Conference: 2025-11-21
118 cases — 0 granted, 101 denied/dismissed, 17 pending
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-1078 | Kari Beck, Personal Representative of the Estate of Cameron Gayle Beck, et al. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) | circuit-split federal-tort-claims-act feres-doctrine military-service negligence-claims servicemember-rights | Whether the Feres doctrine's bar against servicemembers' tort claims is limited to injuries directly caused by military duties or should be narrowed/o… |
| 24-1126 | Avon Capital, LLC, a Wyoming Limited Liability Company v. Universitas Education, LLC | Tenth Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2) | district-court mootness personal-jurisdiction service-of-process subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-circuit | Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in assuming the District Court reacquired subject matter jurisdiction after a judgment's expiration without new claims… |
| 24-1159 | Jeffrey Clyde Pitts v. Mississippi | Mississippi | Judgment Issued | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) | child-witness confrontation-clause constitutional-rights courtroom-screening criminal-procedure trial-procedure | Whether the Confrontation Clause permits the use of a screen at trial that blocks a child witness's view of the defendant, without any individualized … |
| 24-1253 | Darrell E. Williams, Personal Representative of the Estate of Moneena Williams, Deceased v. Promedica Health Systems Inc., et al. | Third Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | administrative-law circuit-split cms-rule constitutional-interpretation healthcare-compliance medicare-regulations | Whether the CMS Rule 42 C.F.R. §483.70(n) is constitutional according to conflicting Circuit Court interpretations |
| 24-1293 | Brett Morris McAlpin v. United States | Fifth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-review circuit-split contract-law due-process plea-agreement sentencing-reform | Should an appeal waiver in a plea agreement be enforced when the plea agreement confers no benefit on the defendant in exchange for his guilty plea, t… |
| 24-1302 | MSP Recovery Claims, Series LLC, a Delaware Series Limited Liability Company, et al. v. Lundbeck LLC, a Delaware Corporation, et al. | Fourth Circuit | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rico drug-manufacturer foreseeability prescribing-decisions proximate-cause rico-statute | Whether physicians' prescribing decisions constitute an intervening cause in a civil RICO action against a drug manufacturer for overpayment of drugs,… |
| 24-6605 | Eric Samuel Tucker v. Texas | Texas | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | None | |
| 24-7142 | Saad Hanna v. Kimberly A. Nelson, M.D., et al. | Colorado | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-violation evidence-exclusion ineffective-assistance judicial-error jury-instructions racial-threat | Whether the trial court erroneously used prejudicial language suggesting defendant's guilt during jury instructions and whether defense counsel was in… |
| 24-7252 | Issa L. Lamizana, Jr. v. Louisiana | Louisiana | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | confrontation-clause due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-verdict ramos-unanimity sixth-amendment | Whether a non-unanimous verdict can be sustained under Ramos v. Louisiana when the record is silent on jury vote unanimity and what burden of proof ap… |
| 24-7331 | Jeremiah S. Farmer v. United States | Seventh Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-procedure constitutional-claims district-court federal-review habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation | Whether the district court's denial of habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 was proper after appellate review |
| 24-7370 | Jonathan Davis v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure implied-bias juror-disqualification jury-impartiality sixth-amendment | Does the Constitution require selected jurors to be free from implied bias and what standards should apply when assessing an implied bias claim? |
| 24-7374 | Chayce Aaron Anderson v. Colorado | Colorado | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights fourth-amendment particularity-clause search-and-seizure stare-decisis warrantless-search | Whether considerations of stare decisis impact the constitutional protections against warrantless searches under the Fourth Amendment's Particularity … |
| 25-208 | Delaware Trust Company v. Ad Hoc Group of Senior Secured Noteholders, et al. | Fifth Circuit | Denied | bankruptcy-code court-discretion estate-recovery monetary-judgment property-transfer value-compensation | Whether Section 550(a) of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code gives a bankruptcy court discretion both to order the return of transferred property to the estate … | |
| 25-234 | State Board of Election Commissioners, et al., Appellants v. Mississippi State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, et al. | Mississippi | Pending | None | ||
| 25-243 | Wes Allen, Alabama Secretary of State, et al. v. Marcus Caster, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | Pending | constitutional-interpretation equal-protection legislative-redistricting majority-minority-district racial-gerrymandering voting-rights-act | Alabama's 2021 congressional districting plan was preliminarily enjoined under §2 of the Voting Rights Act because it splintered one community of inte… | |
| 25-253 | Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, et al. v. Michael Howe, Secretary of State of North Dakota | Eighth Circuit | Pending | Amici (12)Relisted (2) | civil-rights implied-right-of-action private-plaintiffs section-1983 statutory-interpretation voting-rights | Whether Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, 52 U.S.C. § 10301, is enforceable by private plaintiffs through 42 U.S.C. § 1983, an implied right of acti… |
| 25-264 | Trevor Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC, et al. | Second Circuit | Denied | Amici (1) | administrative-law burden-shifting circuit-split employment-discrimination statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection | Whether a "contributing factor" in Section 42121(b) is one that "alone or in connection with other factors, tends to affect in any way the outcome of … |
| 25-273 | Wes Allen, Alabama Secretary of State, et al., Appellants v. Bobby Singleton, et al. | Alabama | Pending | None | ||
| 25-274 | Wes Allen, Alabama Secretary of State, et al., Appellants v. Evan Milligan, et al. | Alabama | Pending | None | ||
| 25-310 | J.A. Masters Investments, et al. v. Eduardo Beltramini | Fifth Circuit | Denied | diversity-jurisdiction due-process erie-doctrine force-majeure impossibility-defense jury-instructions | 1. Whether a federal court sitting in diversity may deny a party the right to present the equitable defense of impossibility to the jury—despite unc… | |
| 25-315 | Silas Salyers, aka Silas Salyer v. Clifford B. Walker, Personal Representative of the Estate of Evelyn Walker | Michigan | Denied | Response Waived | contract-clause deed-ownership due-process equal-protection property-rights trespass-damages | I. Did the State of Michigan by its judiciary violate Petitioner's due process and equal protection rights by ruling contrary to the binding rule of l… |
| 25-317 | Estate of J. B., et al. v. Howard Muser, et al. | New York | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process guardianship incapacitation judicial-proceeding | 1. Does an alleged incapacitated person have a constitutional right to, at a minimum, be present at her own guardianship proceeding? |
| 25-321 | Jeanette A. Stengel, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Dale E. Stengel v. Heartland Bank | Nebraska | Denied | active-concealment discovery-rule due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud-claims probate-rule | 1. Whether a state probate rule barring a personal representative from invoking the discovery rule for fraud claims, based on the representative's kno… | |
| 25-322 | Dimitry Kuperschmidt v. Jeff Angradi, Chief Probation Officer, et al. | Third Circuit | Denied | appellate-court custody district-court habeas-corpus procedural-default waiver | 1. Was the Pennsylvania appellate court rule on which the District Court relied to find procedural default a "firmly established" and "consistently fo… | |
| 25-329 | Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | attempted-murder court-influence fbi-liability federal-government human-rights terrorist-acts | Can the Federal Government get away with attempted murder, terrorist acts, and Human Rights violations on an American Citizen and use the Federal Gove… | |
| 25-330 | Eugene Cory Dingle v. James G. McGee, Judge of Dorchester County Family Court, Individually and in His Official Capacity, et al. | Fourth Circuit | Denied | 42-usc-1983 fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment guardian-ad-litem judicial-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction | 1. Whether a state judge who acts in the clear absence of subject-matter jurisdiction may nonetheless invoke absolute judicial immunity to bar a 42 U.… | |
| 25-336 | Elsie Franklin v. Kentucky | Kentucky | Denied | adequate-opportunity confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence-standard prior-testimony | In Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004), this Court held that, under the Confrontation Clause, an unavailable witness's prior testimony "is admi… | |
| 25-338 | Simon Ateba v. Karoline C. Leavitt, in Her Official Capacity as Press Secretary to the President of the United States, et al. | District of Columbia | Denied | Response Waived | content-neutrality first-amendment judicial-review press-access speech-licensing viewpoint-discrimination | 1. Whether the existence of unbridled discretion in a speech-licensing regime is per se viewpoint discrimination or merely assessed for constitutional… |
| 25-339 | Michael R. Atraqchi, et ux. v. United States, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | coerced-affidavits constitutional-protections due-process eleventh-circuit panel-rehearing rule-60b6 | 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit violated due process by simultaneously denying a Rule 60(b)(6) motion and a petition for panel rehearing, both based o… | |
| 25-340 | Stepup Funny, L.L.C., dba Stepup Funny, dba AA7 Days v. Newsweek Digital, L.L.C. | Fifth Circuit | Denied | arbitration-clause docket-sealing media-intervention precedent-interpretation privacy-expectation subject-matter-jurisdiction | 1. Whether the district court docket should be sealed because the lower court failed to properly weigh Newsweek CEO Dev Pragad's "spite" and "improper… | |
| 25-35 | In Re Raymond J. Fallica | Denied | Relisted (2) | None | 1) Mandamus 24-2346 ; issued legal order Respondent unlimited authority ignore statute facilitated altered jurisdiction occurred since 2004, Responden… | |
| 25-352 | Jasmine Younge v. Fulton Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office, Georgia | Eleventh Circuit | Pending | Response Requested | affirmative-defense civil-procedure federal-rules judicial-discretion pleading-rules summary-judgment | Where a defendant has filed an answer without pleading an affirmative defense, may the defendant nonetheless assert that affirmative defense as the ba… |
| 25-367 | Todd M. Harper, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Member of the National Credit Union Administration Board, et al. v. Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. | District of Columbia | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law agency-governance executive-authority federal-courts removal-power separation-of-powers | This Court in Humphrey's Executor sustained restrictions on the removal of Commissioners of the 1935 Federal Trade Commission, and it has since reaffi… |
| 25-373 | Kim Anne Farrington v. Department of Transportation | Federal Circuit | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | article-three due-process federal-circuit judicial-review merit-systems-protection-board separation-of-powers | 1. Whether the Federal Circuit's practice of issuing affirmances without opinion under Rule 36 in Merit Systems Protection Board cases unconstitutiona… |
| 25-386 | Vonn Capel, et al. v. Pasco County, Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | ad-valorem-taxation comity constitutional-injury federal-review property-rights tax-injunction-act | Whether the Tax Injunction Act and comity foreclose federal review of the regulatory scheme, when no "plain, speedy, efficient remedy exists" to prote… |
| 25-387 | Anita Louise Jackson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-liability device-adulteration food-drug-cosmetic-act medical-fraud patient-disclosure surgical-instruments | In what world do physicians have to disclose to patients that their surgical procedure will be performed with previously used surgical instruments in … |
| 25-397 | Delton York v. Scott Kupor, Director, Office of Personnel Management | Fifth Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights employment-discrimination neutral-reason prima-facie-case racial-animus summary-judgment | Assuming the petitioner established a prima facie case of employment discrimination, if the respondent offers evidence of a neutral reason for its ref… |
| 25-400 | PT Medisafe Technologies v. United States Patent and Trademark Office | Federal Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split color-trademark generic-mark statutory-interpretation trademark-law trademark-protection | Does the "generic name" requirement of the trademark statute, 15 U.S.C. § 1064(3), apply equally to all marks or is there a special rule for color tra… |
| 25-403 | Kenneth D. Anderson, et al. v. Crystal Estrada, Deputy, et al. | Fifth Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-violation excessive-force fifth-circuit graham-factors qualified-immunity rule-12b6 | The Fourth Amendment requires courts to evaluate excessive force claims based on the totality of the circumstances by sloshing through a "factbound mo… |
| 25-412 | Rolando Antuain Williamson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Pending | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | curtilage fourth-amendment law-enforcement privacy-expectation search-and-seizure surveillance | 1. Whether a "search" occurs when the government takes a purposeful, investigative act directed toward an individual's home and curtilage, regardless … |
| 25-414 | The Sunshine Group, LLC v. City of Dana Point, California, et al. | California | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | constitutional-violation due-process ex-parte notice-requirement property-rights regulatory-taking | The City of Dana Point "red tagged" Petitioner's motel and then had a receiver appointed to oversee its rehabilitation without ever providing notice o… |
| 25-415 | Haywood Jackson Mizell v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | due-process foreclosure-auction holder-in-due-course mortgage-fraud property-rights right-of-redemption | 1.Whether or not a mortgagee is required to "Surrender the unseparated mortgage and promissory note instruments of debt if full payment is made." 2.W… |
| 25-431 | Ealaila Conard v. Chanel, Inc. | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | ada-discrimination employment-law informed-consent job-related-standards medical-privacy medical-treatment | Did the Court create conflicts in the law by failing to be guided by the common-law rule, well-established public policy and the long legal tradition … |
| 25-447 | Mark Schena v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | compensation-scheme criminal-liability healthcare-referral kickback-statute medical-marketing statutory-interpretation | Whether paying a healthcare marketer a commission when a physician independently makes a patient referral and receives none of the compensation qualif… |
| 25-450 | Paul W. Parker, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Curtis John Rookaird v. BNSF Railway Company, a Delaware Corporation | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | adverse-employment burden-shifting clear-and-convincing-evidence personnel-action protected-conduct whistleblower-protection | Whether AIR 21's affirmative defense is satisfied where an employer proves protected activity played only a limited role along with non-protected cond… |
| 25-453 | Stephen K. Bannon v. United States | District of Columbia | Pending | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived | committee-authority congressional-subpoena criminal-intent due-process statutory-interpretation willful-conduct | Whether "willfully" in 2 U.S.C. § 192 requires the government to prove the defendant knew his conduct was unlawful. Whether the proper composition of… |
| 25-454 | Ismael Bimbow v. United States | Second Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | fourth-amendment independent-source-doctrine probable-cause search-warrant suppression-hearing warrantless-entry | 1. Did the District Court err in refusing to conduct an evidentiary hearing to determine the legality of the warrantless entry into Petitioner's apart… |
| 25-455 | Thanh C. Tran v. Liberty Mutual Group Inc., et al. | Massachusetts | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-review due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment petition-clause trial-errors | Whether a state appellate court violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause by deeming properly preserved trial errors waived without meani… |
| 25-461 | Edward Mangano v. United States | Second Circuit | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | criminal-conviction fiduciary-duty government-official honest-services-fraud official-action political-influence | Whether an official in one government may be convicted of honest services fraud when his only alleged "official action" was using his "tremendous poli… |
| 25-469 | Heriberto Carbajal-Flores v. United States | Seventh Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge firearm-possession noncitizen-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1) Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5)(A), which prohibits firearm possession by all unlawfully present noncitizens, is unconstitutional on its face underth… |
| 25-50 | Mike Fitzhugh, Sheriff, Rutherford County, Tennessee, et al. v. Bradley Patton | Sixth Circuit | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | article-iii civil-procedure class-action jurisdiction mootness standing | Whether Article III permits a plaintiff with moot claims to continue a putative class action based on the possibility that a future class-certificatio… |
| 25-503 | Matthew D. McMaster v. Arthur McCracken, et al. | Georgia | Denied | Response Waived | bankruptcy-clause bankruptcy-code federal-preemption lease-termination residential-lease state-court-ruling | 1. Whether the Bankruptcy Clause of the United States Constitution and 11 U.S.C. § 365(e)(1) preempt a state court ruling that a residential lease and… |
| 25-5143 | Mary Lynn Taylor v. Michigan, et al. | Michigan | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | contractual-obligation due-process economic-liberty employment-rights property-interest school-denial-period | Did the implementation of Michigan's School Denial Period create an established property interest, and/or an economic liberty interest for Appellant, … |
| 25-5187 | Shantell Lewis v. Hernan Castro, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | administrative-tribunal civil-rights constitutional-law federal-preemption judicial-immunity veterans-benefits | 1. Does State Judges have Jurisdiction over Veterans Benefits? 2. Does Absolute Immunity Apply when a judge has acted criminally under color of state… |
| 25-52 | Terence Clark, Director, Prince George's County Department of Corrections, et al. v. Jeremiah Antoine Sweeney | Fourth Circuit | Judgment Issued | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | AEDPA exhaustion-requirement fourth-circuit habeas-corpus merits-standard party-presentation | The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) prohibits federal courts from granting habeas relief on any claim alleged by a habeas petiti… |
| 25-526 | Laura Beny v. University of Michigan, et al. | Sixth Circuit | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split discrimination-evidence honest-belief-doctrine jury-trial-rights summary-judgment title-vii | Whether federal courts may apply the judge-made "honest belief" doctrine to grant summary judgment in Title VII cases when: (1) this Court's unanimous… |
| 25-5316 | Feifei Gu v. Michael Sher, New York City Police Officer, et al. | Second Circuit | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | abstention-doctrine civil-procedure constitutional-rights federal-intervention judicial-comity state-interests | In a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 setting, when a federal court is asked to stay the enforcement of a State Court's Order in a civil case initiated by private par… |
| 25-5389 | Steven Pitts v. New York | New York | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing factual-findings jury-trial prior-incarceration sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial applies to factual findings regarding the length of a defendant's prior incarceration and the date o… |
| 25-5575 | Kevin Don Foster v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-split federal-appeals habeas-corpus judicial-review state-prisoner | Whether the Courts of Appeal may dismiss an appeal by a state prisoner on habeas review when a circuit judge votes to grant a certificate of appealabi… |
| 25-5609 | Jackie Kavaskia McMillan v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Pending | IFP | appeal-waiver district-court illegal-sentence jurisdictional-challenge plea-agreement sentencing | While "jurisdictions appear to treat at least some claims as unwaivable" via an appeal waiver in a plea agreement, this Court has not yet decided "wha… |
| 25-5620 | Terry Duane Qualls v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Pending | IFP | appeal-waiver categorical-approach controlled-substances-act due-process plea-agreement sentencing | Whether an appeal waiver applies when the sentencing judge advises the defendant that he has the right to appeal and the government does not object. |
| 25-5686 | In Re Francisco Rodriguez Ruiz, Jr. | Denied | IFP | None | WL v\oV Vvvxo Wo -Vc Ao AUe^ of V VoVCB .CM 'S . K'kA C\VY\ CK CaA ^-CVA , O'-* v\V\ <A ■ 'S>1'£ KoO j^([k u^r -tu; AvmcIc^ oji^ DtSabh-ltA kc-l v | |
| 25-5696 | Anatole Mbe v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Pending | IFP | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure legal-error plea-agreement restitution sentencing | Did petitioner's appeal waiver as part of his plea agreement preclude an appeal challenging the amount imposed for restitution on grounds that the gov… |
| 25-5700 | Patricia Ann Jackson v. John Xiao-Jian Qian, et al. | California | Denied | IFP | affidavit default-judgment judicial-error liberal-construction pro-se truth-in-commerce | Is truth expressed in the form of an affidavit? Is an unrebutted Affidavit fact? Is truth sovereign in commerce? Are pro se filings to be liberally… |
| 25-5701 | William Scales v. Hotel Trades Council of New York Local 6 | Second Circuit | Denied | IFP | arbitration-rights constitutional-violation employment-contract fair-business-practices freedom-of-speech union-representation | Did The Hotel and Motel Trades Council, Violate the Constitution of The United States of America, by not allowing Mr Scales the plaintiff, freedom o… |
| 25-5702 | In Re Justin Paul Sulzner | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights extraordinary-writ federal-intelligence injunctive-relief odni-operations religious-freedom | 1. Whether the 8th Circuit Appellate Court and the Iowa Northern District Court should have granted emergency injunctive reliefs and monetary damages … | |
| 25-5705 | Jua Smith v. Delta Barometre, Superintendent, Otisville Correctional Facility | Second Circuit | Denied | IFP | appellate-counsel counsel-disclosure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default writ-authorization | a. Whether petitioner is entitled to have his habeas corpus petition disregarded if habeas counsel was not acting on behalf of the petitioner; and fai… |
| 25-5709 | Fateen Groce v. Detective McGoldrick, et al. | Third Circuit | Denied | IFP | None | Question not identified. |
| 25-5714 | Abass Yaya Bamba v. United States District Court for the District of Colorado | Tenth Circuit | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts civil-rights due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion | 1. Whether a federal court may constitutionally dismiss a civil rights complaint solely for inability to pay filing fees, in violation of 28 U.S.C. § … |
| 25-5723 | Matthew A. Tobin v. Florida | Florida | Denied | IFP | None | Question not identified. |
| 25-5727 | Aaron Smith v. Illinois | Illinois | Denied | IFP | arrest-warrant constitutional-violation due-process investigative-alert law-enforcement-procedure probable-cause | Does the city of Chicago, Illinois violate the Constitution by using an investigative alert opposed to a proper warrant when there is no exigent circu… |
| 25-5728 | Jesse M. Skinner v. R. Lee, et al. | Ninth Circuit | Denied | IFP | None | 1 1/1 Mm it ><o»n {✓) c\ JjUmo 0^ S l^3y Al/«*VAZJ AS Cl vj^iAO£ A Al/34_4#tH |
| 25-5729 | Raylon Browning v. Georgia | Georgia | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance pretrial-incarceration pro-se-representation speedy-trial | Whether the trial court violated Browning's Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial by failing to try his case within two complete court terms after h… |
| 25-5733 | Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Jesus Valdivia, Police Officer, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | Dismissed | IFP | access-to-court appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection | Did the Appellate Court wrongly dismiss the appeal because, although the orders did not end the litigation, they prevented the Plaintiff from litigati… |
| 25-5735 | Cheyenne Fink v. Arkansas | Arkansas | Denied | IFP | None | • roay t pk-asc be_ qrm-W Q p<Kco/<sT) tT) CLocSe, ) c*ri& 1 e_4- CL cv&e. Acv^^c^.c^ pe have • EC Oi%K -fha.4- leoavV pieeS-e have nn^rcy ojp ^ys«a… |
| 25-5736 | In Re Ahmad Aljindi | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-due-process federal-circuit judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct mandamus-relief obstruction-of-justice | 1. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, led by Chief Judge Kimberly A. Moore, violate its mandatory duty under FRAP 27 and … | |
| 25-5738 | Mark H. Wilson v. Florida | Florida | Denied | IFP | appellate-review brown-v-sanders capital-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment harmless-error | Where the trial court in a capital case allows the State to present and argue an invalid aggravating factor to the jury in support of a death sentence… |
| 25-5739 | Rade Q. Zone v. Youtube, LLC, a Subsidiary of Google LLC, et al. | Ninth Circuit | Denied | IFP | None | Question not identified. |
| 25-5741 | Jerome Curry v. Terri Wallace, Warden, et al. | Fourth Circuit | Denied | IFP | None | Question not identified. |
| 25-5742 | Zachary C. Crouch v. University of Tennessee | Sixth Circuit | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure constitutional-law de-novo-review freedom-of-speech sovereign-immunity state-law | The questions presented for review include whether state sovereign immunity can be and should be applied to unofficial acts and the Constitutional ri… |
| 25-5871 | Isaiah Stacy Alstad v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance summary-dismissal | QUESTON NUMBER ONE: Whether the district court abused its discretion by Summarily Dismissing Ground One, Conflict of Interest claim and did the Eight… |
| 25-5877 | Samson Diamonte Xavior Smith v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure harmless-error non-elemental-facts presentence-report sentencing-review shepard-documents | Whether a reviewing court may properly rely on non-elemental facts in presentence reports and Shepard documents when conducting harmless-error review … |
| 25-5878 | Detrayous D. Curry v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-conviction drug-offense federal-schedule sentencing-guidelines state-law | Whether the definition of a "Controlled Substance Offense" for purposes of U.S.S.G. §4B1.2 includes a prior state law conviction for a cocaine offense… |
| 25-5883 | Leonard James Tate v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment hotel-search law-enforcement marijuana-search probable-cause scent-tracking | Whether a law enforcement officer's untrained and uncorroborated tracking of marijuana odor through a multiunit hotel, without canine assistance or in… |
| 25-5892 | Daniel Jacob Werk v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure district-court federal-rule judgment-of-acquittal ninth-circuit rule-29-motion | Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in upholding the district court's denial of Petitioner's Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 29 motion for judgment of … |
| 25-5893 | Frederick M. Hill v. Angela Stuff, Warden | Sixth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim fourth-amendment knock-and-talk procedural-due-process sixth-amendment | 1. Should the "one fair shot" and procedural due process require the court of appeals to notify a petitioner that an appeal and briefing schedule is … |
| 25-5896 | Shawn Travis Paschal v. United States | Fifth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure imprisonment reasonableness-standard sentencing-review supervised-release | Whether sentences of imprisonment following the revocation of supervised release should be reviewed for reasonableness or plain unreasonableness? |
| 25-5897 | John Richard Burch, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | None | 1. WHETHER THE FIFTH AND SIXTH AMENDMENTS PROHIBIT A FEDERAL COURT FROM BASING A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT'S SENTENCE ON CONDUCT WHICH WAS ABANDONED BY THE G… |
| 25-5898 | Jeremiah Bobb v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | child-witness constitutional-rights evidentiary-error ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strategic-decision | A child-witness's initial interview with the authorities was recorded and the child un-equivocally stated that the Petitioner did not sexually assault… |
| 25-5899 | Michael Keith Marechale v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure invited-error jury-instruction waiver | "Courts of Appeals have stated . . . under the 'invited error' doctrine that a party may not complain on appeal of errors that he himself invited or p… |
| 25-5902 | Ramon Simpson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability circuit-split credibility-determination evidentiary-hearing section-2255 sixth-amendment | Whether, in light of a profound and acknowledged circuit split, a district court may deny a § 2255 hearing by making a dispositive credibility determi… |
| 25-5904 | Lawrence Ray v. United States | Second Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actus-reus criminal-statute enterprise-definition knowledge-requirement rico-conspiracy sex-trafficking | 1. Whether, in a RICO conspiracy prosecution, 18 U.S.C. §1962(d), the government must prove the existence of a de facto enterprise that affects commer… |
| 25-5905 | Antonio Valle-Ramirez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-law criminal-appeal fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 25-5906 | Alfredo Ramon Cerda v. W. Z. Jenkins, II, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights extradition-treaty international-law mexico-us-relations speedy-trial treaty-interpretation | Whether the government is prohibited from extraditing a person to Mexico under Article 7 of the U.S. Mexico Extradition Treaty, when the prosecution f… |
| 25-5913 | Rashun Rafael Suncar v. United States | Fourth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-court-judgment circuit-split controlled-substances drug-statute federal-interpretation state-law-interpretation | 1a. Whether a court of appeals may disregard an unpublished but considered judgment of Pennsylvania's intermediate appellate court interpreting its ow… |
| 25-5917 | Thomas Avery Drum v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure district-court-authority judicial-discretion new-trial-motion rule-33 weight-of-evidence | When a criminal defendant files a timely motion for a new trial under Rule 33(b)(2), what is the scope of the district court's authority to grant a ne… |
| 25-5918 | Tommie Lee Page, aka Tommie Page, aka Tommy Page v. Mississippi | Mississippi | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure habitual-offender indictment-amendment sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1) Whether the Mississippi habitual offender amendment to Page's indictment was illegal and void since the motion to amend Page's indictment was not f… |
| 25-5921 | Frederick L. Brewer v. United States | Seventh Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acquittal criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-discretion sixth-amendment | Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted … |
| 25-5922 | Victor M. Hernandez-Carrasquillo v. United States | First Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court evidence-sufficiency rule-29 sentencing | Whether evidence was sufficient to justify the district court denial of Rule 29 of the Fed. R. Crim. P. Whether the district court committed reversib… |
| 25-5924 | Lennard Rashard Monroe v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure participant-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission | Whether a customer can be counted as a participant for purposes of U.S.S.G. §3B1.1(b)? |
| 25-5925 | Tracy Jenkins v. United States | Eighth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-ban | Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a crime punishable by more than one year v… |
| 25-5927 | Chase Russell Downey v. United States | Sixth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | None | The questions for the Court are whether, under these circumstances, the District Court erred in refusing to grant a continuance of trial and leave to … |
| 25-5930 | William Maxwell v. Albert Thomas, III, Warden | Fifth Circuit | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | administrative-remedies exhaustion-doctrine first-step-act habeas-corpus judicial-review sentencing-credits | I. The question for this Court is whether disputes regarding the calculation of an inmate's earned First Step Act time credits, enabling the inmate to… |
| 25-5937 | Timothy Simms v. Jerry Spatny, Warden | Sixth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aedpa constitutional-review habeas-corpus judicial-prerogative legislative-limitation separation-of-powers | I. Whether the Habeas Corpus provisions of the AEDPA, constitute a legislative usurpation of the Judicial prerogative to issue a Writ of Habeas Corpus… |
| 25-5938 | Manuel Santiago-Cruz v. United States | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arlington-heights-framework civil-rights criminal-law discriminatory-purpose legislative-intent racist-origins | Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 25-5944 | Chockie Lee Hightower v. United States | Fifth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-law federal-statute firearms-possession interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 25-5947 | Darrell Wickware v. United States | Fifth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split elements-comparison robbery-definition sentencing-enhancement taylor-precedent | I. In Taylor v. United States , this Court announced a categorical approac h to recidivism enhancements in federal sentencing. See 495 U.S. 575, 602 (… |
| 25-5951 | Ronald Tai Young Moon, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus prejudicial-evidence sealed-transcripts | 1. Whether denying access to sealed ex parte transcripts, essential for proving actual innocence through alibi witnesses and third-party perpetrator … |
| 25-5954 | In Re Michael Albert Focia | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause due-process federal-jurisdiction gun-control-act private-sales second-amendment | 1. Does the district court's application of the Gun Control Act, 18 U.S.C. section 921 and following, to apply to private arms sales on the secondary … | |
| 25-5961 | Eva Marie Gardner v. Maryland | Maryland | Pending | Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | concealed-carry due-process full-faith-and-credit interstate-travel second-amendment self-defense | 1. Does Maryland's prohibition on carrying a handgun without a state permit, as applied to an interstate traveler with a valid Virginia concealed carr… |
| 25-5989 | Chian Chiu Li v. Apple, Inc. | Federal Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | enablement negative-limitation patent-law specification-requirement statutory-interpretation written-description | Section 112(a) of Title 35 requires that a patent include a specification containing "a written description of the invention ... in such full, clear, … |
| 25-5992 | In Re Roger Larry McCluer | Denied | IFP | capital-murder constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining | 1. WHETHER OR NOT COUNSEL'S ADVICE TO PETITIONER, TO FOREGO A TWENTY (20) YEAR PLEA OFFER, WHEN THE STATE THREATENED TO RE-VISIT THE "CAPITAL MURDER" … | |
| 25-6001 | Charles Chad Giese v. Edward Borla, Warden | Ninth Circuit | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance miranda-rights prosecutorial-misconduct | I. Did Trial Counsel Render Ineffective Assistance by Failing to present Evidence About the Psychological and Physical Effects of Methamphetamine and … |
| 25-81 | Lois Jochinto Orta v. United States, et al. | Sixth Circuit | Pending | circuit-split district-court-discretion extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether, as four circuits permit but six others prohibit, a district court may consider disparities created by the First Step Act's prospective change… | |
| 25A182 | Morgan Joseph Langan v. Chip Davis, et al. | Arizona | Application | constitutional-protections due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines petition-rights republican-form-of-government | Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits local governments from imposing excessive fines that violate constitutional protections and deny citizens' righ… | |
| 25A212 | Crystal Stranger v. Cleer LLC, et al. | Second Circuit | Application | appellate-review constitutional-rights domain-transfer due-process judicial-procedure preliminary-injunction | Whether the Due Process Clause prohibits a district court from compelling a party to testify through preselected deposition excerpts while barring tha… | |
| 25A249 | Feifei Gu v. Michael Sher, New York City Police Officer, et al. | Second Circuit | Application | access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-rights first-amendment judicial-restraint pre-emptive-injunction | Whether a state court's pre-emptive injunction barring a litigant from filing future lawsuits violates the constitutional right of access to courts | |
| 25M34 | Juan Antonio Pizarro v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | Pending | None |