Conference: 2025-10-17
103 cases — 3 granted, 98 denied/dismissed, 2 pending
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-935 | Flowers Foods, Inc., et al. v. Angelo Brock | Tenth Circuit | Granted | Amici (22)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | contract-law employment-law federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation transportation-workers | Are workers who deliver locally goods that travel in interstate commerce —but who do not transport the goods across borders nor interact with vehicles… | 37.0 |
| 24-1234 | United States v. Ali Danial Hemani | Fifth Circuit | Granted | Amici (23)Relisted (3) | constitutional-law criminal-procedure drug-users firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of firearms by a person who "is an unlawful user of or addicted to any … | 34.5 |
| 25-6 | Thomas Keathley v. Buddy Ayers Construction, Incorporated | Fifth Circuit | Granted | Amici (6)Relisted (2) | bad-faith bankruptcy-law civil-claims judicial-estoppel judicial-integrity procedural-doctrine | Whether the doctrine of judicial estoppel can be invoked to bar a plaintiff who fails to disclose a civil claim in bankruptcy filings from pursuing th… | 17.0 |
| 25-45 | Chatom Primary Care, P.C., et al. v. Merck & Co., Inc. | Third Circuit | Denied | Amici (2) | adjudicative-proceeding antitrust-liability fraud-doctrine government-deception legal-immunity litigation-misconduct | Is intentional deception of the government in an adjudicative proceeding completely immunized from antitrust liability so long as the deception succee… | 12.5 |
| 24-1247 | United States v. La'Vance LeMarr Cooper | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (3) | constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-use firearms-possession second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of firearms by a person who "is an unlawful user of or addicted to any … | 11.5 |
| 24-1248 | United States v. Patrick Darnell Daniels, Jr. | Fifth Circuit | Pending | Relisted (3) | constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-statute federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of firearms by a person who "is an unlawful user of or addicted to any … | 11.5 |
| 24-1249 | United States v. Kindle Terrell Sam | Fifth Circuit | Pending | Relisted (3) | constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-use firearms-possession second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of firearms by a person who "is an unlawful user of or addicted to any … | 11.5 |
| 25-181 | Arthur Lopez v. California Department of Motor Vehicles, et al. | California | Denied | civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection registration-fees unlawful-seizure | Should the State of California Department of Motor Vehicles and the other defendants in this case be accountable for deprivation of Civil Rights (incl… | 10.5 | |
| 25-211 | Anthony Bernard Wingfield v. Unknown Garner, CO, et al. | Fifth Circuit | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split deliberate-indifference discrimination federal-rights title-ii | Whether plaintiffs seeking damages under Title II of the ADA must demonstrate something more than the defendant's deliberate indifference to the plain… | 9.5 |
| 24-1110 | Saint Anthony Hospital v. Elizabeth M. Whitehorn, Director, Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services, et al. | Seventh Circuit | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | federal-enforcement hospital-rights medicaid-law prompt-payment-rule section-1983 spending-clause | In determining whether Saint Anthony Hospital has a right to sue to enforce the prompt payment rule, should the court of appeals have treated Wilder a… | 9.0 |
| 25-294 | Juan Carlos Sandoval-Rodriguez v. United States | Fourth Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment | Whether trial judges must define "reasonable doubt" for the jury upon the defendant's request. | 8.5 |
| 25-64 | Iron Bar Holdings, LLC v. Bradly H. Cape, et al. | Tenth Circuit | Denied | Amici (3) | corner-crossing eminent-domain land-grant preemption property-rights trespass | Whether the Unlawful Inclosures Act implicitly preempts private landowners' state-law property right to exclude in an area covering millions of acres … | 8.5 |
| 24-1167 | Niagara-Wheatfield Central School District v. New York | Second Circuit | Denied | federal-court parens-patriae population-harm quasi-sovereign-interest standing state-attorney-general | How widespread must an injury to a State's quasi-sovereign interest be, and how clearly must it transcend harm to particular private parties, to give … | 5.5 | |
| 24-1288 | Monika Kapoor v. Vincent F. DeMarco, United States Marshal for the Eastern District of New York, et al. | Second Circuit | Denied | convention-against-torture extradition habeas-corpus immigration-law judicial-review suspension-clause | 1. Whether Congress has stripped the federal courts of habeas jurisdiction over CAT claims by individuals facing extradition. 2. Whether application … | 5.5 | |
| 25-191 | James Napier v. Orchard School Foundation | Seventh Circuit | Denied | civil-rights-act employer-bias employment-discrimination equal-protection evidentiary-standards title-vii | Whether the opinion of the court of appeals below disregarding evidence of the background circumstances of the employer's bias against male employees … | 5.5 | |
| 25-195 | St. James Parish, Louisiana v. Inclusive Louisiana, By and Through Their Members, et al. | Fifth Circuit | Denied | article-iii-standing environmental-justice governmental-entity land-use-decisions racial-discrimination statute-of-limitations | 1. Article III Standing Environmental justice activist organizations, acting as the Plaintiffs and purporting to have suffered harm as the result of … | 5.5 | |
| 25-196 | Cyrus Mark Sanai v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit | Ninth Circuit | Denied | 42-usc-1983 attorney-discipline reciprocal-discipline state-court-jurisdiction statutory-immunity supremacy-clause | Under California 's State Bar Act as authoritively interpreted by California 's appellate courts, the State Bar, the California Supreme Court, and the… | 5.5 | |
| 25M29 | Christopher A. Rogalski v. Pennsylvania Department of Education, et al. | Pennsylvania | Presumed Complete | None | 5.5 | ||
| 25M30 | Amir M. Hamza v. Eileen Yandik, et al. | Second Circuit | Denied | None | 5.5 | ||
| 25-204 | Jeri Pearson, et al. v. Shriners Hospitals for Children, Incorporated, et al. | Fifth Circuit | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | due-process fourteenth-amendment informed-consent medical-treatment research-ethics state-action | Since Congress enacted the 1974 National Research Act, it has been the federal government's policy that no individual can be subjected to a penalty or… | 4.5 |
| 25-193 | Gravity Funding, LLC and Gravity Capital, LLC v. United States, et al. | Fifth Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split forfeiture-proceedings pleading-amendment property-interest statutory-interpretation technical-defect | Under 21 U.S.C. § 853(n), third-party petitioners asserting an interest in property that has been forfeited to the federal government must file a veri… | 3.5 |
| 25-194 | Dianna E. Webb v. City of Westminster, California, et al. | California | Denied | Response Waived | fourth-amendment health-and-safety-code probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrant-requirement | 1. Whether or not forcible and unauthorized entry pursuant to Cal. Health & Safety Code § 17980.7, and obtaining evidence to use is in pseudocriminal … | 3.5 |
| 25-235 | Designworks Homes, Inc., et al. v. Columbia House of Brokers Realty, Inc., dba House of Brokers, Inc., dba Jackie Bulgin & Associates, et al. | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | None | 1. Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in holding that it was fair for real-estate agents to reverse engineer a buildable floorplan of a house; place no … | 3.5 |
| 25-237 | Bruce Mason v. Delaware, et al. | Third Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | brady-violation circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process prosecutorial-disclosure witness-impeachment | 1. Whether the State's failure to disclose that its centerpiece witness was admitted to a psychiatric hospital prior to testifying, which was discover… | 3.5 |
| 25-254 | Khamraj Lall v. United States | Third Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review legal-standard sentence-reduction | 1. Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals violated fundamental due process principles by granting a stay requested by the government to delay proc… | 3.5 |
| 25-260 | Patrick Franklin Harris v. Ricardo R. Carter | First Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review court-bias habeas-corpus judicial-impartiality legal-procedure section-2255 | 1. Is the 28 U.S.C. § 2255 process effective when the impartiality of the habeas court and appellate have been disrupted so significantly that they ca… | 3.5 |
| 25-262 | Aleksandr Pikus v. United States | Second Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review legislative-compromise presumptive-prejudice prosecutorial-neglect sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act | Whether this Court should exercise its supervisory power to correct the Second Circuit's failure "to ensure that the purposes of the [Speedy Trial] Ac… | 3.5 |
| 25-272 | Andy Luu Tran v. Herbert Jacobs | First Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | bankruptcy-code deed-validity land-records mortgage-foreclosure state-law transfer-avoidance | 1. Whether the transfer avoidance provisions of the bankruptcy code should give way to state law regarding transfers? 2. Whether an Affidavit of Sale… | 3.5 |
| 25-287 | Gerardo Gonzalez-Valencia v. United States | District of Columbia | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review interests-of-justice judicial-discretion remand-standards section-2106 statutory-interpretation | Under 28 U.S.C. § 2106, Congress granted this Court and the courts of appeals broad authority to act in the interests of justice. The issue here is wh… | 3.5 |
| 25-288 | Vinaykumar Patel v. United States | Third Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | confrontation-clause federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment hearsay-evidence law-enforcement-testimony sixth-amendment | 1. Whether the introduction of speculative lay opinion by a law enforcement officer, asserting a staged robbery without personal knowledge or expert… | 3.5 |
| 25-289 | Muhamed Pathe Bah v. United States | Fifth Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | 2255-motion federal-circuits habeas-corpus legal-standard rule-56 summary-judgment | Courts in every federal district apply Rule 56 to 2255 motions; the application, however, is uneven. In the Second Circuit, the summary-judgment rules… | 3.5 |
| 25-299 | Sam Silverberg v. District of Columbia, et al. | District of Columbia | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-court collateral-estoppel constitutional-claim federal-jurisdiction judicial-review revenue-impact | 1. Whether the appellate court committed error by overturning Hibbs v. Winn, 542 U.S. 88 (2004) by holding that any constitutional claim arising di… | 3.5 |
| 25-301 | Frank Marshall, et ux. v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, et al. | Seventh Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | ballot-access electoral-college first-amendment fourteenth-amendment presidential-qualifications state-election-law | For the first time in the history of the United States, a State violated the foundational principles of the Electoral College by removing bona fide Pr… | 3.5 |
| 25-341 | EcoFactor, Inc. v. Google, LLC | Federal Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | damages-evaluation due-process expert-testimony federal-circuit jury-award seventh-amendment | Whether the Federal Circuit violated the Seventh Amendment by overturning the jury's damages award based on its own evaluation of the sufficiency of t… | 3.5 |
| 25-346 | Geoffrey M. Young v. Morgan McGarvey | Kentucky | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss pleading-standards state-court-review | 1. Should this Court allow Kentucky's state courts and federal district courts to dismiss meritorious civil complaints before discovery "for failure t… | 3.5 |
| 25-5096 | Christopher John Spreitz v. Arizona | Arizona | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP | capital-sentencing constitutional-review death-penalty habeas-corpus mitigating-evidence ninth-circuit | 1. Whether in conducting independent sentencing review to cure a constitutional error in a capital case, a court must consider all of the evidence in … | 2.0 |
| 24-7254 | Legarius Deshawn Bonner v. United States | Fourth Circuit | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure due-process PROTECT-Act revocation sentencing supervised-release | DOES THE COURT VIOLATE A DEFENDANT'S RIGHTS TO DUE PROCESS OF LAW WHEN IMPOSING A SENTENCE UPON REVOCATION OF SUPERVISED RELEASE, WHEN THE COURT EMPLO… | -1.0 |
| 24-7463 | Mark Christian Wroblewski v. United States | District of Columbia | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure executive-discretion mandamus-petition prosecutorial-discretion rule-48-dismissal standing-doctrine | Following the Executive Order of January 20, 2025, Granting Pardons and Commutation of Sentences for Certain Offenses Relating to the Events at or Nea… | -1.0 |
| 25-5611 | Daquan Carey v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | article-iii constitutional-interpretation district-court judicial-discretion sentencing-authority sentencing-requests | Whether a district court's sentencing authority is constrained by the parties' sentencing requests under Article III, Section 2, of the United States … | -1.5 |
| 25-5618 | Jamil Jones v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure fifth-amendment mitchell-precedent right-to-silence self-incrimination sentencing | Whether the failure to apologize or express remorse violates the Fifth Amendment right to remain silent at sentencing, a question left open by Mitchel… | -1.5 |
| 25-5632 | Isaac Alvarez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | None | Where there is no specific and articulable reason to objectively believe any occupant of a stopped vehicle is armed, dangerous, or involved in crimina… | -1.5 |
| 25-5634 | Shawn M. Robertson 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… | -1.5 |
| 25-5651 | Jose Henry Hernandez-Garcia v. United States | Fourth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure district-court-discretion evidence-weighing judicial-review motion-for-new-trial trial-standard | Whether a district court abuses its discretion when ruling on a defendant's motion for a new trial by not independently weighing the evidence presente… | -1.5 |
| 25-5652 | Federico Jose Maldonado-Aleman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court conspiracy drug-distribution jury-trial sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | Whether the Fifth Circuit's decision that a defendant may be sentenced for drugs that he was not shown to have agreed to distribute violates the Court… | -1.5 |
| 25-5654 | Thomas Bradley v. United States | Sixth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act double-jeopardy fifth-amendment sentencing-enhancement shepard-documents sixth-amendment | Because harmless-error review of Erlinger error typically requires appellate judges to evaluate facts outside the record of conviction for the charged… | -1.5 |
| 25-5694 | Eric Brenes-Colon v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review clearly-erroneous findings-of-fact judicial-discretion record-support standard-of-review | Whether a district court's findings of fact must be reversed when they are unsupported by the record? | -1.5 |
| 25-5695 | Frank Deonta Leopaul 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… | -1.5 |
| 25-5697 | Desmond Copeland 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… | -1.5 |
| 24-7512 | In Re Walter Drummond | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression miranda-rights unlawful-arrest | Question not identified. | -3.5 | |
| 25-5077 | In Re Deryl Nelson | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | arrest-warrant complaint-validity fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-hearing probable-cause | The magistrate issued an arrest warrant without probable cause based on a complaint that was not sworn to but instead signed by an unknown person func… | -3.5 | |
| 25-5153 | Steven Catlin v. Edward J. Silva, Acting Warden | Ninth Circuit | Denied | IFP | death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mitigation-evidence voir-dire | 1. Was the state court's summary denial of Petitioner's habeas claims alleging defense counsel's failure to investigate, develop and present available… | -4.5 |
| 25-5335 | In Re Xena Ames | Denied | IFP | abuse-of-discretion eeoc-complaint employment-discrimination ineffective-counsel mandamus writ-of-certiorari | 1. ) Whether the issuance of a writ of mandamus is the proper procedure to correct a clear abuse of discretion by the trial court, due to erroneous is… | -4.5 | |
| 25-5366 | Jane Doe v. Jack Dwosh | California | Denied | IFP | due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment indigent-party pro-per | The Eighth Amendment's Excessive Fines Clause, which protects against excessive punitive economic sanctions, is fundamental to the scheme of ordered l… | -4.5 |
| 25-5393 | Ross Farca v. California | California | Denied | IFP | assault-weapon constitutional-challenge due-process mens-rea search-warrant second-amendment | I. Is California's Assault Weapon Control Act: §30605, §30600, §30800 & §30950 constitutional, especially when Prosecution "Firearm Expert" conceded t… | -4.5 |
| 25-5394 | Zachary Allen Holman v. Michigan | Michigan | Denied | IFP | None | Question not identified. | -4.5 |
| 25-5395 | Hamid Rabiee v. California | California | Denied | IFP | None | t. state / G^la fa affeHanfi / /.Uo* . , h c4> </■$■ G>- s+i'^bo>' ai ^! ech 'w tHti d n a*d Ce"^ °J^ eih fn ' f IS l & ^S>z>/7 1l?f7^J Shafc Sup^r^ C… | -4.5 |
| 25-5396 | Gregory K. Parks v. Jamie Bullard, Warden | Fourth Circuit | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions trial-counsel | t^VA - jo pAVcrA "Me GovemmenA anl Me flnieA rr)en~f n^M"J, cinooSe. 4t> use leyA glSl&inct. 4o comply unM lU Rr$A rfme^AmenV t^VA - jo pAVcrA "Me G… | -4.5 |
| 25-5401 | Gregory Matthew Seay v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | Denied | IFP | collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights double-jeopardy equal-protection manifest-necessity mistrial | (1) DOES THE OKLAHOMA COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS' DECISION IN THE INSTANT CASE CONTRADICT THE DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES COURT OF THE NORTHERN DISTR… | -4.5 |
| 25-5422 | Lamont Johnson v. Michele Dauzat, Warden | Fifth Circuit | Denied | IFP | federal-statute habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-bar second-successive-application state-action | Whether a second in time habeas application which raises a claim that the petitioner was prevented by state action from raising in a prior application… | -4.5 |
| 25-5428 | Rodger D. Stevens v. Michael Miller, Warden | Tenth Circuit | Denied | IFP | brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct | 1) How does a defendant obtain the evidence that proves his innocence when the prosecutor knowingly presents false evidence and refuses to turn over t… | -4.5 |
| 25-5436 | Jehan Semper v. Hawaii Life Real Estate Services, LLC, et al. | Ninth Circuit | Denied | IFP | agent-misconduct civil-rights-violation constitutional-rights housing-discrimination real-estate-discrimination religious-freedom | Constitutional and Civil Rights 1. Real Estate Agent(s) Refuse to Communicate Buyers Offer(s) to Seller(s). Is it a violation of rights protected by… | -4.5 |
| 25-5447 | La'Shaun Clark v. Jefferson Capital Systems, LLC, as Assignee of One Main Financial Group, LLC | Georgia | Denied | IFP | contract-law debt-buyer due-process equal-protection federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce | The Federal Arbitration Act FAA 9 U.S.C. §§ 1-16 is a substantive rule applicable in state as well as in federal Courts. The FAA withdrew the power of… | -4.5 |
| 25-5448 | Erick Wanjiku v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | Denied | IFP | None | Whether or not (Oklahoma Court of Appeals [text unclear]) has violated due process of a family [text unclear] and administrative [text unclear] of a f… | -4.5 |
| 25-5451 | Zephaniah S. Edwards v. Bland Management, et al. | Fourth Circuit | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure district-court due-process evidence-admissibility federal-rules virginia-law | Question I: Whether under Virginia Law, when determining the majority of motions for this case, can unfair, unjust and biased decisions be made by de… | -4.5 |
| 25-5453 | George T. Rodgers, aka Gary Adams, aka Jeffrey Reid, aka Jim Johnson v. New Jersey | New Jersey | Denied | IFP | body-worn-camera exculpatory-evidence grand-jury identification-error perjury search-warrant | 1. Detective Josh Pavlov of the Bordentown Township Police Dept, applied for and obtained a search warrant for the home of the defendant's father unde… | -4.5 |
| 25-5454 | Marquis Luis Rosado v. Florida | Florida | Denied | IFP | constitutional-violation controlled-substance criminal-law fentanyl-distribution jury-instruction trial-court | WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT VIOLATED TO UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION BY DEVIATING FROM FLORIDA 'S STANDARD JURY INSTRUCTION ON DEATH BY UNLAWFUL DISTRIBUTIO… | -4.5 |
| 25-5455 | Jesus Torres v. Cheniere Energy, Inc., et al. | Texas | Denied | IFP | choice-of-law discovery-process jurisdictional-deficiency service-agreement statutory-employer summary-judgment | 1. Choice of Law: Did the lower court err in applying Louisiana law to the plaintiffs claims despite the explicit choice-of-law provision in the Servi… | -4.5 |
| 25-5718 | In Re Christopher J. Bradford | Denied | IFP | aedpa cause-and-prejudice constitutional-rights habeas-corpus procedural-default second-successive-petition | 1. Whether the United States Court pf Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in its decision to dismiss the Petitioner 's 'application for leave to … | -4.5 | |
| 25-5759 | In Re Anthony Geno Martinson | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution custody-conditions extradition-law fugitive-status warrant-validity | 1. Is a Criminal prosecution for a civil breach of contract for ASN~ Payment cons diongh 2 ac? 2. Is a Criminal prosecution for debt constr dione? 3… | -4.5 | |
| 25-5372 | In Re Olamide Olatayo Bello | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | None | The OCR text provided is severely degraded and largely illegible. While a "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED" header is visible, the actual questions that follow … | -5.5 | |
| 24-7055 | Willie Lee HavMmeri v. Methodist Health Systems, Dallas | Fifth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | covid-19-tolling employment-discrimination equitable-tolling judicial-procedure pro-se-filing right-to-sue | 1. Did the Pandemic (Covid-19 Federally Mandated Shutdowns/Lockdowns) present a considerable factor in the Equitable Tolling of Time, Reasonable Dilig… | -6.0 |
| 25-5478 | Gregory D. Crosby aka Gregory D. Cosby v. Mistelle J. Starr, Warden, et al. | Tenth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | None | Question not identified. | -6.0 |
| 25-5483 | Z. G. v. M. C. | Pennsylvania | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | americans-with-disabilities-act disability-discrimination due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-recusal | The question presented is whether a judge who made a number of troubling statements that appear to have been motivated by stigma and stereotypes assoc… | -6.5 |
| 25-5497 | Bryant Buckhanan v. Illinois | Illinois | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | None | Question not identified. | -6.5 |
| 25-5518 | Dejuan Dion Bruner v. United States | Tenth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge domestic-violence firearm-possession misdemeanor permanent-disarmament second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9), which imposes a lifetime prohibition on firearm possession by anyone convicted of a domestic-violence misdemeanor, is c… | -6.5 |
| 25-5520 | Dennis Wilson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-trial due-process fundamental-rights plea-agreement rights-to-counsel sentencing | Whether the predicted outcome and the potential sentence faced by Mr. Wilson, should he be convicted at trial, is to be compared to the plea agreement… | -6.5 |
| 25-5524 | Wesley Brian Earnest v. Kemsey Bowles, Warden, et al. | Fourth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | covid-19 dna-evidence habeas-corpus legal-research pro-se procedural-time-bar | Should pre se, incaccecated Habeas Corpus petitioners be Procedural ly time-bacced when The multi- yeac COVID-19 Pandemic created "Extenocdinary Cireu… | -6.5 |
| 25-5560 | Yancey J. Myers v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias jury-misconduct structural-error trial-procedure | 1) . Where a disqualified trial judge recuses himself due to substantial prejudice/bias ; POSTCONVICTION! is there a structural error because said j… | -6.5 |
| 25-5567 | Ramel Drew v. United States | Sixth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | None | Whether the Pinkerton theory of co conspirator liability jury instruction can be provided in a case when the Indictment does not allege a criminal con… | -6.5 |
| 25-5570 | David Curran v. United States | Third Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-conflict drug-conspiracy due-process standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the Third Circuit's standard of review of sufficiency of evidence in drug conspiracy cases is in conflict with other circuits and falls below … | -6.5 |
| 25-5576 | Nadege Auguste v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-statute money-or-property right-to-control wire-fraud | I. Do employment and its employee benefits constitute the "money or property" of the employer for the purpose of the federal wire fraud statute, 18 U.… | -6.5 |
| 25-5577 | Brandon Grunwaldt v. United States | Fourth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-statute federal-criminal-law minor-protection statutory-interpretation video-evidence | Does a video of a minor in a bathroom engaged in ordinary grooming activities depict "the lascivious exhibition of the anus, genitals, or pubic area" … | -6.5 |
| 25-5578 | Sinisa Djurdjic v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bosnian-war due-process immigration-fraud naturalization refugee-status state-actor | Whether the Srpska Demokratska Stranka (SDS), predecessor to the Republika Srpska and one side of the entire Bosnian War at the time of the war's outb… | -6.5 |
| 25-5579 | Kevin Marvell Jackson v. United States | Tenth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-trial due-process fifth-amendment judicial-coercion jury-instructions sixth-amendment | Whether the district violate d petitioner's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights to due process and a fair trial by issuing repeated instructions that for… | -6.5 |
| 25-5580 | Moises Moreno v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | chemical-compound constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process forensic-analysis sentencing | Did David L. Rallens' (act) of sending a Private Investigator Coteban Hearnandez to MEXICO Violate my Constitutional Rights and Due Process law Under … | -6.5 |
| 25-5584 | Virgilio Valencia-Gamboa v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | congressional-power criminal-jurisdiction define-and-punish-clause extraterritorial-jurisdiction international-law maritime-drug-law | Article I, Section 8, Clause 10 of the United States Constitution empowers Congress "[t]o define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the hig… | -6.5 |
| 25-5588 | Terry Willis v. United States | Sixth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure judicial-involvement lafler-v-cooper missouri-v-frye plea-negotiations sentencing-exposure | The district court participated in plea discussions, in violation of Federal Rule Criminal Procedure 11(c)(1), by discussing the merits of a plea offe… | -6.5 |
| 25-5590 | Jorge Enrique Barragan-Gutierrez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bruen-decision constitutional-rights criminal-law retroactivity second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1) Whether this Court's decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), recognized a new right that is retroactivel… | -6.5 |
| 25-5591 | Bruce Franklin v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-liberties constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review legal-procedure state-power | 4he, (JOCkS F(\cV Viewer /Uor -/'he. Cckfl cuWreSS Fits COQe^cd S'^o-bd'-t'v ui\)c/e.r - nM dfejdfffiesyb 4he.l I. M. _ _ .? .i.h • ? u J zf) Mz>u) Co… | -6.5 |
| 25-5592 | Brijesh Goel v. United States | Second Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights direct-appeal knowing-voluntary on-the-record right-to-counsel waiver | Whether the Court of Appeals below violated the Petitioner's constitutional right to counsel on direct appeal by failing to make an on-the-record find… | -6.5 |
| 25-5619 | Michael Garrick Denson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure dangerous-weapon evidence-sufficiency jury-verdict sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether there was sufficient evidence to sustain the jury verdicts. 2. Whether the court erred in applying a two-level sentencing enhancement for … | -6.5 |
| 25-5630 | Geneva Kristina Hudson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining section-2255 | 1. Must a petitioner alleging ineffective assistance of counsel in advising whether to plead guilty demonstrate a predisposition to pleading guilty as… | -6.5 |
| 25-5631 | Brian Goorahoo v. United States | Second Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-appeal federal-sentencing preservation-of-error procedural-error sentencing-procedure | Whether, to preserve for appeal a claim that the sentencing court committed procedural error by failing to explain its sentence adequately or relying … | -6.5 |
| 25-5644 | Derrick Murphy v. United States | Sixth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-limits federal-authority missouri-v-holland necessary-and-proper-clause state-prerogatives treaty-power | In 2014 the Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional as applied §229, criminal provisions of the Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act.(See Bond … | -6.5 |
| 25-5646 | John C. Miller v. Indiana | Indiana | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights counsel-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment state-constitution | Whether of not the decision made on March 13, 2025 by the Indiana Supreme Court was in error. Based on the substantive argument made by the Defendant'… | -6.5 |
| 25-5650 | Deangelus Thomas v. United States | Sixth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure harmless-error sentencing-guidelines shepard-documents sixth-amendment | (1) Does the ACCA occasions-different inquiry, requiring a detailed, multi-factored analysis of the facts surrounding at least three prior offenses—fa… | -6.5 |
| 25-5669 | Stanislav Steven Yelizarov v. United States | Fourth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence appeal-waiver ineffective-counsel miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement resentencing | When a criminal defendant is resentenced after a conviction is vacated because he is actually innocent of the charge, does an appeal waiver in the ple… | -6.5 |
| 25-5674 | Byron Neal v. Warden, FCI Terminal Island | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-question detention-legality habeas-corpus savings-clause second-successive-motion | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ("Ninth Circuit") erred in construing Neal's Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus und… | -6.5 |
| 25-5677 | Juan De Dios Alvarez-Romero v. United States | Fifth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | §-2255 direct-appeal evidentiary-hearing indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance pro-se-motion | Whether, if an indigent and incarcerated defendant with minimal education and no ability to comprehend English, for the first time on direct appeal wi… | -6.5 |
| 25-5685 | Anthony Lemicy v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-exploitation constitutional-violation criminal-procedure evidentiary-sufficiency specific-intent statutory-interpretation | I. CAN THE GOVERNMENT PROVE THE SPECIFIC INTENT OF "USE" "FOR THE PURPOSE" WITHOUT THE MINORS TESTIFYING(direct evidence), OR CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE… | -6.5 |
| 25-5690 | Adam Jay Stone v. Patwin Horn, Acting Warden | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus legal-diligence statute-of-limitations | In a federal habeas corpus case, an appellant who has missed the one-year filing deadline due to extraordinary circumstances beyond their control may … | -6.5 |
| 25-5710 | Philip Alejandro Powers, III v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affirmative-defense criminal-act criminal-law greater-evil justification-doctrine necessity-defense | Should a person who is compelled to commit a criminal act in order to avert a greater evil be denied the protection of the necessity defense if he cou… | -6.5 |
| 25-5761 | Leonard Wista Najacque v. Virginia | Virginia | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | None | Kp/kyp elvrtL st * trap, hill 7 . lid — D10jLJJia±J)n£L^^ -Fox s&MAg- cmwl x\ttt Jf it'was Qy vert bcv&SL ixlky 2t^_ZLLo£ja.^ - - — - -MjJnjl -J^_(… | -6.5 |