Conference: 2025-11-14

117 cases — 1 granted, 104 denied/dismissed, 12 pending

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Case Title Lower Court Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22O161 Nebraska, Plaintiff v. Colorado Pending CVSG None
24-1022 Susan Hutson v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) civil-procedure judicial-jurisdiction motion-to-terminate prison-litigation-reform-act prospective-relief statutory-interpretation Whether a State or local official who moves to terminate prospective relief under 18 U.S.C. § 3626(b)(1)(A) bears any affirmative burden beyond demons…
24-1185 National Rifle Association, Incorporated v. Mark Glass, Commissioner, Florida Department of Law Enforcement Eleventh Circuit Pending Amici (6)Relisted (2) age-restriction constitutional-rights firearm-purchase florida-law gun-control second-amendment Whether Florida's law banning 18-to-20-year-olds from purchasing firearms violates the Second Amendment
24-1187 Vanda Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Food and Drug Administration, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law agency-discretion drug-approval fda-regulation medical-innovation statutory-interpretation Whether FDA has acted contrary to its statutory mandate by substituting an evaluation of a drug development program's potential for assessing a new dr…
24-1244 David A. McMaster, Jr. v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) emergency-aid-exception fourth-amendment law-enforcement-search probable-cause protective-sweep-doctrine warrantless-entry Whether it is an improper expansion of the 'emergency aid exception' and/or 'protective sweep doctrine' to authorize a warrantless entry into a home w…
24-1261 Cambridge Christian School, Inc. v. Florida High School Athletic Association, Inc. Eleventh Circuit Denied Amici (24)Response RequestedRelisted (2) establishment-clause free-exercise free-speech government-speech religious-liberty santa-fe-doctrine Whether Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe compels a finding of government speech where two private Christian schools sought to engage in com…
24-1280 Gesture Technology Partners, LLC v. Apple Inc., et al. Federal Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-adjudication article-iii non-jury-forum patent-monopoly patent-validity property-rights Whether the PTO has the authority to conduct administrative adjudications regarding the validity of expired patents, and thereby extinguish private pr…
24-1281 Gesture Technology Partners, LLC v. Unified Patents, LLC Federal Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-adjudication article-iii non-article-iii-forum patent-monopoly patent-validity property-rights Whether the PTO has the authority to conduct administrative adjudications regarding the validity of expired patents, and thereby extinguish private pr…
24-1299 Planet Green Cartridges, Inc., a California Corporation v. Amazon.com, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-liability communications-decency-act internet-platforms product-misrepresentation section-230 third-party-content Does Section 230 confer immunity on internet platforms when they knowingly permit, facilitate, and profit from third-party promotion and sale of misre…
24-1310 David Engstrom, et al. v. James W. Denby Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment property-damage qualified-immunity warrant-execution Did the Ninth Circuit err in applying the Graham v. Connor reasonableness standard for excessive force to a destruction of property claim during warra…
24-1329 Christopher Paris, Commissioner, Pennsylvania State Police v. Second Amendment Foundation, et al. Third Circuit Pending Amici (1)Relisted (2) age-restrictions circuit-split constitutional-interpretation founding-era-law gun-rights second-amendment Do firearms laws imposing a minimum age of 21 violate the purported Second Amendment rights of 18-to20-year-olds?
24-6385 Baboucar B. Taal v. John Cronin, et al. Second Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction property-rights state-actor-misconduct takings-clause Whether victims of state actor-led property fraud have a constitutional right to seek federal court redress for Fifth Amendment Takings Clause violati…
24-6779 Daniel E. Hall v. X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. First Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP court-integrity fraud-upon-court judicial-procedure legal-remedy local-rule rule-60 How does the Supreme Court define and address instances of fraud upon the court, the required duty to apply Local Rule 83.1(a), the required procedure…
24-6955 In Re Dexter Leemon Johnson Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction legal-existence state-sovereignty tribal-rights Whether Oklahoma's legal existence and jurisdictional status can be challenged under U.S. Constitutional precedent as a separate and potentially inval…
24-7022 Darrell Lamar Marshall v. City of Detroit, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights color-of-law conspiracy constitutional-violations fraud statute-of-limitations Whether there is a statute of limitations for civil and criminal charges involving fraud, conspiracy, and constitutional violations against a minor un…
24-7183 James Little v. United States District of Columbia Denied Relisted (5)IFP appellate-review double-jeopardy executive-order january-6-offense presidential-pardon sentencing Should this Court grant the petition, vacate the judgment below, and remand the case for further consideration of the government's pending motion to d…
25-106 Ronald DeWitt Vines v. United States Third Circuit Denied attempted-crime bank-robbery circuit-split crime-of-violence force-definition statutory-interpretation Whether attempted armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(d) and the first paragraph of § 2113(a) involves the "use, attempted use, or threatened us…
25-13 Marcellus Henderson v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2) bank-robbery crime-of-violence divisible-statute elements-clause federal-statute sentencing-enhancement 1. Is federal bank robbery in § 2113(a) indivisible, such that no form of bank robbery qualifies as a "crime of violence" for purposes of § 924(c)? 2…
25-132 West Virginia Citizens Defense League, Inc. v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, et al. Fourth Circuit Pending Amici (1) age-restriction constitutional-rights federal-law firearm-sales gun-control second-amendment Whether a federal law that bans licensed sales of handguns and handgun ammunition to law-abiding 18-to-20-year-old adults violates the Second Amendmen…
25-163 Corrigan Clay v. United States Third Circuit Denied constitutional-interpretation criminal-statute extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-commerce-clause missouri-v-holland optional-protocol 1. Whether the Foreign Commerce Clause empowers Congress to criminalize private, non-commercial conduct that occurs entirely abroad. 2. Whether Misso…
25-184 Deamonte Law v. United States Third Circuit Denied as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-review firearm-regulation historical-tradition second-amendment This Court's decisions in N.Y. State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022) and United States v. Rahimi, 602 U.S. 680 (2024), require our di…
25-24 Joshua Clay McCoy, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated as a Class, et al. v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, et al. Fourth Circuit Pending Amici (3) age-restriction constitutional-rights federal-law firearms-regulation gun-purchase second-amendment 1. Whether federal laws banning 18-to-20-year-olds from purchasing handguns from federally licensed of the right to keep arms. 2. pursuant to Fed. R.…
25-25 Avianca Group International Limited v. Burnham Sterling and Company LLC, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bankruptcy-code chapter-11 debt-accrual lease-obligation payment-timing statutory-interpretation Whether, for purposes of Section 365(d) of the Bankruptcy Code, the "obligation" of a Chapter 11 debtor under a lease "aris[es]" as soon as the obliga…
25-290 Christopher Odeku v. Texas Texas Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived confrontation-clause constitutional-law nurse-examiner sexual-assault sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence Are a complainant's statements to a sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) testimonial for purposes of the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause?
25-302 Patsy Talley v. Dale R. Folwell, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived due-process fourth-circuit pre-deprivation procedural-rights property-rights state-treasurer Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in a published opinion has ignored decades of law establishing the right to pre-deprivation due process in…
25-305 Louise DeBerry v. Chicago Board of Education, et al. Illinois Denied Response Waived administrative-hearing due-process evidence-admissibility fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness witness-testimony Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provide a mechanism for relief in administrative hearings when evidence is introduced that is …
25-311 Genesis Financial Solutions, Inc. v. Steve Ford, et al. Fourth Circuit Pending Amici (1)Response Requested arbitration-clause circuit-split consideration-requirement contract-law federal-arbitration-act preemption Does the Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA"), 9 U.S.C. § 2, permit states to impose separate and heightened consideration requirements that apply only to …
25-318 Eric Matthew Mumaw v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township Third Circuit Denied appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court habeas-corpus procedural-error third-circuit 1. Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability? 2. Whether the District Court should …
25-328 Norman Douglas Diamond v. United States, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived administrative-error iRS-procedure judicial-jurisdiction statutory-compliance tax-refund withholding-credits 1. The case of Peretz v. US (Fed. Cl. 2020 affd Fed. Cir. 2022) reveals a malicious pattern including cases of Peretz and petitioner Diamond. The IRS …
25-360 J. P. v. J. N. New Jersey Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure constitutional-rights judicial-corruption judicial-impartiality procedural-fairness recusal 1. Did corruption within the NJ judiciary violate the petitioner-plaintiff's constitutional rights? 2. Why was the Appellate team switched to all ind…
25-361 Asante, et al. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. District of Columbia Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived equal-payment federal-supplemental-funds healthcare-payment medicaid-reimbursement out-of-state-hospitals state-regulation Whether a State's Medicaid program violates 42 C.F.R. § 431.52(b)'s equal-payment requirement by denying supplemental payments to out-of-state hospita…
25-371 Clark's Barber Lounge, LLC, et al. v. Destin Health and Fitness, LLC Florida Denied Response Waived attorney-representation conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-ethics per-curiam 1. Whether a conflict of interest exists for an attorney who gave advice to one client and then represented another client on the same matter, and whe…
25-377 North American Credit Services, Inc. v. Abdul Crawford Eleventh Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived bona-fide-error consumer-debt debt-collection fdcpa medical-debt workers-compensation 1. Whether the FDCPA requires third party debt collectors to conduct an independent preemptive investigation to review for all potential defects or ch…
25-393 Patricia Raad, et al. v. Bank Audi S.A.L. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure contract-performance forum-selection judicial-venue personal-jurisdiction state-jurisdiction When the contract provides for performance in a State, whether the defendant's failure to perform within the State is determinative to defeat personal…
25-401 Alexander Carter, et al. v. Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff, Cook County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-provisions due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment government-seizure property-rights The circuits are divided on whether the Fourth Amendment protects property rights when a person's "papers and effects" remain in government custody af…
25-405 Audrey Clement v. The Washington Post District of Columbia Denied Response Waived administrative-exhaustion age-discrimination candidate-questionnaire federal-jurisdiction first-amendment-rights procurement-contracts A. The Age Discrimination Act of 1975 ("ADA ") provides federal court jurisdiction over allegations of age discrimination when the plaintiff has exh…
25-407 Scott Breimeister v. United States Fifth Circuit Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived double-jeopardy government-misconduct implied-consent mistrial prosecutorial-misconduct strict-scrutiny I. What constitutes implied consent to a mistrial when determining if a defendant has forfeited a Double Jeopardy claim? II. Does strict scrutiny app…
25-408 Tamara Baines v. City of Atlanta, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived employment-discrimination equal-protection hostile-work-environment section-1983 sexual-harassment title-vii To Respondent Robin Shahar: Whether the "some harm" standard articulated by this Court in Muldrow v. City of St. Louis , 601 U.S. 346 (2024) applies…
25-422 Deshawn M. Dawson v. United States Armed Forces Denied Response Waived court-martial criminal-conviction due-process-clause military-justice sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Does the Constitution preclude a court-martial panel of lay members from convicting a defendant of a criminal offense by a non-unanimous vote?
25-424 Patricia Ashton Derges v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-review brady-violations constitutional-violations due-process judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct Whether seven constitutional violations — including violations of the Fourth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments — over 120 Brady violations, and more t…
25-5 Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. v. Al Otro Lado, a California Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit Granted Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) asylum-application border-entry immigration-law immigration-officer statutory-interpretation u.s.-mexico-border The Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq., provides that an alien who "arrives in the United States" may apply for asylum and must be…
25-5038 Nicholas Weir v. Montefiore Medical Center, et al. Second Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP attorney-deceit collateral-estoppel federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure new-york-law statutory-interpretation If Marrese v. Am. Acad, of Orthopaedic Surgeons, 470 U.S. 373, 380 (1985) and/or 28 U.S.C. § 1738 are controlling, should the Federal Court recognize …
25-5040 Nicholas Weir v. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP citizenship conscientious-objection first-amendment military-service naturalization oath-of-allegiance Can the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services ("USCIS ") and its employees deny an application for naturalization because the applicant …
25-5063 John Armstrong, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP aiding-and-abetting bank-robbery crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation I. Under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) and United States v. Taylor, 596 U.S. 845 (2022), is a conviction for federal bank robbery under Section 2113(a) categoric…
25-5065 In Re Derrick L. Johnson Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence constitutional-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction preponderance-of-evidence REffiritenfs WflV'F tefilioN&tJfJ COMl^V^LAMof^CoiJ^ifoMoF^ Utifeb CeuRfUftS ToRiSblClioiU Mteiu REfrfion/EA SEEK^AiJEublCATfBfJo^TffS Mer/1s QFUM Pe…
25-5251 Shahriar Behnamian v. Coke Morgan Stewart, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP court-clerk deficiency-notice federal-rules-civil-procedure pro-se service-of-process summons 1. Whether a pro se plaintiff has properly served a defendant when the plaintiff serves the defendant himself at the advice of the court's clerk and…
25-5331 Maurice Farris v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction gun-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether Mr. Farris's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol A…
25-5338 Avontae Guiden v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP bruen-analysis firearm-possession historical-justification probation-status second-amendment statutory-interpretation 1. Whether an individual's probation or supervised release status categorically strips them of Second Amendment protection under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)…
25-5347 Daniel Lee Lusk, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearms-possession gun-rights interstate-commerce second-amendment I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment? II. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firear…
25-5357 Jessie Dejuan Sullivan v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-law facial-challenge second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation First, whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) facially violates the Second Amendment? Second, some sentencing judges assert that they would have selected the …
25-5412 Ryan Daniel Richmond v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP commerce-clause controlled-substances federal-preemption marijuana-regulation necessary-and-proper-clause tax-deduction Whether 26 U.S.C. § 280E—which denies ordinary and necessary business deductions to enterprises trafficking in Schedule I controlled substances—may co…
25-5533 Stanton Guillory v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility propensity-evidence rule-404b witness-testimony Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) prohibits the use of a defendant's other bad acts to argue he has a propensity to commit a crime. The Government never…
25-5539 Louis Age, III v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-review rule-404b sufficiency-of-evidence I. Did the Fifth Circuit erroneously apply federal law in finding that the evidence at trial was sufficient to establish the crimes beyond a reasonabl…
25-5556 Louis Age, Jr. and Ronald Wilson v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP business-record confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence-authentication hearsay-exception 1. Whether the Confrontation Clause permits the prosecution in a criminal trial to present to the jury, in lieu of live testimony and over defense obj…
25-5604 Christopher J. Rahaim v. Nancy M. Ley, former Judge, Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP civil-prisoner-litigation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-immunity section-1983 stare-decisis 1. Is the deprivation of due process rights, in underlying state criminal litigation, exempt from the civil prisoner litigation clause 28 U.S.C. § 191…
25-5613 Andres Serrato Garnica v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP None A. v^4 <f£ Corpwi a/%A n«V CaA 0^ He^a^ 6W mu?-4j flu 4e 6We #f- M*kA <tF O'U^e^ Vtel-w v*rfe ? g -He T*\ A.oV ' /'•ft 'heF 6^ P '&M'fr(A6''>S 'IAU^W …
25-5615 Shahram Shakouri v. Scott Becker, former Judge, 219th Judicial District Court of Texas, Collin County, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights due-process filing-fee fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceeding poverty-exception (1) Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in denying the motion of this poverty-stricken Petitioner for extension of time to pay the filing fee, denied him …
25-5621 Ja'Kroi Allen Banks v. Texas Texas Denied IFP critical-stage due-process ineffective-assistance plea-withdrawal pro-se-defendant sixth-amendment Ja'Krai Banks filed an 11.07 on August 23, 2019. Banks received an affidavit from Private Investigator James McKay in March of 2020. Banks used McKay'…
25-5629 Darvell McFarlin v. Andrew McFarlane, Warden Georgia Pending Response RequestedIFP None Question not identified.
25-5635 Roy Franklin Echols v. CSX Transportation, Inc. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violations federal-courts railroad-law summons-issuance workplace-exposure The United States Federal Courts have Denied the " Independent Question of Great Public Importance " which no other inferior court will answer. 1. Wa…
25-5638 Okechukwu Amadi v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General, et al. District of Columbia Denied IFP constitutional-rights department-of-justice due-process judicial-review mandamus prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Whether the district court erred in denying Petitioner Okechukwu Amadi's motion to compel the Department of Justice ("DOJ") to investigate allegati…
25-5640 Jason Russell v. Illinois Illinois Denied IFP None h/icVsa vrMortes -the* U<-il-|ec{ (2onslllk» lion
25-5641 Walter Timothy Gause v. Frank Zimmerman Fourth Circuit Denied IFP None The text in the "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED" section is illegible due to handwriting and OCR limitations. The section contains handwritten content that can…
25-5642 Tonnerrious Jamarcus McGee v. Texas Texas Denied IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment government-code judicial-appointment misdemeanor-sentencing trial-judge 1. Whether the Trial Court 122nd District Court (Galveston County) Texas use of a visiting trial judge who was not properly appointed nor noted on the…
25-5643 Deloris Phillips v. Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers' Compensation Fifth Circuit Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process economic-discrimination equal-protection legal-representation Did the United States District Court of the Northern District of Texas Dallas Division unconstitutionally err in labeling petitioner vexatious-frivolo…
25-5645 In Re Derrick L. Johnson Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-violation custody-challenge district-court habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-judgment Whether the 12/26/24 judgment of Respondent United States District Court, Central District of California and Appellee United States is void? Whether…
25-5647 Kolby Reshaad Moore v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-appeal insufficient-evidence legal-sufficiency murder-conviction reasonable-doubt WHETHER THE SECOND CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE STATE OF LOUISIANA AND THE LOUISIANA SUPREME COURT ERRED WHEN IT DENIED PETITIONER'S CLAIM RAISED …
25-5648 Ikeie Ranordo Smith v. Dale Bonn, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP federal-claim leave-to-file michigan-court-of-appeals procedural-default state-procedural-rules supplemental-brief 1. IS MICHIGAN COURT RULE (MCR) 7.405(E)(H) AND ALL QUATE STATE PROCEDURAL RULES PRECLUDE REVIEW OF A FEDERAL CLAIM, WHERE THE MICHIGAN COURT OF APPEA…
25-5659 Ohio, ex rel. Ricardo Dodson v. Shelbie Smith, Warden Ohio Denied IFP double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-verdict sixth-amendment trial-procedure 1. Can a trial court correct-Amend a jury's verdict that announced the wrong name upon reading the verdict, upon assenting to the verdict on polling, …
25-5670 Sarai Hannah Ajai v. North Dakota Department of Transportation, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment pro-se rule-4m service-of-process Petitioner, a pro se civil-rights litigant, challenges the ongoing alteration and redistribution of her state-issued North Dakota REAL ID identificati…
25-5675 Rosalind D. Harris v. AT&T Eighth Circuit Denied IFP None /X ft /iwinftnM cfts£ Ttf-Z ?ft(Lr'ES ' I
25-5682 Damon Neal Dunbar, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP actual-innocence brady-violation constitutional-error jury-evidence napue-violation prosecutorial-misconduct 1. whether the Oklahoma court of criminal appeals erred in rejecting confessed constitutional errors under Brady and Napue and giving not weight to t…
25-5689 Kenneth Eugene Gage v. California Ninth Circuit Denied IFP conviction-status criminal-detention due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-remedy 1. Where throughout Our Nation ALL criminal defendants are routinely released, liberty restored, should the felony trial judge, in exercise of his or…
25-5692 Pete Szmurlo v. TK Elevator Corporation, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied IFP anti-injunction-act appellate-review due-process rule-65 subject-matter-jurisdiction tro-duration 1. Whether a temporary restraining order (TRO) exceeding 14 days becomes a de facto preliminary injunction requiring immediate appellate review under …
25-5711 Jermal Williams v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied Response WaivedIFP circumstantial-evidence constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment standard-of-proof Under the due process clause of the U.S. Constitution Amendment XIV, is La. R.S. 15:438 a higher standard of proof than Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. …
25-5720 Gregory Bartunek v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-fact-finding jury-trial sentencing Whether the rights of due process and to a jury trial are violated when courts impose sentences that, but for a judge-found fact, including, but not l…
25-5732 Jeremy Baum v. Missouri Missouri Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-conviction due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial legal-precedent Whether affirming a criminal conviction on a different theory than what was presented to the jury conflicts with this Court's holdings in Cole v. Arka…
25-5775 Edward Walton v. Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights covid-vaccine due-process eighth-circuit executive-order genetic-information-nondiscrimination-act 1. Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in affirming the dismissal of Petitioner's Due Process claim without remanding for factual development on the COVI…
25-5780 Timothy Marcus Mayberry v. Stacy Hall Indiana Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review state-law I. Whether the Court of Appeals of Indiana deprived me of the secured right to one appeal under state law, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, w…
25-5792 Timothy Nesdahl v. C. Garrett, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment legal-error liberty-interest Whether the due process clause of the fifth amendment to the United States Constitution requires an appellate court to address a purely legal error co…
25-5794 Jasmine E. Golden v. Amazon North Carolina Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-justice civil-rights corporate-misconduct gatekeeper-order intellectual-property pro-se-litigation 1. Petitioner was denied appropriate justice and retribution for the intentional maligning of her brand name, GoldenPrints, LLC, and intellectual prop…
25-5803 Grigorii Duralev v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None
25-5806 Ricky Dixon v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Whether the district court abused its discretion and the Eleventh Circuit affirmance of the lower court's failure to conduct an Evidentiary Hearing as…
25-5811 Ricky Joe Bland v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing drug-testing federal-circuit-split probation-officer sentencing-procedure supervised-release Did the district court below err in imposing as a special condition of supervised release a requirement that "[t]he defendant… participate in a progra…
25-5812 Michael Barreto v. United States Second Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP competency-hearing criminal-procedure defendant-rights judicial-discretion mental-competency statutory-interpretation If a district court orders a competency examination under § 4241(b) based upon reasonable cause to question a defendant's competency, is it mandatory …
25-5814 Jaylyn Devell McGhee v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-entry implied-license law-enforcement search-and-seizure Whether, consistent with the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, law enforcement may exceed the implied license to approach the front door of a…
25-5816 William Loydellton Speed, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP buyer-seller-exception career-offender-guideline controlled-substance drug-conspiracy federal-law state-law 1. Whether the term "controlled substance" in the definition of "controlled substance offense" in the Career Offender Guideline, § 4B1.2(b), refers to…
25-5820 Kevin Deane Jones v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP as-applied-challenge conditional-pardon felony-conviction firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the statute permanently prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonmen…
25-5821 Gregory Lee Rodvelt v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment official-duties sixth-amendment statutory-authority 1. Is a federal employee "engaged in. . . the performance of official duties" to sustain a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 111 when there is no statutory…
25-5823 Steven Nicholas Fulton v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury-verdict sixth-amendment Whether an appellate court may, consistent with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments, reinstate a jury's guilty verdict where the judge did not find, and th…
25-5824 Luis Marrot Caceres v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 automatic-reversal district-court habeas-corpus judicial-error motion-denial Whether the district court's misunderstanding of the record as evidenced in its order denying Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion was so fundamental …
25-5825 Laterrence Thomas 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…
25-5828 Joshua Devon Barrow v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-rahimi-test commerce-clause firearms-regulation historical-analysis probation-status second-amendment 1. Whether an individual's probation or supervised release status categorically strips them of Second Amendment protection under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)…
25-5830 Kortney Moore v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-inaction career-offender controlled-substances federal-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Defendants who have at least two prior "controlled substance offense" convictions qualify as career offenders under the federal Sentencing Guidelines.…
25-5837 Moses Crowe v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None A 2_ cVsA<riJr iwk C.oWM-1 TrbtediycJ LwW USSb 0eM4W\ ('A wksL CtWiiilV bJtaid'W, (Kc*& aP(A^ Word ^tw-kod oPujcivd -fcf ''otadudtot/ . Vi htA A-V>q…
25-5838 Kenneth Kennedy Shannon v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Q5 CLcctr4- AppeoU err Gund 0x/o~ IbcX l4-i oner £bcir+h ft- ho^nd nnen4r <Cl 04 no ? (J) b>tS Cbuu "^ <->P l^kppC/Xzl e^r Ctnd cx/~erlcoK peJ'i^ 16…
25-5841 Melvin Ray v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach crime-of-violence due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment substantial-effects-test 1) Whether the Fifth Circuit's interpretation of aiding and abetting bank robbery as a "crime of violence" under 924(c)(3)(A) sidesteps the categorica…
25-5844 Michael Leon Tittle, aka Michael Anthony Tittle v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Whether a plea agreement with knowledge of the law stated in a prior conviction, if the law stated a prior conviction used to enhance the sentence, un…
25-5847 Charlie Green v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure indictment-sufficiency penalty-provision rico-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the failure of the Indictment to include a reference to the penalty provision, 18 U.S.C. § 1963(a), applicable to the offense of RICO consp…
25-5848 Cedric Milburn v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process government-cooperation rule-35b sentencing-reduction There is a conflict among the United States Courts of Appeals regarding the proper interpretation of Federal Rue of Criminal Procedure 35(b). The que…
25-5853 Clarence Santiago v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-conduct federal-procedure sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation In assessing whether two defendants are similarly situated for purposes of § 3553(a)(6), are courts required to consider their actual offense conduct?
25-5857 Russell Kimble Jackson v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender criminal-procedure drug-felony first-step-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation 1. After the First Step Act enactment date of December 21, 2018. Is it true it now takes two or more "serious drug felonies" or two or more prior "ser…
25-5859 Wisconsin, ex rel. Paul M. Nigl v. Cheryl Eplett, Warden Wisconsin Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance postconviction-relief wisconsin-statutes 1. Whether the Wisconsin Court of Appeals unfairly blocked Petitioner access to his only remaining avenue for postconviction relief?
25-5860 Robert Matthew Bowman v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(4)(B) authorizes conviction upon proof that a phone containing child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspeci…
25-5861 Julius Rucks v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing drug-offense fentanyl misrepresentation sentencing-guidelines u-s-sentencing-commission Whether, under the U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1 (b)(13), a defendant's offense can be enhanced by four levels, when there is no evidence that the defendant misrep…
25-5862 Byron Reyes-Ayala v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP case-remand certiorari judicial-procedure precedent-overruling statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review This petition presents two questions. First, whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) should be overruled? Second, whether th…
25-5863 Jonathan Howard Kuykendall v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Whether a district court can direct a finding on a charged offense as a matter of law? Whether the invited error doctrine forecloses review where the…
25-5864 Rodney E. Barnett v. Arkansas Arkansas Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-writ brady-violation confrontation-rights due-process ends-of-justice witness-perjury 1. Does the "ends of justice " doctrine warrant abuse of writ defense by state be excused in this Sept. 4,2025 Arkansas Supreme Court Order? 2. Did …
25-5867 James Bradley Vlha v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearms-regulation gun-rights manufacturing-license second-amendment Whether the statute prohibiting manufacturing and dealing in firearms without a license, 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(1)(A), is constitutional pursuant to the S…
25-5868 Kenneth Kiprono Kirui v. Arizona Arizona Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-5885 Vasquez D. Hayes v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Arkansas Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-principles constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review legislative-intent statutory-construction (1) Isn't it true and/or fact, the due process embodied in the Constitution is guaranteed to criminal defendants? (2) Isn't it true and/or fact, no j…
25-5945 In Re Derrick L. Johnson Denied IFP court-jurisdiction default-judgment federal-rules-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-procedure procedural-void Whether the August 21,2025 proceeding of Respondent District court clerk Brian D. Karth and Respondent United States refusing to enter the default of …
25-5956 In Re Santos Cuevas Dismissed IFP constitutional-remedy double-jeopardy judicial-estoppel post-conviction sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment 1. May the Sixth Amendment in retroactive by the state allow remedy to initial and successive post-conviction proceedings, if so, may the right to ef…
25A159 Richard Rynn, et al. v. Craig Jennings, et al. Ninth Circuit Application appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias ninth-circuit record-correction Whether the Ninth Circuit's procedural actions, including deferring motions to correct the record and permitting premature briefing, constitute a viol…
25A30 Humberto Andres Maldonado v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice Fifth Circuit Application certificate-of-appealability federal-district-court habeas-corpus procedural-bar statute-of-limitations sua-sponte Whether a federal district court's sua sponte denial of a certificate of appealability based on the statute of limitations constitutes an abuse of dis…
25A74 Harriet Nicholson v. Bank of New York Mellon Second Circuit Application appellate-jurisdiction due-process federal-appeal non-judicial-foreclosure res-judicata substitute-trustee-deed Question not identified.
25M33 Simon Hessler v. United States Second Circuit Pending None