Conference: 2025-10-17
105 cases — 4 granted, 96 denied/dismissed, 5 pending
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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… |
| 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 … | |
| 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), which prohibits firearm possession by unlawful drug users, violates the Second Amendment as applied to the respondent |
| 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), which prohibits firearm possession by unlawful drug users, violates the Second Amendment |
| 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), which prohibits firearm possession by unlawful drug users, violates the Second Amendment |
| 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), which prohibits firearm possession by unlawful drug users, violates the Second Amendment |
| 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 | Whether Congress has stripped the federal courts of habeas jurisdiction over Convention Against Torture (CAT) claims by individuals facing extradition | |
| 24-38 | Bradley Little, Governor of Idaho, et al. v. Lindsay Hecox, et al. | Ninth Circuit | Granted | Amici (26)Relisted (4) | biological-differences biological-sex equal-protection fourteenth-amendment sex-discrimination sports-participation transgender transgender-rights women's-sports | Whether laws that seek to protect women's and girls' sports by limiting participation to women and girls based on sex violate the Equal Protection Cla… |
| 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 | Whether the COVID-19 pandemic and federal lockdowns constitute a valid basis for equitable tolling of filing deadlines in a pro se employment discrimi… |
| 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 due process rights when imposing a sentence upon revocation of supervised release by using the PROTECT Act to sen… |
| 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 | Whether a district judge has authority to deny a government motion to dismiss with prejudice and whether a criminal defendant has standing to challeng… |
| 24-7512 | In Re Walter Drummond | Dismissed | Relisted (3)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression miranda-rights unlawful-arrest | Did the Florida Supreme Court err in denying the respondent's motion to suppress evidence due to an unlawful arrest and Miranda rights violation? | |
| 24-935 | Flower 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… |
| 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 | Whether the California Department of Motor Vehicles violated constitutional rights through fraudulent registration fee schemes and unlawful vehicle se… | |
| 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 disregarding evidence of employer bias against male employees is contrary to the Supreme Court's decision … | |
| 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 | Whether Section 853(n) permits a third-party claimant to amend its petition to cure technical pleading defects after the expiration of the 30-day fili… |
| 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 | Whether forcible and unauthorized entry pursuant to Cal. Health & Safety Code § 17980.7 violates Fourth Amendment search protections and requires a wa… |
| 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 | Can a governmental entity 'significantly contribute' to a plaintiff's alleged harms in a manner sufficient to support Article III standing when the go… | |
| 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 | Does the statutory immunity that state agencies and officials enjoy in California state court from lawsuits under 42 U.S.C. §1983 as to imposition of … | |
| 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 | Whether the right to refuse an unapproved medical treatment constitutes a fundamental due process right under the Fourteenth Amendment and whether a p… |
| 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… |
| 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 | Question not identified. |
| 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 | Whether the State's failure to disclose a centerpiece witness's psychiatric hospital admission constitutes a Brady violation warranting relief under d… |
| 25-254 | Khamraj Lall v. United States | Third Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review legal-standard sentence-reduction | Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals violated fundamental due process principles by granting a stay to delay proceedings until an unfavorable la… |
| 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 | 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 canno… |
| 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 the Court should exercise its supervisory power to correct the Second Circuit's failure to ensure the purposes of the Speedy Trial Act are giv… |
| 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 | Whether the transfer avoidance provisions of the bankruptcy code should give way to state law regarding transfers and whether an Affidavit of Sale suf… |
| 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 | Whether courts of appeals can invoke 28 U.S.C. § 2106 to reverse and remand in the interests of justice without identifying a specific legal or factua… |
| 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 | Whether the introduction of speculative lay opinion by a law enforcement officer violates the petitioner's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights and eviden… |
| 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 | Whether Rule 56 summary-judgment standards apply uniformly to 2255 habeas motions across federal circuits |
| 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 |
| 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 | Whether the appellate court committed error by overturning Hibbs v. Winn and holding that constitutional claims arising from assessment bar federal ju… |
| 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 | Is not States' premature adjudication of qualifications of Elector Candidates' Pledged Candidates unconstitutional and violation of the foundational p… |
| 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… |
| 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 | Whether Kentucky state and federal courts can dismiss civil complaints before discovery without applying the Twombly standard of review |
| 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… |
| 25-5077 | In Re Deryl Nelson | Dismissed | Relisted (3)IFP | arrest-warrant complaint-validity fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-hearing probable-cause | Did the state appeals court err in finding probable cause for an arrest warrant issued without a sworn complaint or judicial finding of probable cause… | |
| 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 | Whether a court must consider all mitigating evidence in capital sentencing review without imposing a causal nexus requirement |
| 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 | Was the state court's summary denial of Petitioner's habeas claims alleging defense counsel's failure to investigate, develop and present available ev… |
| 25-5335 | In Re Xena Ames | Denied | IFP | abuse-of-discretion eeoc-complaint employment-discrimination ineffective-counsel mandamus writ-of-certiorari | 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 ineffective counse… | |
| 25-5366 | Jane Doe v. Jack Dwosh | California | Denied | IFP | due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment indigent-party pro-per | Does the Eighth Amendment's Excessive Fines Clause protect a pro per indigent party in State courts, whether or not she uses the term 'Eighth Amendmen… |
| 25-5372 | In Re Olamide Olatayo Bello | Dismissed | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | None | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5376 | Wesley Swick v. United States | Fifth Circuit | Pending | IFP | criminal-procedure federal-law fugitive-tolling habeas-corpus sentencing supervised-release | Whether the fugitive-tolling doctrine applies in the context of supervised release |
| 25-5393 | Ross Farca v. California | California | Denied | IFP | assault-weapon constitutional-challenge due-process mens-rea search-warrant second-amendment | Whether California's Assault Weapon Control Act is constitutional and whether various procedural and constitutional violations occurred in the prosecu… |
| 25-5394 | Zachary Allen Holman v. Michigan | Michigan | Denied | IFP | None | Question not identified. |
| 25-5395 | Hamid Rabiee v. California | California | Denied | IFP | None | Question not identified. |
| 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 | Does a state prisoner's conviction violate due process when trial counsel provides ineffective assistance through erroneous jury instructions |
| 25-5401 | Gregory Matthew Seay v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | Denied | IFP | collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights double-jeopardy equal-protection manifest-necessity mistrial | Does the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals' decision contradict the Ninth Circuit's ruling in Weston v. Kernan, thereby violating equal protection un… |
| 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 a claim in a prior app… |
| 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 | Whether a defendant can obtain exculpatory evidence withheld by prosecutors and challenge due process violations through habeas corpus when potentiall… |
| 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 | Whether real estate agents' refusal to communicate buyers' offers based on religious contingencies constitutes a violation of constitutional or civil … |
| 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 | Whether debt buyers are defined as Lenders and whether state courts violate due process by refusing to enforce federal arbitration agreements |
| 25-5448 | Erick Wanjiku v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | Denied | IFP | None | Question not identified. |
| 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 | Whether under Virginia Law, multiple procedural irregularities occurred in the Alexandria District Court and Federal Court proceedings that potentiall… |
| 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 | Whether the court will revisit a motion to suppress evidence based on newly discovered perjured testimony by a detective in obtaining a search warrant… |
| 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 the United States Constitution by deviating from Florida's standard jury instruction on death by unlawful distributio… |
| 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 | Whether the lower court erred in applying Louisiana law despite an explicit Texas choice-of-law provision in the Service Agreement |
| 25-5478 | Gregory D. Crosby aka Gregory D. Cosby v. Mistelle J. Starr, Warden, et al. | Tenth Circuit | Dismissed | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | None | Question not identified. |
| 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 | Whether a judge who made stigmatizing statements about a disability contravened the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Due Process Clause by fail… |
| 25-5497 | Bryant Buckhanan v. Illinois | Illinois | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | None | Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 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 potential sentence faced by Mr. Wilson, should he be convicted at trial, is to be compared to the plea agreement whe… |
| 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 | Whether pro se, incarcerated habeas corpus petitioners should be granted procedural time extensions due to extraordinary COVID-19 pandemic circumstanc… |
| 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 | Whether a disqualified trial judge's recusal due to substantial prejudice constitutes a structural error when the judge previously presided as both ac… |
| 25-5567 | Ramel Drew v. United States | Sixth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | None | Question not identified. |
| 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 … |
| 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 | Whether employment and its employee benefits constitute 'money or property' under the federal wire fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1343, and whether concea… |
| 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' … |
| 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) was a state actor in the Bosnian War and whether Mr. Djurdjic's alleged omission of uniformed service con… |
| 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 court violated petitioner's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights by issuing repeated instructions that foreclosed the possibility of … |
| 25-5580 | Moises Moreno v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | chemical-compound constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process forensic-analysis sentencing | Did the D-CA's forensic chemical compound analysis violate constitutional due process rights in sentencing? |
| 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 | Are Congress's powers under the Define and Punish Clause inherently limited by international law, and does the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act excee… |
| 25-5588 | Terry Willis v. United States | Sixth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure judicial-involvement lafler-v-cooper missouri-v-frye plea-negotiations sentencing-exposure | Does the prohibition on judicial involvement in plea discussions extend to a district court inviting a defendant's questions about sentencing exposure… |
| 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 | Whether the Court's Bruen decision creates a retroactively applicable Second Amendment right and whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A)(i) violates the Seco… |
| 25-5591 | Bruce Franklin v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-liberties constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review legal-procedure state-power | Question not identified. |
| 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 violated the Petitioner's constitutional right to counsel on direct appeal by failing to make an on-the-record finding th… |
| 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 … |
| 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… |
| 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 | Whether there was sufficient evidence to sustain the jury verdicts and whether the court erred in applying a two-level sentencing enhancement for poss… |
| 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 | Must a petitioner alleging ineffective assistance of counsel in advising whether to plead guilty demonstrate a predisposition to pleading guilty as a … |
| 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 a federal criminal defendant must object post-sentence to preserve a claim of sentencing procedural error |
| 25-5632 | Isaac Alvarez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | None | Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 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 | Do constitutional structural limits on federal authority impose constraints on the scope of Congress authority to enact legislation to implement a val… |
| 25-5646 | John C. Miller v. Indiana | Indiana | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights counsel-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment state-constitution | Whether the Indiana Supreme Court's decision on March 13, 2025 was in error regarding constitutional protections under Terry v. Ohio |
| 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 | Does the ACCA occasions-different inquiry render Erlinger errors structural, and what is the proper harmless-error test when a defendant is found guil… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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 | Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits imposing an enhanced ACCA sentence when a defendant pleaded guilty only to the simple § 922(g) offense an… |
| 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 | Whether an appeal waiver in a plea agreement bars an appeal of a resentenced term when the defendant is actually innocent of one of the original charg… |
| 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 Ninth Circuit erred in construing a habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 as a second or successive motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 despite… |
| 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 an indigent and incarcerated defendant with minimal education and no English comprehension, raising a colorable ineffective assistance of coun… |
| 25-5685 | Anthony Lemicy v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-exploitation constitutional-violation criminal-procedure evidentiary-sufficiency specific-intent statutory-interpretation | Can the government prove specific intent of 'use' without minor testimony, relying solely on circumstantial evidence and images, in violation of feder… |
| 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 | Whether a federal habeas corpus petitioner can invoke equitable tolling when extraordinary circumstances prevent timely filing of a habeas petition |
| 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? |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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 | Whether a person compelled to commit a criminal act to avert a greater evil can be denied the necessity defense if an alternative 'safer' method exist… |
| 25-5718 | In Re Christopher J. Bradford | Denied | IFP | aedpa cause-and-prejudice constitutional-rights habeas-corpus procedural-default second-successive-petition | Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing a second or successive habeas corpus petition under AEDPA's gatekeeping provision and cause and preju… | |
| 25-5759 | In Re Anthony Geno Martinson | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution custody-conditions extradition-law fugitive-status warrant-validity | Whether a state can constitutionally prosecute multiple crimes from a single criminal episode after initial sentencing and release from custody | |
| 25-5761 | Leonard Wista Najacque v. Virginia | Virginia | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | None | Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 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 … |
| 25M29 | Christopher A. Rogalski v. Pennsylvania Department of Education, et al. | Pennsylvania | Pending | None | ||
| 25M30 | Amir M. Hamza v. Eileen Yandik, et al. | Second Circuit | Pending | None |