Petitioner have standing to sue the Florida Secretary of State in his official capacity as chief election officer of the state for any vio…
25-155 Gennady Y. Paremsky v. Ingham County, Michigan, et al. Michigan Denied Response Waived compensation-rights constitutional-violations contract-impairment due-process equal-protection takings-clause I. Did Michigan Ingham County and its officials Greta Wu, Kim Coleman, Bruce Bragg, Leslie M. Shanlian, Jennifer Mack violate U.S. Const. amend. V, XI…
25-167 Alvin Mansour, et al. v. Nevada Department of Business and Industry, Real Estate Division Nevada Denied article-iii-standing circuit-split commercial-real-estate facial-unconstitutionality licensing-restriction occupational-regulation Whether Article III standing to challenge a licensing restriction as facially unconstitutional requires that the challenger first submit to the challe…
25-176 Tristram Heinz v. City of Philadelphia Bureau of Administrative Adjudication Pennsylvania Denied constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment speed-camera 1. Whether Section 3370 of the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Code, 75 Pa.C.S. § 3370, the Automated Speed Camera Enforcement Program, and an implementing…
25-182 Curtis Levar Wells, Jr. v. Javier Fuentes, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights community-caretaker consent-search fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion seizure This case concerns a federal law enforcement officer's initial detention of a civilian with a post-hoc explanation of a "welfare check" or "communit…
25-186 Alejandro Estevis v. Ignacio Cantu, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment police-shooting qualified-immunity use-of-force Whether Officers Ignacio Cantu and Eduardo Guajardo should be denied qualified immunity before trial for shooting six times at Alejandro Estevis while…
25-200 Kevin Salvador Golphin v. North Carolina North Carolina Denied Response Waived constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole sentencing-discretion Whether North Carolina, in conflict with this Court's precedents and those of other states, has violated the Eighth Amendment by creating a de facto m…
25-205 Schuyler E. Cole, et al. v. City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii Hawaii Denied Response Waived constitutional-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment property-valuation tax-assessment tax-classification Whether a real property tax class that consists of certain residential properties that are distinguished from identical residential properties based s…
25-209 Elizabeth Spokoiny v. University of Washington Medical Center Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split collective-bargaining employment-discrimination fmla title-ix title-vii 1. Should sexual discrimination claims under Title VII and Title IX be analyzed under the traditional McDonnell Douglas "but-for " test as the Sixth…
25-212 Anh Tuyet Thai v. Los Angeles County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived ada-accommodation disability-rights due-process federal-immunity fourth-amendment search-and-seizure This Court has long recognized that "to facilitate the orderly and sympathetic administration of the disability program[s] * * *, the Secretary and …
25-242 City of Houston, Texas v. The Commons of Lake Houston, Ltd. Texas Denied Response Waived federal-preemption flood-management local-government-regulations national-flood-insurance-program property-takings texas-constitution Whether federal laws establishing and implementing the NFIP, when operating as intended, conflict with and thus preempt Article I, Section 17 of the T…
25-258 Zante, Inc., dba Marlena's Bistro and Pizzeria v. Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Michigan Denied Response Waived civil-contempt equal-protection fundamental-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause void-ab-initio ISSUE I. ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL LAWS VOID AB INITIO REQUIRING RETROSPECTIVE TREATMENT OF OPINIONS AFFECTING FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS? ISSUE II. DO MICHIGA…
25-263 Cheri Poe v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split erie-doctrine federalism-interests judicial-discretion state-law-certification supplemental-jurisdiction 1. When a federal court considers whether to certify a state law issue to a state high court, what factors, including federalism interests, bear on th…
25-265 Alexander Gallo v. District of Columbia District of Columbia Denied Response Waived contracts-clause eviction-moratorium lucas-test penn-central-test property-rights takings-clause 1. Whether an eviction moratorium is a physical taking or appropriation of property? 2. Whether Petitioner's challenge to the District's eviction mor…
25-268 Alex Emric Jones, et al. v. Erica Lafferty, et al. Connecticut Denied Response Waived administrative-sanction constitutional-review defamation first-amendment media-liability public-figure This case presents multiple constitutional questions of first impression involving the use of a punitive administrative Death Penalty Sanction for sma…
25-275 Clifford James Frost, Jr. v. Dana Nessel, Attorney General of Michigan Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived bad-faith-prosecution constitutional-challenge criminal-prosecution election-law pre-emption younger-abstention Does the "bad faith" exception to Younger preemption require the plaintiff to show that he or she has been subject to multiple criminal prosecutions a…
25-279 Matthew Wood v. New Mexico New Mexico Denied Response Waived criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment felony-murder fourteenth-amendment proportionality Where a defendant is not convicted of the predicate offense, does a conviction for first-degree felony murder comport with due process under the Fourt…
25-291 Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP, et al. v. International Paper Company, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived cercla-statute-of-limitations contribution-action declaratory-judgment environmental-cleanup-costs potentially-responsible-parties superfund-liability 1. Does the theoretical availability of a contribution action under CERCLA § 113(f) foreclose recovery of costs under CERCLA § 107(a), even where all …
25-298 Bi-Qem SA DE CV, et al. v. Trade Links, LLC Second Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-rules docket-notation local-rule order-entry 1. Whether an unsigned and uninitialed document entitled "Courtroom Minutes – Civil," hyperlinked to a "Minute Entry" in the docket constitutes an "…
25-3 Malco Enterprises of Nevada, Inc., a Domestic Corporation v. Alelign Woldeyohannes Nevada Denied Amici (2) financial-responsibility-law graves-amendment preemption rental-car-liability state-statute vicarious-liability Whether a state statute that imposes vicarious liability on rental and leasing companies through a provision governing insurance can evade Graves Amen…
25-304 Kevin J. Koelemij v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights fair-trial judicial-misconduct state-trial-court Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability on his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 claim that he was denied his cons…
25-31 Benjamin Adams v. Lloyd Arnold, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied disciplinary-segregation due-process incarceration liberty-deprivation wilkinson-v-austin wolff-v-mcdonnell The Question Presented is whether incarcerated individuals facing disciplinary segregation that amounts to a deprivation of liberty are entitled the a…
25-41 Jan Peters v. Malia M. Cohen, In Her Official Capacity as Chief Fiscal Officer, State Controller of California, and as Trustee of the Unclaimed Property Fund Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (3)Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment takings-clause unclaimed-property 1. Whether the Controller's actions under color of the California Unclaimed Property Law, Cal. Civ. Proc. Code §§ 1300, et seq. ("UPL"), violate the D…
25-5004 Delano Hale v. Bill Cool, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP capital-murder criminal-defense forensic-evidence ineffective-assistance strategic-decision strickland-standard In a capital murder case focused on the circumstances of the decedent's death, where forensic evidence is known to comprise the State's main evidence,…
25-5033 Wade Greely Lay v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP administrative-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-statutes habeas-corpus prisoner-rights Question not identified.
25-5074 Michael Horton v. Captain Gilchrist, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP discovery-rights federal-rules prisoner-litigation pro-se-litigant section-1983 summary-judgment This Court's precedent is clear that federal courts "should generally not depart from the usual practice under the Federal Rules on the basis of perce…
25-5098 Elizabeth Nelson, et al. v. Service Towing, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process municipal-liability property-rights section-1983 towing-dispute 1) Do pro'se appellants ' state a 42 USC Sec 1983 claim under 4, 5,14ft Amendment when appellee city of Warren MI property and maintenance employees,…
25-5243 Karen Y. Baez v. Synectics for Management Decisions, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP access-to-courts due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct mootness-doctrine pro-se-complaint 1) Whether a district court violates the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses by dismissing a factually supported pro se complaint as frivolous un…
25-5245 Zachary C. Crouch v. Tennessee Department of Human Services Sixth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-law sovereign-immunity state-law supremacy-clause The questions presented for review include whether state sovereign immunity can be and should be applied to federal laws of fraud and theft. This is a…
25-5255 In Re Alex Anderson Denied IFP appellate-review custody-dispute family-court legal-standard procedural-due-process support-determination Question not identified.
25-5260 David Angel Sifuentes, III v. Michigan Michigan Denied IFP None Question not identified.
25-5268 Robert L. Schwalb v. Justices of the Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District Illinois Denied IFP None Question not identified.
25-5270 Lawrence Newman, et ux. v. Heritage Village West Condominium Association, Inc., et al. Florida Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process foreclosure-litigation judicial-misconduct nonprofit-status religious-discrimination 1. HVW 'S religious discrimination against Jews in HVW 's foreclosure litigation, facilitated by prejudicial judicial insurrection and non-enforcement…
25-5272 Michael A. Powell v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
25-5295 David C. Lettieri v. Department of Justice, et al. Second Circuit Dismissed IFP appeal-duration constitutional-procedure jurisdictional-timing notice-of-appeal prisoner-mailbox-rule procedural-prejudice 1. For a notice of appeal it is sixty days from the notice to the petitioner? 2. Does the "prisioner mailbox rule" matter? 3. Does length of duratio…
25-5296 In Re Joshua Isaac Martinez Denied IFP None Pedytronee if reekn g Suprt mt Cowt Bale IF Direct Ape trom a Dist Cd Petrie; Fi FP) 2027, dirwyaring harcore "witholt prs ju dee tor bik ot juasdicti…
25-5300 In Re Onofre Serrano Denied IFP brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression ninth-circuit probable-cause 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit arbitrarily concluded that Petitioner has not made a substantial showing of the denial of a Constitutional right? 2. Whe…
25-5304 Jonathan David Loggins v. Ronny Albert, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied IFP due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment implied-consent rule-15b summary-judgment 1. Implied Consent Under Rule 15(b). Whether the lower courts ' refusal to recognize implied consent for a fully litigated excessive force claim — d…
25-5307 In Re Sara Murray Denied IFP ada-compliance civil-rights disability-rights due-process judicial-misconduct mandamus I. Structural Conflict of Interest Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the U.S…
25-5308 Michael J. Gaddy v. C. Pfeiffer, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP claim-preclusion constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment ninth-circuit parole-hearing 1. WHETHER THE NINTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN APPLYING CLAIM PRECLUSION TO BAR PETITIONER'S FIRST AMENDMENT FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION CLAIM WHEN THE ALLEGED CONS…
25-5310 Maurice Bernard Moore v. Daniel L. Hebert, former District Judge, Saline County of Kansas, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied IFP collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights double-jeopardy habeas-corpus rooker-feldman sovereign-immunity 1. Why the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruling conflicts with the Third Circuit on the Matter of Rooker-Feldman Provision not overrulin…
25-5314 Theodore Justice v. McAngus Goudelock & Courie LLC, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP access-to-courts constitutional-claims due-process judicial-admission procedural-limitations section-1983 I. Whether federal appellate courts may dismiss 42 U.S.C. § 1983 constitutional claims through procedural limitations when the underlying due process …
25-5317 Stephen Corey Bryant v. Joel Anderson, Acting Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-rule post-conviction-counsel procedural-default When a district court dismisses a federal habeas petition, a circuit court must issue a certificate of appealability for any claim in the petition who…
25-5320 Heon Jong Yoo v. Brian Barker, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law federal-jurisdiction law-enforcement mental-health Question not identified.
25-5321 Jeffrey Ricardo Wimberly v. Michigan Michigan Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-violation equitable-tolling jurisdictional-challenge michigan-supreme-court subject-matter-jurisdiction While Mr. Wimberly was on appeal he sought and received equitable tolling per Michigan Supreme Court Administrative Order 2020-21. The Court of Appeal…
25-5324 Kenneth Alfred Linville, Jr. v. Washington Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief A. Did the state and federal courts decide that newly discovered evidence was not newly discovered evidence on the checks? B. Did the state and feder…
25-5326 Geneva Langworthy v. Supreme Court of New Mexico New Mexico Denied Response WaivedIFP court-access disability-rights due-process judicial-bias legal-representation self-representation 1. Can a judge with a personal bias against a party, deny that individual access to the courts as a punishment for disrespectful language in her plead…
25-5340 Jeffrey J. Mitchell v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia Denied IFP None Question not identified.
25-5349 Paul Bruce v. Steve Upton, Warden Georgia Denied IFP due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure petition-dismissal supreme-court-clerk 1) FT peed to no how He Hrbens Corpus Judy e, Caw dismiss we Habecs Petilion without letting the "Peditdiqnr peeseat any evidence oF Speck on his bela…
25-5350 Monica Curtis v. Justice Court of the North Las Vegas Township, Clark County, Nevada Nevada Denied IFP civil-rights employment-discrimination fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment sovereign-immunity If a state asserts sovereign immunity against a civil rights complaint, should the court accept the submission as the state, "Pleading the Fifth," and…
25-5353 Huy Trong Tran v. Brian Cates, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
25-5354 Michael Joshua Henderson v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General, et al. Second Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment marijuana-scheduling medical-necessity A. Whether this Court should overrule Gonzales v. Raich, 545 U.S. 4, 125 S.Ct. 2145 (2005) in this present day and time? B. If so, whether in this pr…
25-5355 Toya Gibson v. Ridgewells Catering Fifth Circuit Denied IFP catering-industry contract-interpretation covid-19-restrictions employment-discrimination employment-guide workplace-rights Was employee Toya M Gibson discriminated against, considering she was hired and then denied the ability to work the guaranteed hours that was noted in…
25-5356 Oscar Oropeza v. Hector Rios, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied IFP compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process witness-testimony Question not identified.
25-5359 Robert Joyce v. Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. Second Circuit Denied IFP arbitration-award collective-bargaining duty-of-fair-representation employment-termination federal-rules labor-relations 1. Should Petitioner have been foreclosed from challenging the alleged fraud in Federal Court pursuant to 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act be…
25-5360 Rachel Goode v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law judicial-review law-of-case mandate-rule remand social-security Where a District Court remands a decision of the Social Security Administration, to address a specific error, not related to the residual functional c…
25-5364 David R. Kauffman v. United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violations federal-procedure judicial-misconduct mandamus-petition rule-16 On October 3,2023, Petitioner David Ryan Kauffman ("Mr. Kauffman ") filed a civil action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court f…
25-5374 Artez Hammonds v. Alabama Alabama Denied IFP circuit-split due-process jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination sixth-amendment 1. Given an expanding circuit, and now state court, split regarding whether, under Griffin v. California, 380 U.S. 609 (1965) and Carter v. Kentucky,…
25-5380 Peter S. Chow v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
25-5384 Christopher Kines v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice Fifth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-violations court-procedure evidence-standard fifth-circuit judicial-proceedings 1. Is it the common practise of the Fifth Circuit to disregard facts in the record and ignore evidence the court itself agreed to consider? 2. Did …
25-5385 Eric Deon Rollins v. Texas Texas Denied IFP affirmative-defense constitutional-rights criminal-defendant due-process jury-instruction state-trial-court WHETHER A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT IS DEPRIVED OF HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS UNDER THE 6TH AND 14TH AMENDMENTS TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION TO PRESENT A…
25-5402 Martin G. Plotkin v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-hearing due-process judicial-bias levy-action recusal tax-court 1. Do the intentional, deliberate, and purposeful actions and statements of Tax Court Judge Morrison, whether derived from 'judicial' or 'extrajudicia…
25-5432 Pleadro J. Scott v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None I. be£5 THE FPH-sg Frtb pg.H.JV'PF-b r&-s rx>-»o >^T oF TT+F -TT/WaSs' rFxrZFjF & bfJA F\eJ»£.HT MA, b/FFEb ftQjuOtb As fyP£.X£J> Xm tHzx c~A$£ PPJ vh…
25-5445 Carlos L. Woodson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default rule-60b subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether under Wainwright v. Sykes , 433 U.S.72 (1977) Id. At 81 states appellant court 's direct appeal order can be procedurally defaulted and ba…
25-5450 John Todd Williams v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP article-three due-process federal-appellate-judge judicial-designation jurisdiction post-conviction-motion 1. Whether a federal appellate judge who was never properly designated under 28 U.S.C. § 294 may lawfully adjudicate a post-conviction 28 U.S.C. § 22…
25-5504 Justin Everett Kessler v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-conditions district-court-discretion lifetime-supervision sentencing-review supervised-release vagueness-doctrine I. Did the District Court Abuse Its Discretion by Imposing an Unconstitutionally Vague and Overbroad "Loitering" Supervised Release Condition? II. Di…
25-5515 Jessie Smith, III v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure constitutional-safeguards criminal-procedure due-process revocation-hearing supervised-release Does the Due Process Clause require that district courts apply the constitutional safeguards of Brady v. Maryland when a defendant faces a revocation …
25-5517 Joshua Rodriguez v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review evidence-rule hearsay-exception judicial-interpretation present-sense-impression reliability-standard Have the federal appellate courts departed too far from the purpose and intent of the present-sense impression exception to the hearsay rule, such tha…
25-5519 Demario D. Henderson 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…
25-5527 David Jewell v. Delaware Delaware Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-5528 Arthur L. Vitasek v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP arguable-claims criminal-defendant habeas-relief judicial-jurisdiction magistrate-determination ninth-circuit-procedure Under Penson v. Ohio, 488 U.S. 75 (1988), whether the Magistrate, the District Court Judge, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals lost jurisdiction t…
25-5536 Floyd Madison v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP None 1. Whether, contrary to the Due Process and Jury Clauses, the trial court erred in imposing an enhanced sentence under a statute authorizing the enhan…
25-5538 Ezequiel Ambrosio-Vail v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent judicial-overruling legal-precedent supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
25-5540 Brayan Alexander Contreras-Avalos v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP cooperator-testimony criminal-conviction evidentiary-standard prosecutorial-burden sufficiency-of-evidence witness-credibility 1. Where the Government did not introduce any physical or forensic against Mr. Contreras-Avalos, and the only evidence introduced was cooperator testi…
25-5542 Francis Burns v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-tax-code tax-law taxpayer-bill-of-rights 1. Was Petitioner, Francis Burns denied his Constitutionally-protected Common Law right under the Taxpayer Bill of Rights where the UNITED STATES OF A…
25-5545 Miguel Angel Homedes v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review closing-argument due-process evidentiary-rules prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure Whether improper prosecutorial statements in closing argument are sufficiently flagrant to warrant reversal, where they inserted facts not directly in…
25-5549 Vladislav Konstantin Aksenov v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment racial-bias trial-procedure Do the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the government at trial from implicitly evoking stereotypes about a defendant's racial or ethnic backg…
25-5554 Marcus J. Ross 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…
25-5589 Shane Stevens v. Colorado Colorado Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea mootness postconviction-relief procedural-default Whether a state postconviction scheme that bars relief for a guilty plea induced by a sentence later declared void ab initio—on the grounds of proced…
25-5606 Joan Doe v. Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas, in their Official Capacity, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP ada-title-ii ada-title-v administrative-law due-process fourteenth-amendment university-discipline 1. Whether the Due Process Clause permits a 13-day interim suspension —without notice or an exigency claim —that merged into an eight month suspension…
25-5623 Devon Joseph Anderson v. Alicia Carver, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability district-court federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-conviction D'.cL M-.rvllv Coiv^ of Ajpp-cals trr il a^ f'dfu^S'f or CxxA'f coAx- cf Appt atab'll' ly? Ji) iy d lk< lUd-cJ SUk-s DisUcd too*-/ for DiUricJ ' of ^…
25-5636 Gordon M. Mayhew v. Arizona Arizona Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process first-amendment free-exercise probation-conditions rehabilitation religious-liberty 1. Whether, consistent with the Free Exercise clause (App. B-l) and Due Process (App. B-3, B-4) (Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments), a State may compe…
25-5693 Yasmani Gurri Rubio v. City of Alexandria, Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment judicial-procedure rule-12b3 statutory-interpretation venue-dismissal QUESTION 1 Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment is violated when a federal district court dismisses an action with prejudice for imp…
25-5699 In Re Mark Woods Denied IFP constitutional-law federal-appeals habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge statutory-interpretation suspension-clause 1. Did the District Court and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals violate the suspension clause of the United States Constitution Art.I, section 9,cl…
25-57 Edward Ronny Arnold v. Allstate Insurance Company Sixth Circuit Denied appellate-civil-court authority-exceeding district-court eighth-circuit judicial-district tennessee-constitution 1. Whether the district court erred in not understanding the Eighth Circuit Court of Davidson County, Tennessee Twentieth Judicial District violated T…
25-5703 In Re Steven Ray Wycoff Denied IFP aedpa-restrictions conflict-of-interest due-process habeas-corpus innocence-claim prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Whether upon.a court of appeals' denial of leave to file a second federal habeas application AEDPA's § 2244(b) (3) (E) prohibits any party from see…
25-5719 In Re Flenoid Greer Dismissed IFP constitutional-violation exceptional-circumstances federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief state-prisoner Where a State Prisoner is unconstitutionally detained and the State's post-conviction rules foreclose relief, and no other adequate relief is availabl…
25-781 Donald Wenger v. James T. Warren, et al. Ninth Circuit Pending article-i-section-8 federal-preemption individual-liability subject-matter-jurisdiction uniformed-services-act veterans-judicial-review-act 1. Whether state judges are BOUND by the Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Protection Act (USFSPA) Pub. Law 97-252 (1982) pursuant to Article I §…
25-89 Jonathan Lee, et al. v. Poudre School District R-1 Tenth Circuit Denied Amici (3)Relisted (2) best-interests child-custody due-process parental-rights school-district state-intervention Whether a school district may discard the presumption that fit parents act in the best interests of their children and arrogate to itself the right to…
25M20 Latisha Anderson v. United States Fourth Circuit Presumed Complete Relisted (2) None
25M21 Angela Campbell v. Tony Evers, et al. Seventh Circuit Presumed Complete None
25M22 Christopher M. Bauer v. Job Service of North Dakota, et al. North Dakota Presumed Complete None
25M23 Kevin Belton v. Clifford Osborne, et al. Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete None
25M24 Donald Wenger v. Judge James T. Warren, et al. Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None
25M25 Thanh C. Tran v. Liberty Mutual Group Inc., et al. Massachusetts Presumed Complete None
25M26 Derek Skellchock v. Judge Laurie Dean, et al. Tenth Circuit Presumed Complete None
25M27 Linda A. Logan, et al. v. Heather Antaya, et al. First Circuit Presumed Complete None
25M28 Jeremiah Bobb v. United States Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None