Conference: 2025-10-17

105 cases — 4 granted, 96 denied/dismissed, 5 pending

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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